Newco chairman, Dave King, this evening issued a remarkable statement. Not for the first time he referenced Celtic, but on this occasion, he became the first person inside the game to put the Stripping of Titles Rangers won during their EBT and DOS years on the table.
His statement also blankly contradicted an earlier statement he made, when he asserted, “I follow the logic of the argument that if we lose the tax case then we probably gained some competitive advantage.”
With the tax case lost, and many fair-minded agreeing with his earlier sentiment and calling for titles to be stripped, however, today King said:
“Whether the scheme was in place or not, or whether it survived tax scrutiny or not, made no difference whatsoever to the playing squad of the Club during that period and hence had no impact on the performance on the pitch.”
That’s:
“If we lose the tax case then we probably gained some competitive advantage.”
Followed by:
“Had no impact on the performance on the pitch.”
“Competitive advantage.”
“No impact on the performance.”
In 2012 he even issued an apology and suggested “commercial reparation to the other clubs” was in order.
“Reparation” because “if we lose the tax case” we “gained some competitive advantage”.
In five years he moved from saying Rangers gained a competitive advantage because of the illegal EBT use, and commercial reparations to other clubs was due, to denying any wrongdoing whatsoever.
He should also have read the Celtic statement more carefully. King today said Celtic, “have attempted to influence the footballing authorities to alter its historic football honours”.
Celtic’s statement called merely for a review, “We are sure now that the footballing authorities in Scotland will wish to review this matter. Celtic awaits the outcome of their review.”
The altering of football honours issue was not put on the table by our club – you can thank Dave King for that thought provoking notion.
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** hun on hun action
FrannyB
May Jim Farrell rest in peace
What part of our land did he come from, may I ask?
RIP Jim Farrell
HH
Could they possibly be the same club?
Would it be a good idea to do some crowd funding to get the talented people in our support to make banners in time for the start of the season.
The more we raise the more ee produce, then we can distribute them among other clubs.
I wonder how long we’ll have to wait for a decision from the SPFL, they wouldn’t try and spin this out to try and take a bit of heat out the situation, would they?
Mon the Celts.
May Jim Farrell Rest In Peace, another good Tim gone to Paradise..
Mon The Hoops:)))
FRANNYB…
Condolences on the loss of your friend,and to all his loved ones.
May Jim Farrell RIP.
Gordon Smith on Shortbread,
“It’s OK cos Oldco won titles before and after EBT period. We also had helicopter Sunday and exciting league.”
“No advantage because they won titles before EBTs.”
The man is an embarrassment and a headcase, he must have been swallowing hair dye.
Team for Linfield game?
Confusing strips. Shamrock in the bumble bee kit;-)
Gordon; Lustig, Simunovic, Sviatchenko, Tierney; , Brown, Armstrong; Rogic, Forrest,Sinclair; Dembele
Rovers shoulda scored Celts sleeping at FK
SR free header from FK drifts past Gorson’s RH post
KT cross cleared as we threatened
James cuts in and shoots weakly past post
Kieran showing up well
Curler with outside of the foot.Becoming a bit of a signature move by wee Forrest
Craig saves a speculative lob feom half way. Touch n go
GOAL LUSTIG
Big Mik makes it one nil, classy pass for the goal
1-0 Celtic Big Mik
Nice goal ML.
James slid ball into ML path as he ran into box and he slid it into corner
Weak shot from James with left foot
Good run by Jamsie and finish by ML. Jamsie in the mood.
Easy peasy for big Mik
KT again shining
SR keeper out at feet of SS after flick from MD
RONBACARDI
Hail hail to you and your better half on a momentous day.
I hope we are all still around to quaff a beer on your behalf when you’ve doubled your record.
HH
Mon the hoops ;-)
Mostly attacking on our right, as someone posted, wee Forrest looks up for it
Sid- the vermin are trying to make this a hun v Celtic issue, a generic banner with all teams crests on it , to display at all grounds might work.HH
BRT&H 1158
Wow…
Another two minutes and you would have delivered that at High Noon.
Bad timing,but stunning information.
Jozo has had enough of the rough tackling, love it.
Christ, the commentary on Premier Sports. I feel guilty for slagging Andy Walker…
James again. Finds MD Cut back eventually cleared
Watching with sound off-makes sense. 111 section seem to be enjoying themselves, haven’t stopped bouncing.