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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I cannot remember Inspector Clouseau’s sidekick speaking Latin.
Thats all they got…Your honour.
DESSYBHOY on 9TH JULY 2017 8:50 PM
CRC will be a good person to ask he has just gone there for his holiday with the family.
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
SFTB
And we never knew where he’d spring from next.
Jimbo67
Craggy Island
Paul Brennan, Matt McGlone and Aberdeen supporter Ally Begg are all on the new CQN Magazine podcast which will be available tomorrow.
Our Hector Gotcha t-shirts are flying out the door in green and red and we have added colours to suit all the other supporters from various clubs who have requested.
You can get yours in green at cqnbookstore.com
Aberdeen fans have been ordering in unbelievable numbers, so respect to them.
These judicial reviews aren’t cheap.
Thanks to everyone for the info on Lanzarote well appreciated.
” I arrest you Sir Charles Phantom, the notorious pink Lytton.”
https://www.change.org/p/spfl-rangers-fc-to-be-stripped-of-14-league-titles?recruiter=149764020&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=autopublish&utm_term=autopublish
Treble Winning Captains 9.51pm
Stroke of genius getting the tee-shirt in all the SPL teams colours, I am in talks with the boss and wee boss if I can get that as my holiday tee-shirt
Keep up the good work
The HUNS cheated ALL of Scottish football
I should have wrote…..Tee-shirts in any Scottish teams colours
They cheated everybody
The truth might set them free……..in fact they are still stuck in the 17th century so probably don’t even know the truth
Gooood Evening CQN
Firstly, in the last conversation my Dad had, last Sunday, he was very clear, wee Jinky, best player he ever seen in his beloved hoops
Dessybhoy, sorry for late note – try Puerto Mogan in Gran Canary, my view :-) best of the Canary Isles
goodnight Timland
HH
16 Roads: Any chance you can get me a ticket for this year’s All Ireland football final? I really want to see Dublin win umpteen in a row:-)
Hope you are well.
Allmore nice one
Cb
Been to maspalomas when 9/11 happened we didn’t like it main issue was flying cockroaches and just cockroaches
Dia daoibh uilig
Could anyone forward me Paul67’s Email please? Much appreciated.
‘Mise BB HH
I’ve been wearing Everton pyjamas for 13 years – Rooney
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
I hope he washes them now that he’s resigned.
Oíche mhaith, a chairde. ‘5 Hill’ cycle for me mañana in 30+ degrees heat. Carvajal to Benalmadena.
Hasta le huego.
Stolen from Mark Cooper on twitter about pronunciation of our prospective new signing’s surname
Olivier is of Cameroonian descent so his surname is pronounced Aych-Em -Ar-See.
Think about it
Picked this up from Another celtic site , would love to know the answer to this . These are the people keeping the big lie alive . and responsible for the hatred towards celtic and the fans .
Who’s Behind The SMSM ‘No Appetite’ Mantra?
Since the Supreme Court made their ruling on Wednesday morning that Rangers were guilty of using EBT’s illegally, there has been a real concerted effort by most, not all, of the hacks in the Scottish Mainstream Sports Media to convince the public there’s ‘no appetite’ for the stripping of titles.
That despite various clubs, and their fans issuing statements to the contrary, and a number of social media and online polls all showing massively in favour of some sort of recourse.
To make their stance more convincing, they’ve asked to opinions of either conflicted individuals or those who stand to lose from any title stripping.
Ally McCoist, Gordon Smith are but two former employees of the Oldco who’s opinion has been sought, yet those who were cheated have been totally ignored.
BBC in particular are keen to reprint statements from Club 1872 and the chairman of Sevco but won’t even comment on the response from the Celtic Trust or Dundee United’s Arab Trust, both representing members who paid good money to see their respective teams cheated.
If Chris McLaughlin told us once, he must have told us a dozen times, the clubs have ‘no appetite’ for title stripping. Same as in 2012 he told us the clubs would be happy to let Sevco into the top division. How did that work out Chris?
So, what I and probably many more fans would like to know, just who is behind this ‘no appetite’ agenda?
I’m sure we’ve all got our own ideas…..
DALLAS DALLAS WHERE THE HECK IS DALLAS
Hec-tor:))) Got to be his nickname-…
Starry Plough , very good .
Just home from a brilliant three day Festival, TRNSMT on Glasgow Green. Great 3 days with extended family. Radiohead my highlight.
The Amazons and Twin Atlantic fae Glasgow were excellent. Need to listen to both bands more.
Dallas Dallas
If you and others interested in having a better understanding of the flaws in the commissioning of LNS and the Commission itself then the index at
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6uWzxhblAt9dnVHSl9OU3RoWm8/view?usp=sharing
leads you through the narrative.
There is another one on the UEFA Licence process in 2011 which will be just as time consuming to read, but will provide the same rewards in terms of understanding the issues.
Timing and method of release under consideration.
Lets see how many follow the LNS narrative.
jimtim on 9th July 2017 11:19 pm
Some force is obviously at play that editors are obeying.
About 30 months ago the Daily Record journo/sub editor was provided with a narrative similar to that in my previous post. He had it laid out on a plate broken into 4 paras but still found reason not to publish.
Then the TOG Report has been ignored by all but Speirs, so its either the Masons or pictures of some press personnel molesting goats, although fear of the mob should not be ruled out.
Auldheed. 12.32am .
As always thanks for your reply .
Auldheid,
Whatever is driving the Omerta that has polluted the MSM, the result will be the same.
No further action.
It would take a massive protest from every corner of the Scottish football world to alter that position.
With ST money already banked, there is little chance of any protest succeeding.
Bunkers will be fortified.
However, Celtic will be made the scapegoat for damaging the game. It is already being done, by incorrect reporting of Celtic’s stance and non reporting of the truth.
Should this continue or escalate, then I believe that we would have a case to present to UEFA citing the conditions that the club has been placed and the difficulties we would have in safely conducting our business.
Regular fans of my posts(!) will recognise this as the DC option.
Cowiebhoy on 9th July 2017 5:59 pm
Can I ask another stupid question
Why is it only trophies won from 2001 for the cheats ?
Their scheme as run from 1998 was already found to be illegal – a fact kept from LNS
Surely any review must go back to the beginning
So what was also won from1998 – 2001/2 ???
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The first ebt (DOS was used in Sept 1999 for Moore and there was no side letter either although scheme was unlawful without one. So season 1999/20000 would be start date. That takes in their title and Scottish Cup win in 2000 before the sainted MoN arrived and matching their wages put a stop to their nonsense until 2003 when EBT use accelerated as they moved from DOS/wtc ebts to BTC ebts.
The cost of matching their wages of course resulted in the downsizing of Celtic’s in 2004 who under Strachan did well to win 3 titles but they went on another spending binge in 2008 as the BTC determinations (estimates of tax owed) arrived in the post and the bank crash happened.
Had they kent then wit we ken noo. :)
AULDHEID
Martin Samuel references the Supreme Court verdict in his Daily Mail column today,not for the first time either.
I doubt much will be heard of from the SMSM so hopefully one of the Southern hacks will have a go at it. Though I think that will only happen if and when HMRC get tough with an English club.
thomthethim for Oscar OK on 10th July 2017 12:44 am
The media can present any twisted version of reality they like but it does not change reality.
Celtic have enough info as result of Res12 research apart from BTC decision and consequences to go legal if they want.
I watched a video of Fergus earlier mocking the rule that said clubs could not take their cases to court. He was right and he won. https://twitter.com/CelticRuleOK/status/883779046903042048
The cost to Celtic of not fighting the club’s corner whilst not measured in £s this season will seriously damage the idea that Celtic are more than a club. It is an idea that does make us different in a good way.
That idea is priceless.
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on 10th July 2017 12:51 am
I don’t think Alex Thomson is finished either and Speirs is being brave in Scotland. Will others join him?
Auldheid et al .
Good lads.
Keep up the good fight.
This is about good sound FAIR governance of the game.
The level of self interest for Celtic FC is , to my mind , marginal.
Celtic should take the lead here although there is very little self interest in it for the Club.
Some of our supporters , yes .
Our Cub should take one for the team.
The jury is no longer out .
Time for action.
Cliche CSC
Good grief, things must be really tight at Level 5 when Jim Traynor has to ‘moonlight’
on the new Domestos advert!
Mind you he stays very much in character!
https://youtu.be/Gj4Q5QnnS1Y
Hail! Hail!
Terrymac
For F- SaKE.
cR EhULTIC IS.
hUGE kEEVINS WAAAS…. SEEING IT WITH
a SHAME he wasn’t as hardore as the lightweight Brigade.
Hugh is twisting the knife now.
Hardcore Uproar.CSC
Cornish terror group claims responsibility for fire at Rick Stein’s restaurant
Ellen Manning
Yahoo News UK9 July 2017
A Cornish terror group has claimed responsibility for firebombing a restaurant owned by Rick Stein, claiming it is part of a campaign for Cornish independence.
The Cornish Republican Army (CRA), dubbed the ‘Ooh R A’, says it carried out the attack in June as part of a renewed campaign to prevent the “ethnic cleansing of the people of Kernow” and also said it has a member who is “prepared to pay the ultimate price in the battle for Kernow”.
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It’s a funny old world.
G’night fholks.
Some real Stickey icke.
Respect
Who needs informat……
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXIyFM60uPg
Logical.
CELTIC
Oh yeah. Some might Say
Ralston and even better coming through,
Get the ASF to feck. self centred SCUM. I mean the SFA.
CELTIC Ta.