Neil Lennon was in no mood to pull his punches on the subject or Rangers alleged tax evasion for a period stretching over a decade at his press conference yesterday. Asked if winning this season’s SPL by less than Rangers 10 point penalty would devalue the achievement he said, “If we do win it and people want to throw that at me, I will have plenty to say about devalued titles over the years”.
Peter Lawwell strongly rebuffed suggestions that Celtic were in a mood to show solidarity with Rangers should they lose their tax tribunal early this week and Celtic marked the card of Rangers’ political schemer, Alex Salmond, who tried to tell the world how Celtic fans felt about the issue.
While Neil Lennon was keen to focus on tomorrow’s important SPL game against Hibernian, he dealt with questions on Rangers without flintching. Asked about “financial doping” he said, “doping is a sporting term for cheating”
Adding, “In athletics, if you are caught doping you are banned. Alberto Contador got stripped of his Tour de France win in 2010, so there are precedents.
“It’s all hearsay and hot air at the minute. I don’t want to comment on it until all the results and all the findings are out. But if it has had a direct effect on me in my playing days, I will come out and say something at that time. As it is now, it hasn’t been proved.
“They are in administration for a reason and I am sure you guys will get to the bottom of it. It’s not my business, not our club’s business, but it will be my business if it has affected me as a player, or previous managers, and has denied us titles and trophies in the past.”
Conspiracy theorists who have tried to convince the world that Celtic and Rangers have been involved in some mutual preservation pact in recent years will be forced to reflect on the accuracy and consequences of their confounded allegations. As always, our club will only prosper with unity. Persistent attempts to rip it apart will only cause further damage.
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Are the administrators DUMB and DUMBER?
Its not that remarkable that they want cousin signed when they have already paid him in advance and they are about to cancel lafferty/healy/aloookos contracts.
Jobo Baldie says:
18 February, 2012 at 14:24
aye
Duff and Duffers comment regarding contact with HMRC just this morning.
Shoulda bin..
“Never.. BORROW.. ..
Sorry aboot that.
“Ready,when you are, C.B.!”
Kojo
Saint S @ 13.43
Good article.
AMacP certainly stepped up to the plate.
when in doubt mention Dave King.
WATP – What Airport Travelator Photo?
http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=2lm2y3d&s=5
Administrator DISAPPOINTED not to sign COUSIN. Wtf?? He s an accountant in a club who dodged taxes and unpaid millions….
You would thing that after Whyte, they would want someone genuine and trustworthy to come in but no….they appear to want former director Paul Murray and Dave King (the man who has serious tax issues in South Africa). Crazy and desperate.
Courtesy of Lennybhoy…
Apparently the Green Brigade have been busy. They’ve left funeral cards all over the underground system for the huns to read on their way to ibrox today :-))))))
Ego has brought them down, esp mintys: we all know that.
He craved the big prize above all (circa tenner, succulent lamb time). 1967 ate at him, as did out 60k stadium.
Thing is, there’s ego aplenty in this game, without question, incluing Lawell’s.
He will see the names through history that we hold in high esteem, e.g. Stein, McNeill (esp for 1988 imo), MON, Fergus. They all stopped a rot, and now PL has the chance to destroy their rotten history. Keeping moral high ground coupled with the law, when Murrays EBTs are shown to represent doping and cheating, I think he’ll come through, probably with McBride’s guidance, to expose our losses, financial, titles and lucrative automatic CL group places, and wipe out their cherished 9 in a row, 2003, 2005 and everything else they cheated us and other teams out of.
Eye on the prizes, Lenny, hands on the throat, Peter, and join the list of rot stoppers!
Hail hail!
Think not thing..sorry.
Duff & Duffer are clearly playing to the audience.
“HMRC and I have been in regular contact during the last few weeks”
The above is technically correct. They sent me a VAT bill and I paid it.
BTW – Re. today’s crowd – just wait two weeks. Sna aff a dyke
Hail Hail
Saint Stivs says:
18 February, 2012 at 14:17
‘Duff and Duffer administrators live on Shortbread.
* new information overnight.
* HMRC want the club to survive.’
Yeah. They also want their money.
This ‘development’ from HMRC is, in my opinion, not news at all.
HMRC genuinely do want all businesses to continue but that doesn’t normally mean doing any deals in relation to the AMOUNT that is outstanding. Perhaps there may be a suggestion that they may be given time to pay. But in those circumstances there would be additional interest charges levied. In addition HMRC would have to be satisfied that there is a definite likelihood of such a business being able to meet such a repayment plan.
I think.
Jobo
The delayed transmission on BBC Alba is on at 7.30 tonight.
It`s Dundee United v St Mirren. Rugby is on at the usual 5.30 slot.
Why would HMRC treat Hearts and Them differently? Romanov should be having a word with the tax collector.
Successful business people are savvy- hence success..
No business person would invest MILLIONS before taking over..
Dawwyl struggling…
Wee Dawyll sounds like all his xmas’s have come at once,,,little hun toad!!!!
Hail hail
Delahunt and Dawwyll
Hit the nail on the head.
HMRC want to keep them open but were willing to wind up Hearts.
BECAUSE
If someone buys them, HMRC will get the dough or a proportion of what they are owed.
They won’t get that amount from Hearts. But Mad Vlad should be looking at court action over this.
Neil is spot-on in telling our cowardly & duplicitous hacks exactly what he thinks & calling those who have stolen titles…. ‘CHEATS’.
BOTH BARRELS, NEIL.
“We dont do walking away”
Give them a couple of weeks
and we are gonna have some crack with that
They never learn with their rallying cries or
statements full of bluster
April for the Big tax case verdict
Oh dear!
Anagram of the day number 2
No Jelly and ice cream for orcs = A Scorecard Conmen Fire Jolly
let’s debate who is to blame – pointless pointless pointless.
So Hearts threatened with a winding up order from HMRC,,, but Rangers are being kept alive with the co-operation of HMRC,,,,,is it possible that HMRC has buckled from all the political pressure they have been put under lately?????
Hail hail
if David Murray loses his knighthood then chico should get it for defending the indefensible.
Big Nan
thank you
thought it was just me ….
sitting in my office
singing “the huns are going bust”….”pass the parcel when the rangers die ” etc
all the more entertaining as my secretary is a blue nose
ibleedgreenandwhite1
They want their dough, just remember that every time you hear a move in this story
HMRC will do whats best for them to be paid, that is their first and only priority
Q. Exactly what difference does the “full house, biggest crowd in Britain” make in the grand scheme of thing when the ST money has already been banked (no sniggering at the back please) , merchandise and catering already been hived off.apart from a jolly old Nuremberg style sing song, how is this going to help them out the mire ?
OK solved – Craig Murray’s fault.
chico is clearly the head of the David Murray Loyal. Even jabba is questioning him, albeit with kid gloves.
Scottish journalism at its best.
Grettings from a bright but cold and windy Dublin in the green (Celtic goody). Excellent article Paul67. I guess the news has been coming so thick and fast that its been a case of reacting, but this is a very good indication of how Celtic plc (in profit) is playing a blinder against rangers plc (in administration) who are playing a blunder…or paying a bounder…
oops,they are singing it
stupid huns
Very good piece by auld Archie but his typewriter wasn’t so prolific when his team publicly and openly refused to sign Catholics.
Bartleys no playin. DAMMMMMMMMM
amadeus says:
18 February, 2012 at 14:45
How could they be anything other than stupid!!
It’s only a few days ago most of them noticed they were in trouble!!
C’mon give us Rule Brittania!!
Mon the other team…
Celtic hoody… Bloody smartphones…