The football industry is busy with its twice-a-year transfer jamboree this week but there will scarcely be a player, manager or executive in the country who isn’t daily checking on Harry Redknapp’s on-going court case into his alleged tax arrangements.
Harry, of course, is one of the game’s popular figures, everyone likes him, including me, but his evidence yesterday, that he’s been told “The problem with you is you’re named Harry and you have a cockney accent”, will have the nation pondering if he’s another victim of the systemic prejudice against white, wealthy, indigenous-named, senior and successful people from London. There must surely be a support group he can join.
I’m sure Harry’s innocence will be established but the law and tax authorities are right to pursue any doubt that exists in the running of the game, without fear or favour. Where appropriate, pursue the guilty through criminal, not just civil, courts. Only then will the innocent be sure of a level playing field. Lock ‘Em Up, as a Cockney may observe.
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Morning/evening all.
Lennondinho18 (@CelticNewsAtTen) says:
27 January, 2012 at 08:47
Where you been?
Ozzy PM gets shown on the big screen to a big round of boos, can’t see it happening at WImbledon. Murray started ok but loses his second serve game. I always thiink he starts his Grand slam semis and finals like Celtic do their European games of late – a goal down before everyone’s in their seats.
Audio only for the game on Sunday???
Who’s got the rights for the game then??
Bummer..
Friday Frank –
Nah, nah, nah you’re pulling my plonker mate. You’re pulling my plonker!
Just read this article on the express
http://www.express.co.uk/football/view/298235/Russians-are-ready-to-swoop-for-Jelavic
Andy McInnes, you have really outdone yourself here with this investigative report. The second from last paragraph reads:
“Rangers meanwhile are unlikely to pursue their interest in latest trialist, Nigerian Michael Uchebo . The 6ft 6in striker currently with Dutch minnows Eredivisie trained at Murray Park yesterday after failing to win a deal with Stoke City earlier this month.”
How can anyone who claims to be a football “journalist” not know the difference between a football club and a football league is beyond me.
Mort
Mort- staggering ineptitude from McInnes.
EC67- How are you doing bud, will need to tie up arrangements for Sunday, I’m heading out now but will catch up later.
HH
PS Is Narrowboat Tim not berthed up with Vera Downend?
Tom
CTV don’t have rights for the cup games. They have to buy them match by match, if they can. If the agent has sold exclusive rights to someone else then there won’t be live video available.
:-(
And, despite being told of McCoist’s lack of interest in the African last night, managing director Hans Soentjens told journalists:
“Rangers really, really want him.
“We have reached a verbal agreement with them over a price. We are simply awaiting the outcome of a medical before completing the deal.”
What a carry-on, abusing the good faith of folk just to generate a few chip-wrappers.
Some say that when holidaying in Canada he had Maurice Judas Johnston flown in to polish his shoes, and that he has John Greig answer his fan mail.
All we know is he’s Victor Wanyama.
Wee hun sidekick in office,giving me dirty looks
for my non stop whistling and singing of the Victor
Wanyama song.
Going to keep it going ,till he cracks.
Ah, the good ole Narrowboat Tim, esteemed poster of this parish.
I hope he’s all right, and not got hisself scuppered.
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Lennybhoy – not home until 15th Feb so will miss the diet huns game , two laddies going tho .
What can I help you with cuz ?
Hail Hail
Morning, All.
For the benefit of those who can’t access rangerstaxcase.com, here’s the latest offering:
MIXING IT UP WITH THE MEDIA
It appears that I have hurt Darrell King’s feelings. He took a few swipes at this blog last night on Radio Clyde’s Superscoreboard programme. We should not be too surprised for I have been less than complimentary about him. All is fair in love and war after all. (For the record, I do think that he is the best of a very bad bunch). Having played a part in exposing the incompetence of the Scottish sports media pack, a counter-reaction against us is only natural. In particular, Darrell will be irked that I keep referring to his claim, made on live radio, that Rangers players held side-letters demonstrating that the “loans” from the EBT never need to be repaid. This will, if true , prove to be the smoking gun in this case. (Well there “might be” a few more interesting pieces of information that Darrell has not told you about). Why would someone with such easy access to the facts get the interpretation so wildly wrong every time? It could not be just a cynical ploy, could it? To be seen publicly defending Rangers’ position, but privately understanding what has really happened? Perish the thought!
It would suit the likes of Darrell for this blog to become distracted from our mission to roll around in the mud. So, I will reply today and move on. However, we can expect more of these slaps as the facts of the case are revealed. We shall let the blog speak for itself in future.
For a journalist, Darrell seems to have a very short memory and must not be taking notes. Last night, he described as “complete and utter nonsense” the accusation that he sat on the tax story in April 2010 in order to avoid interfering with Rangers’ title run-in.
Perhaps Darrell will recall the following quote: “Untangling Rangers’ finances and breaking them down into layman’s terms for those who matter most – the club’s supporters – is not a straightforward task and much of the information this paper has obtained in the last two days was, understandably, retained until such times as the league championship was won as it was felt it would not serve any good to further muddy the waters when the team was on the cusp of the title”. 27 April 2010, Evening Times- two days after Rangers secured the Scottish Premier League championship.
Darrell might want to tell us who wrote this “complete and utter nonsense“? Of course, like several articles that Darrell would not want us recalling, the story is no longer available outside the Evening Times’ pay wall. Thankfully, google remembers lots of things. This text appeared under the heading: “Poison pill that killed the party – Evening Times | Sport | Editor’s Picks”. Who was the sports editor at this paper at the time? In another article ON THE SAME DAY, 27 April 2010, Darrell tells us “For the past few months, sources have spoken privately to this paper about the fears of what was coming“. Two days? A few months? I have no way of knowing which version is the truth.
When a sports journalist is willing to sit on the greatest story in the history of Scottish football for fear of upsetting a team’s momentum to the title, we know exactly where we stand and what to expect. To his credit, Darrell does not hide behind a fake love of St. Mirren or Airdrie, His colours are well and truly pinned to the mast. We can expect him to go down with this ship- defiantly inaccurate in almost his every utterance about the tax case since reviving his interest in the subject a few months ago. (His stories in April 2010 were actually very good. It was a rare example of decent journalism. The reaction to that work among his base must have stung him).
Rather than running down rabbit holes with those who have been demonstrated to be clueless in the unfolding of Rangers’ tax case, it should be easy to compare the work of this blog- my own and the fantastic work performed by readers- with that of the Scottish media. There is little similarity between our research & analysis and the lamb-fueled output of any one of the ‘professional’ organisations.
If anyone is in any doubt as to what drives business for Darrell’s papers, I noticed last night that there is a dynamic graphic at the foot of The Herald’s website. It displays intensity of interest in topics by the size of the text. While hardly a scientific or fool-proof tool, I suspect that it represents the relative interest in Rangers quite well.
Hail, hail.
Phil on wee Dawyll,posted last.
http://www.philmacgiollabhain.ie/an-illegal-tax-strategy/#more-2004night.
One set down and break down in second, same old, same old for Murray.
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Tom
I’ll be setting the recorder then as I arranged my optometrist’s appointment for 9am Monday. No, it’s not with Specsavers but maybe it should be..:-)
Dick Byrne
Thoughts and prayers with you and your family at this difficult time.
Phil
Tom
I’m onto you and your cross-border timekeeping. You are talking about 9am Qld time on Monday?
Rangers manager Ally McCoist has ended his interest in Nigerian trialist Michael Uchebo after just one training session but the striker’s club VVV Venlo say they have agreed a fee of £1m for the player’s proposed transfer to Ibrox.
I guess the guy did not fancy £5000 a week…
1. Tom McLaughlin says:
26 January, 2012 at 12:26
What is going on here?
Why am I being dragged into this kitalba-herodotus-magnus business?
What is it all about?
I have not posted as anything other than Gold Coast Tom and Tom McLaughlin for God knows how long.
Paul67 –
If I have posted as anyone other than the 2 names I mention in the past year or whatever, especially in the last few days which seems to be the issue here, I hereby request that you publish the details forthwith, or alternatively, if you can, please confirm that I have not posted as herodotus or magnus or nyone else.
This has gone on long enough. kitalba has been having a dig at me for weeks now with his obsession. I have hitherto ignored him, but tonight is the bottom of the barrell.
Paul, please can you clear this up once and for all?
Either clear me or shame me. Sorry to drag you into this, but I have to make a stand.
Thanks
You Lied again Tom, you just can’t help yourself can you. Oh and I do have the posts written by you which confirms it.
1.
Paul67 says:
26 January, 2012 at 12:39
Voguepunter, no, but that’s a good idea.
Tom McLaughlin, happy to confirm you are neither of the other mentioned identities. Confirmed.
Paul, I am not exactly sure how you can categorically state that, however you did not confirm that he has not posted under other guises in the past year or so?
Maguns for your information I have only one login into CQN, but somehow I don’t think you fully grasp what an IP address is. Feel free to look it up and educate yourself.
Now I’m sure Paul can confirm I only use the one login and the only IP address he will see from me are Brisbane addresses, unless of course I am on site and then it will change.
Tom I called you a LIAR again. That is not nice, however it is true. Aak Paul to confirm you are not a LIAR. You see Tom I keep my e-mails and I a hard disk full of crap written by you in all your guises.
Remember that day you came home from your very important family function and I apparently accused you of being a potato, which to my eternal disappointment I am not guily, (bummer) well did you ever remember the date, or the week, or the year, of that particular ‘very important’ occasion so as I can regurgitate the post.
Paul has rules on here about people getting personal but he has no rules about people telling the truth.
Raining this weekend Tom, no garden for me, I wonder what I’ll do to pass the time.
Did you know that Prince Myshkin, Edmond Dantès, Ignatius J. Reilly, Gold Coast Tom, all came to Australia in the same year, they all settled in S.E. Queensland, they all have an Australian wife whom they each took back to Scotland for a few years. They each have two sons and each had one son whom played for Cowdenbeath. They all had a dinner with Craig Levin in Edinburgh, they all at one time or another have called the away support scum or scumbags, all of them posted on the Scotsman, all of them posted on CQN, etc. etc. Now what would the odds of that be.
You ask why Tom. Simple mate… PAYBACK.
Kevin Williams petition update. HH
MPs are set to decide whether to debate a proposal for a fresh inquest into the death of 15-year-old Hillsborough victim Kevin Williams.
The meeting, triggered after 113,656 people signed an e-petition calling for a verdict over Kevin’s death to be overturned, will go ahead at 1pm on Tuesday.
City of Chester MP Stephen Mosley will make representations to a committee on behalf of Kevin’s mum Anne.
The three options open to the committee are rejecting the proposal, allocating time for the matter to be discussed at Westminster Hall or hearing a debate and voting in the House of Commons
thomthethim,
Got your e-mail last night, very funny.
The image of the Donegal earthquake is now all over facebook.
Árd Macha
Good morning from rainy Manchester.
We still trying to sign Molina from Betis?
Good to see Murray back in the match.
googybhoy
What’s the score I can’t get access from work?
Oh, morning all from a cold and extremely icy North Glasgow.
rangers can forget another Jellylegs bid…
West Ham are giving a trial to Panama central defender Roman Torres.
Manager Sam Allardyce is eager to have back-up despite signing George John from FC Dallas.
Bosnia striker Zlatan Muslimovic, 30, is also undergoing a trial after brief spells with Rangers and Sunderland.
West Ham have also expressed interest in Genk striker Jelle Vossen.
HT
Murray 1 set down
but is up 5-3 in the second
WGS
Just in case ——-
Andrea Caracciolo —— he has gone on loan to mighty Novara.
Warm and sunny -lovely day -way down south
1-1 good comeback from Murray, momentum swing now in his favour
1-1, Murray played that set as well as i have seen him against one of the top guys.Looking very strong,Djokovic looking a bit tired .
Sounds like Djokovic might be crocked…
It’s been said on here that Real Madrid have similarities to the Fc on the south side of the city. So I gave a chuckle when I read a comment on the Bleacher Report by Columnist Will Tidey……………………..
Mourinho’s men were swarming all over Barca like an army of battle-ready orcs, but we’d seen this part of the script before. We knew what was coming next.
So there you have it confirmed. There are Scottish Orcs and there are Spanish Orcs.
HH
‘ Brandi now alleges that they got together more than once and had a ‘week of fun’ last summer.
Asked to rate the 42-year-old’s bedroom skills she said that he is an ’11’ out of ten.
Brandi then collapsed into giggles ‘
– a wee update for anyone worried about whether hoopslegned Gerald Butler is as good in the ole sack as he is in the penalty box.
Kitalba
you’re harassing this guy, as one Celtic man to another would ask you to drop it, wont be doing his or your health any good.
HT
BBC text commentary of Murray game
another day another shambles.
Michael Uchebo has ended a trial spell with Rangers after just one day, according to the player’s agent.
The Nigerian striker, currently contracted to VVV-Venlo, arrived in Glasgow on Wednesday and trained at Murray Park on Thursday.
The Dutch club had told STV they had struck a deal with Rangers for the permanent transfer of the 6ft 6in player.
Uchebo though has cut short his time with the SPL side and his agent says his exit is down to a poor first impression of the club.
“Michael was invited to come over by Ally McCoist,” Uchebo’s agent, Tony Harris, told STV. “When he got there, McCoist wasn’t there.
“Michael did not enjoy his Rangers experience. He didn’t feel at home and wasn’t comfortable.
“The player informed Rangers he didn’t want to return to training. Michael will now look at other options.”
STV understands two clubs in Russia have noted their interest to VVV for Uchebo. The player’s contract runs out at the end of the season, but his club have the option to extend his deal by a further two years.
The 21-year-old has scored one goal in 10 club appearances this term, having netted eight times in total in 48 games over four seasons.
UC
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