When asked on Twitter four years ago how Rangers were granted a licence to play European football in season 2011-12 when they were overdue with HMRC, SFA chief executive, Stewart Regan, replied, “If someone sends you a bill you disagree with then you do not accept it was overdue”.
Any business is allowed to dispute a tax demand, but former Rangers director, Donald McIntyre’s evidence at the High Court in Glasgow yesterday was clear, Rangers had accepted liability for unpaid PAYE and National Insurance claims in connection with the Wee Tax Case (DOS) in 2010.
If, as Regan suggests, Rangers misrepresented this fact to the SFA Licencing Committee in their March 2011 application, the Association now have action to consider.
If you have been around this story for the best part of the last decade you will recall a number of us writing on the perilous state of Rangers finances while the club was under the control of Sir David Murray. This was robustly disputed by the club at the time, but in his evidence McIntyre noted that, under Murray, the club appointed an insolvency expert to ensure they were not trading illegally.
Just one month before the sale of the club to Craig Whyte in May 2011, in an email produced by Craig Whyte’s counsel, Donald Findlay, Mr Mike McGill of Murray Holdings, advised that “it would appear forecasts for club have deteriorated, we will breach bank facility”.
Asked by Findlay if “HMRC were coming for the club and were after blood”, McIntyre said “Yes.” The directors of Oldco Rangers omitted this sentiment from their public comments at the time.
Rangers were a football club running a perilous financial strategy from the 1990s until liquidation was eventually confirmed in 2012. They established a mindset, not only in their own support, but in parts of ours too, that spending money you couldn’t afford on casino football was the only acceptable way clubs should behave.
You still hear the echoes of those times, from Willie Henderson’s request that Newco spend £50m, to comments a lot closer to home when Celtic fail to win a football game.
Please remember that while it is OK to report evidence discussed at court, you should not comment on matters pertaining to the charges against Craig Whyte.
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Invasion of the title snatchers
Jurassic (Ibrox) Park.
Last wan fae me…..
Going for 55?
Its all gone pete tong!
Grand Master and Commander
The untouchables………………………………. (Hopefully not)
The Hun-Ger Games.
How to lose a title in 10 ways
Any of the Asterix movies.
HH
Really, really enjoyed that. Well done the wee Bhoys. Great display.
Some of that youth team have big futures – Michael Johnstone & Aitchison for sure, but I really like Mcilduff. Beginning of the second half he accelerated down the left and fired over a peach of a cross for somebody – Johnstone? – to put wide with a diving header. Would have been the goal of the night.
Well done lhads – great to see such talent coming through and playing proper football.
Two things – that churlish tw*t of a commentator who said something at the end like “aye, they should enjoy the night, because this is going to be the high spot of their career for some of them.”
Don’t know if he was hurting and indulging his spite and bile on our Bhoys, or he was referring to both sides. Doesn’t matter. With an attitude like that he should never get another gig again. What a comment to make at youth football level!
The other thing is – why were the wee huns wearing betting-sponsored jerseys? I thought that, at this level, all booze and betting labelling was a no-no.
Ocht why no
12 Angry men
Lost in Administration
Raiders of the lost warchest
King Con…..
Barton Fink (s it’s OK to bet on your own team to lose)
I’m out :)
NN & HH
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_You_Zombie_Bastards!
The Usual Suspects
Apocalypse Now………….Hopefully
Very well done the young Hoops.
Totally dominant and never in danger.
Several exciting talents. Particularly liked Ralston, McIlduff, Miller, Nesbitt and Johnstone. The rest were also excellent!
Only downside was goalie Connor Hazard having to be treated for hypothermia.
HH!!
TTR :))))))
Misery
TTR LOL!!!
Grand Illusion.
Fair play to Gordon Banks and Geoff Hurst for their work with Dementia.watchin the news there and both say Nobby Stiles, Ray Wilson and Martin Peters have no memory of 1966.
HH
One especially for minty…
The knight of the living dead.
The Lying, the Witch and the Warchest
One of the, very, few positive things the commentator/co-commentator(?) said tonight was that at a recent international tourney the one player who stood out and who was head and shoulders above everyone else was Mikey Johnstone.
Very talented bhoy who will go far.
HH!!
TTR
You have won.
The rest will be inferior movie titles. :))
https://twitter.com/rangersfc/status/854634189999620096
Halliday phoning round the houses. Embarrassing.
Straight Outta Liquidation
EBT
Peter Lawwell hates them as much as we do.
Remember this wee interview ;))
https://youtu.be/WC4rlHlJxew
The Replacements
Crouching Tiger Hidden Assets
Sally doesn’t live here anymore
All the wrong moves
Al;y and the Chipmunks
Bears and Teds Bogus Journey
Billy Maddish Hun
Brokeback Snake Mountain
The Don’tCare Bears Movie
Charlie’s Web
Dude, Where’s my club?
Dumb and Dumberer: When Sally met Craig
The Englishman who went up a hill but came down with a club
Too Few Good Men
Saturday Night and Hunday Mourning
Despicable Me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8PHkxa9O7c
Would like to see Ralston and Aitchison play at doomdome on Saturday.
I think they are both ready.
TTR
Freudian slip – ‘opposing’ religions. Not other, opposing.
Says it all in one sentence.
HH jamesgang
Thrown his Toy out the pram Story
MWD
Get out of Africa Dave
MWD
thetimreaper on 26th April 2017 10:44 pm
https://twitter.com/rangersfc/status/854634189999620096
Halliday phoning round the houses. Embarrassing.
The huns would prefer PPI fone call than that nomark…