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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The Lord.
Logical
Get out of that God forsaken place with a point, and CELTIC will have done so Well.
Did Ralston play the full game?
Defo Emilio Time.
Kieran is so Wholehearted he needs to be protected these days. :))
Big Lustig needs to up it. :))
Rinsing out the Style.Junglism.CsC
Whats going on Fake Naw?
Nasa Nazi City
Music is Music
Flynnstigators Temple @ the Centre of TIME is worth checking out.
Being on a Kack shift now, I was able to watch a fine Western from Denmark.
Eric Cantona he has a Role to play.
Eric looks likely to me to be an actor.
The Barton Dude, I think he is being Brutally Honest. Respect for that.
That Film, The Salvation, was hardnosed and didn’t soften things….. basically it said it like it was back then.
Brendan Wants that Treble but this Horror place on Saturday. BIG SETUP.
If I was King I’d have every SFA Referee out pronto.
Muse is Muse
Loving the Movie titles:
Gone with the Wind is my favourite.
When all is said and done…
The MSM reporting of this has been what can only be called a disservice.
Compare the commentary of James Doleman with Andrew Black of the BBC. This reveals many things: The audacity and disrespect of Lazy Mainstrean Journalism, and how it is designed to to divide and sell. It also reveals that Andrew Black is not a journalist, not a man and not to be trusted. He is an aspiring Andrew Marr, a Celebrity Tool who sets agendas, if you expand this MO beyond Fitba, one must ask how misinformed are we about more serious shit?
PJBhoynyc,
Wow…..
Whilst yer here, whats your opinion of DJT?
You are over there and know a lot more than anyone over here.
HH Scooby Doo
Hey Pete,
People thought he was an outsider (Washington DC). He was, yet is not.
Currently a turf war going on amongst the elites and their agencies. A elite civil war for want of a better expression. Yes he is a narcissist, reality TV presenter, and had a mandate, and had to work with mobsters to get property developments in Manhattan and Atlantic City. Now he is dealing with mobsters in DC. It seems as if he is wilting, but he is crazy like a fox. Not as crazy as Hillary though. Turf war involves good and bad FBI/CIA people. Interesting Times.
PJBHOYNYC,
Thanks for the RESponse.
So many vehicles ootside the big hoose last night.
Newcastle and West ‘am raided.
I’m sure,…
Celtic is Pure.
Twitch&Brainstorm.
Petec
If you have the time, and are interested, search YouTube for ‘George Webb’. He provides sourced material of America, as it is, and how it is not being investigated.
Some, as should be expected, ridicule him, for being an ‘internet bampot’. But his evidence is sourced.
Moving beyond him. The EU, the U.K. and all European countries are all vassals of the US elite. Not the people. The elite. When people recognize this, all policy decisions make sense. DJT is the joker in the contemporary pack…
G’night.
Peace.
PJ,
Thanks for the heads up.
I hope Pedro isn’t undermined by Derek Johnstone – I would get John x 2 Greig and Brown into that Dressing room.
Sky gtf out of Scottish fitba. Paul Cooney is sadly missed from Clyde.
A wee message to the Scottish Sports MSM….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESy-Z8vqMrE&sns=em
The Big guy AT…..
He says Work Hard. Rewards will come.
Get cracking Celtic.
G’night
Sorry. AT has only ever encouraged Celtic….to go to work to win and to Win as well as possible. Donegal Styleeeee.
Good Morning.
Still on movies?
Witness for the Liquidation.
Anyway, to other matters — all this activity by HMRC visiting several clubs on the one day and various addresses in France, deploying 180 officers plus French Colleagues all for a supposed £5Million fraud?
Hmm something doesn’t seem right there to me and I think there must be far more to this than is being revealed at the moment. I am also not that big a believer in random coincidence, something is not quite what it seems.
And now for something completely different.
If you have 18 minutes to spare have a look at this video. You will recognise the venue, possibly relate to the way it was built, the methods used and the ordinary people involved, but thereafter there is something really quite sinister here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jWdZS3ATPc&t=124s
Movies
(Assets ) frozen
The Skinstones
Ya Ba Daba Dob !
Avatarrier…
Blubaker…..
The Craft…
The Brotherhood…
Death Becomes Hun…
Lies Flies and Naked Flag Poles….
……….oot.
20,000 league’s under the sea.
(Thats were mrk2 should have had to start from.)
The Men Who Stare at Goats
HH jamesgang
Morning Bhoys and Ghirls,
it’s nice being a Tim…..naw…It’s feckin magic !
Movies/Film ( sorry if these have been mentioned during the night but I haven’t read fully back yet)
The Dirty Dozen ( 11 hun players and any Ref)
” WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION” ( Fantastic old black and WHYTE movie, with the late great Charles Laughton playing the Barrister….superb Courtroom drama, with many twists)…which might remind you of what’s going on right now ?
HH
They call me Mr Fibbs
Good morning CQN from from another cold, clear and dry day in East Devon.
Good performance from the Bhoys last evening. Some agricultural tackles from the Huns, so what’s new.
National Lampoon’s European day out to Malmo
Cool hand dupe
Craigy’s billions
The Dodgy Knight ( of the realm)
TALLYBHOY on 26TH APRIL 2017 10:38 PM
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.
TALLYBHOY,
I posted right after watching the ” miss match on u tube”, about young Johnstone, as did others.
I posted that he was full of tricks and pace like Wee Paddy Roberts……IF we lose wee Paddy ?…..step up MIchael johnstone yer on next son !
HH
Good morning friends from a dry, bright, slightly breezy and still chilly East Kilbride.
I know Murray is not on trial…for the moment ?
But if he ever is…….will two of the charges be…” Tax Evasion…and FACT Evasion” ?
Reading his feeble and weak attempts NOT to answer questions honestly yesterday showed him up to be far removed as the so called big powerful ” don’t mess with Murray ” type, that he enjoyed during his days in the chair….”electric chair” ?
I would not be surprised if at some point Findlay reminds him that he’s UNDER OATH ?
HH
Any more info on why so many Cops at the house of Mordor yesterday ?
Was it a “Trial Run” ?
Did some dress up as Celtic fans….and the rest practised in kickin the sh#’t out of them just cos they wore the Green ?
HH
BREAKING: Following their investigation into Joey Barton’s betting activities the SFA have granted the English midfielder a UEFA licence.
For A Few Dollars More
TopHun
The Muppets
Deliverance
Word of The Day(Inspired by the Sevco takeover – again!)
cozen /ˈkʌzən/
verb
1. to deceive
2. to cheat or trick (someone)
Derived Forms
cozenage, noun
cozener, noun
Word Origin and History for cozen
v.
1560s, of uncertain origin; perhaps from French cousiner “cheat on pretext of being a cousin;” or from Middle English cosyn “fraud, trickery” (mid-15c.), which is perhaps related to Old French coçon “dealer, merchant, trader,” from Latin cocionem “horse dealer.” Related: Cozened; cozening; cozenage.
KTF
The Dirty Cozen ……………………