The Daily Record today report the contents of a document drawn up after a meeting between the SFA, the SPL, the SFL and Sevco suggesting “punishments for Rangers for the Employment Benefit Trust tax dodge used by Sir David Murray’s regime to pay players”.
The document details that Rangers would be stripped of titles and trophies ‘won’ by the club while they fielded illegally registered players, described by the Record as “the harshest ever seen in football”.
While Rangers EBTs had been in the news for close to two years, it was Celtic Quick News who first raised the question of Rangers players being illegally registered in an article on 22 February this year. Clubs are required to note all payments players receive in connection to football with both the SFA and SPL as part of the player registration process. Failure to register EBT payments is completely separate to the legality or otherwise of how the EBT was conducted, and until we raised the issue, there was no question over player registration, and no possibility of league titles being stripped.
Two weeks after Celtic Quick News brought the matter to public attention the SPL appointed solicitors Harper MacLeod to investigate the case. The subsequent report concluded Rangers had a case to answer.
There are a number of alarming aspects to today’s Daily Record report (the newspaper appears to have the main story but don’t notice its relevance):
Sevco should not be involved in any discussion around the guilt of Rangers or any subsequent consequences. Fan power in recent weeks had shown that we are not a Banana Republic. Disciplinary issues are subject to establish procedures. Any attempt to meet with a party acting on behalf of Rangers to agree an outcome with both the investigating body and the appeals body, before an independent inquiry takes place, contaminates all who participate.
Scottish football has independent judicial procedures for dealing with serious breaches of rules. Executives from the SFA and SPL have absolutely no authority to set-aside these procedures, nor are they appropriate people to act instead of the independent procedures.
Stripping Rangers of titles and trophies if they are found guilty of cheating is not a punishment; this simply reflects the legitimate winners of past trophies. When an athlete is found to have cheated to win a medal, his punishment is not the withdrawal of the medal, which is an obvious consequence of being caught, he will also face a sporting or financial penalty, often a ban.
There seems to be no end of attempts to subvert sport in Scottish football. There must be no backroom deals, not even if they bring a barrel load of trophies to Celtic, we cannot be bought-off by bling. Independent disciplinary procedures must take place.
Although Rangers failed to register players EBTs, this matter is separate from what the Record calls “punishments for Rangers for the Employment Benefit Trust tax dodge used by Sir David Murray’s regime to pay players”.
If the First Tier Tribunal (remember that?) rules that Rangers broke tax rules the club could yet face football disciplinary procedures for failing to pay social taxes.
Last month we reported that the SFA was set to remove independent judicial oversight from the game as its existence was getting in the way of their plans for ‘Rangers’. Although the Daily Record seem to be oblivious to the fact, they appear to have found documentary evidence that this is the case.
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The Ramsden’s Sovvy Ring Cup and the Shopacheck Challenge Trophy could be joined at the hip…
The Man United v Amazulu game is too good to be forgotten.
DontPatmadug on 18 July, 2012 at 19:30 said:
MinceCFC @CelticMindedcom
The Lawwell Conspiracy… http://oi48.tinypic.com/214a5if.jpg
That is a work of genius.
Is it true that John Brown eat’s horses?
I ask because I seen his biography in EK Central Library- John Brown: They Eat Horses Don’t They?
Makes me wonder: can midgets ride horses?
So if Sevco win the Ramsden cup that will make them the most successfull Sevco ever!
Re Siamese twins. What if you’re straight and your twin is gay, and you are both joined at the hip?
How would that work?
Is marching to the hun like the rain dance was to the Red Indian?
marchuntilyoudropCSC
Che Guevara was a dwarf
tinyfightingmenfromcsc
wonkyradar on 18 July, 2012 at 19:33 said:
Is it true that John Brown eat’s horses?
I ask because I seen his biography in EK Central Library- John Brown: They Eat Horses Don’t They?
Makes me wonder: can midgets ride horses?
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Shetland ponies
Classic Young Ones joke
Band playing
Rik tells hamster SPG the band are Amazulu
SPG responds – ‘That right? Ahm a Glaswegian!’
U
SFA should just wipe out the last twelve years of RFC existance.
rangers F.C. 1872 – 2000
Date of death: 27th August 2000.
Green Lantern (((((0))))) on 18 July, 2012 at 19:35 said:
Re Siamese twins. What if you’re straight and your twin is gay, and you are both joined at the hip?
How would that work?
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reacharoundcsc
Dontpatmadug
Brilliant!
Linfield getting humped 3-0
Shame I would have loved to stuff those bandits
SSN describing Huns as Scotland’s most successful club….I suppose they are if you discount financial doping , referee interference and the playing if ineligible players
leftclicktic on 18 July, 2012 at 19:23 said:
Be-have yourself……
In physics, the twin paradox is a thought experiment in special relativity, in which a twin makes a journey into space in a high-speed rocket and returns home to find she has aged less than her identical twin who stayed on Earth. This result appears puzzling because each twin sees the other twin as traveling, and so, according to a naive application of time dilation, each should paradoxically find the other to have aged more slowly. However, this scenario can be resolved within the standard framework of special relativity (because the twins are not equivalent; the space twin experienced additional, asymmetrical acceleration – when she switched directions to come back home), and therefore is not a paradox in the sense of a logical contradiction.
Do the twins brogues age at a constant rate or does the stationary twins brogues fall apart first.*
*This hypothesis excludes marching season.
Doc is Neil Lennon on 18 July, 2012 at 19:34 said:
So if Sevco win the Ramsden cup………….
they can take the trophy to their nearest branch and see how much they can get for it!
Harry Harry, Harry Harry, Harry Harry Ramsden.
That’s for the older Sellick fans btw.
Shetland pony. I smoked some of that one time.
Good stuff.
Green Lantern (((((0))))) 19:35
Re Siamese twins. What if you’re straight and your twin is gay, and you are both joined at the hip?
How would that work?
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Could get tricky if they both share the same erm……..’equipment’
Jeez…I thought I had problems………
Meself and herself weren’t desperately keen to be around for the wonderful jubilee festivities at the beginning of June so we took ourselves off to Boston. The Celtics were in the middle of the play offs for the basketball finals against Miami Heat. There was much excitement about the place and the locals buses joined in by having the digital destination sign at the front of the bus alternate with the slogan “GO CELTICS”. Now that we are on the brink of a new season surely this is an idea Glasgow Corporation could adopt. Can’t see there being any problem with it!
Dontpatmadug 19.30
SUPERB :)))))
The bould bhoys. Aye and I used to think Oor Wullie was a character in the Sunday Post!
….PFayr
Thing is I guess the neanderthals in their media and support will peddle the nonsense that the daft wee new club is part of the old daft national discrace that was the old muck, mind them?
I just remember the moonbeans and the utter bull poop that club produced, people talk of the tarnished ‘honours’ they were given, me? I just remember where they were fairly refereeed. Europe, European cities and the tax office.
EN
….PFayr on 18 July, 2012 at 19:43 said:
No doubt when the courts are finished with them, and the SFA eventually do their duty, SSN will apologise for misrepresenting the facts ……. We won’t hold our breaths…….at the end of the day, they are proven cheats, have no reputation, and have no club ……. Not bad for starters
Sky Sports understands that Salim
Kerkar has jetted out to Charlton’s
pre-season training camp and is
hoping to earn a permanent deal.
The 24-year-old playmaker is among
those to have headed out of financially-
troubled Rangers.
He has spent the last two years on the
books at Ibrox, having first linked up
with them on a trial basis in August
2010.
Anybody watching the RHS flower show at Tatton Park?
That pink Chinese Trumpet has a lovely bloom…
PF –
Re the defhunct klub’s alleged ‘success’…..
They’ve never won the Big Cup…and they never will.
(They know this, and it hurts………)
Can we no sign Kerkar?
He would make a useful dribbling cone during training.
Green Lantern (((((0)))))
hahahahaa. Jings. Crivvens. Help ma boaby !!!!
Kevtic on 18 July, 2012 at 19:44 said:
HeeHaaww!
The former rfc have no honours, their history of cheating proves this, they won hee haw, as we have seen the SFA thought they needed a ‘strong rangers’ and though that for decades, so it was the filthy carcas of a rancid club was ready to be laid to rest.
In fairness to them the real proof that they were not assisted by the SFA will come in their European trophy tally, thats got to be a good thing given they are ‘the most successfull club in the bit of Govan thats no Benburb.’
Re
Statistically, 6 out of 7 dwarfs aren’t happy.
As a dwarf, I was teased at school for my lack of height and stupidity. The teacher would often scold the class by saying, “that’s not big and not clever”.
Doc
I just feel the current system surrounding ‘crime & punishment’ is simply not working…… returning to the old system won’t solve the problem, but will be a more effective deterrent……we will always have criminals, but we shouldn’t make life so cushy for them when they are caught…..they get more justice nowadays than their victims….that can’t be right…
The empty, arrogant bombast of the defhunct klub will echo for a while but History will consign them to their rightful place………………..
a disgrace and an embarrassment to Scottish football.
http://a2.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/c38.0.403.403/p403x403/255359_400508913330180_1558211941_n.jpg
Obviously there are no gay footballers.
DOUBTS surround Saturday’s proposed
pre-season friendly between Hawick
Royal Albert and Rangers.
Talks between the troubled Glasgow
club and the Scottish Foorball
Association are continuing with a view
to Ally McCoist’s men obtaining a
licence to play.
And without the licence the weekend’s
glamour match at Albert Park can’t go
ahead.
Although Albert officials remain
confident it will be played, those at
Ibrox are more pessimistic although
they have stressed, if cancelled, the
game would be rearranged for a later
date.
lol!