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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O.G.Rafferty on 18 July, 2012 at 20:41:
Do you know what the supposed nuclear story that is still to break is all about?
Obviously, I don’t expect details – and I’m extremely patient on all matters relating to torture for the Huns.
Should have been second hand floodlight bulbs…
wonkyradar on 18 July, 2012 at 17:08 said:
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HH! I was just enquiring on here where you’d gone…
…..we’re always lookin’ for the mad missives.
Anyway…
…..I’d rather have a bottle in front of me,than a frontal lobotomy…
….whoa….too late.
OneFlewOverTheCuckoo’sNest CSC
Doc 20:39
Correct, I dont even know of this team you mention…
EN
Gareeee Cooper (The Producer One Awesome Suuper Dooper Trooper) – Turn up the Bass
I thought Harry Ramsden was the fish and chips guy. Naw? A cup in the shape of a battered sausage…can just see the FPLG wae a big sausage over his fat heid…a fish supper instead of a medal?
eldiegobhoy
Ask Paul 67 and Philmac to go on holiday with you,problem solved
EN
Weekend in Qatar ?
and another , Springfield Road
http://www.localnewsglasgow.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/GCC0151.jpg
O.G. Rafferty.
Actually that’s very acceptable and pleasing, to me at least. A slow, lingering, death sounds just like what the doctor ordered. We must not be seen to be cruel just because we can be :o)
Estadio Nacional on 18 July, 2012 at 20:50 said:
Original House Rocker…
Miki67:
I am one of those unfortunate individuals who suffers from depression.
Last few weeks I was particularly low. Didn’t want to burden anyone with mad nihilistic ramblings about the Earth being a lifeless ball of dung etc…when I’m down it just ain’t me…then you wait for time to pass…presto! I’m back like Daffy Duck on ketamine…anywayz we’ve all got our cross to bear & some of the stories on here are humbling…how is your health?
I wonder where the false flags will take the agenda now?
hamiltontim on 18 July, 2012 at 20:41:
You back? Get my updates?
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
Steinreignedsupreme, 20:47
I know it in essence and some details and some names but I am not sure, though I could guess, how all these pieces fit together. The devil is in the detail
I’ve got news for the blue ordure : you are right! We Tims are EVERYWHERE. Where I live is a Tim stronghold from ye olde Civil War days. Yer days are numbered…you are right. We ARE all out to get you,and it looks like we have. Even The Beatles had your number when they showed you up in ‘The Yellow Submarine’……..the blue meanies? That was YOU!
And now you have nothing,nowhere to go. You are DONE…….even Asda disnae want your blue pound…..remember the superstores are GREEN & WHITE.
Soon iPox will be repainted,and the ground re-consecrated by……take your pick…you know who we are…..and we’re in your tiny minds…..even when you sleep,we are working on you. Soon, even your favourite colour will be green,and you will be craving mint Aeros.
Yours,in apocalyptic conspiracy,Charles Green.(a.k.a. The Jolly Green Giant)
Hahahahahahahahahahahaha!
ElDiegoBhoy, 20:56
I feel the same though we’ve come so far so quickly it almost feels like an anti-climax to take a longer term view. The momentum will carry us along… stripped football titles, stripped royal titles, jail terms …
Given the day that’s in it I make no apology for going off on an excursion down Memory Lane. I realise nostalgia isn’t what it used to be but here goes. You see I reckon it must have been April/May 1966. If I’m right about that, then I would have been 5. It was one of those long,late, sunny evenings and I was playing football with my big brother and his friends on fields which in the name of progress have long since been concreted over and become a housing estate. I remember that my brother and his friends kept going on and on about a Glasgow Celtic player called Joe McBride. That is my very first footballing memory and since then the name Joe McBride has always had a mystical, even mythical, resonance for me. I think the reason I remember it is because it was then I became a tim. But my second footballing memory is not, unfortunately, May 1967, but May 1968. I remember watching in glorious black and white the European Cup Final between Benfica and Manchester United. And my abiding memory of that is that I was desperate for Benfica to win because I didn’t want United to emulate what Celtic had already achieved. Clearly, by then the Celtic bug had well and truly bitten, which is just as well because otherwise, like many in my family, I may have become a United supporter. The biggest irony of all, however, is that I have now spent the last 30 years or so working in of all places – Manchester! And of course I’ve been to Old Trafford and to the other great grounds in England and it is a reflection on me, rather than on those great clubs, but they do absolutely nothing for me. I would be better off bringing a good book with me, if only to allow my attention to focus on something. To get my footballing kicks, to be kept on the edge of my seat, I have to watch Whoever XI v Celtic. Joe McBride made me a tim all those years ago. God rest Joe Mcbride.
Saint Stivs on 18 July, 2012 at 20:54 said:
and another , Springfield Road
WOW
LOOKS FANTASTIC
Pardon me for being stoopid (no change there then ) but , with regard to TCFKAR(IL) , how can thems play a pre-season , fitness-acheiving , friendly at ANY time other than pre-season ? Unless they’re postponing it until next pre-season which might be a more achievable target ?
HH
Sanna
It will never quite rid us of the darkest hour of Helicopter Sunday but it will be a price worth paying to think that their grandchildren will be Celtic supporters
Sannabhoy
They shouldn’t be playing any games without a licence
wonkyradar on 18 July, 2012 at 21:00 said:
>>>>>>>
Sorry to hear you get gripped by the ‘black dog’. I’ve had bouts of the same thing…..things improved when I sorted out my drinkin’ and dopin’,but I still get down from time to time…..sometimes you just have to wait it out.
Present health? Difficult,but manageable.
Now,even the fags are gone……electric fag helpin’ to finally nail it.
Emphysema is a-knockin’……
But I remain happy,because my life today is good and that’s all anyone can ask.
Good to see you back on here. The more,the merrier,as the cretins implode!
HH!
PFayr 20:54
Weekend in Qatar?
I wouldnt wish that on any pals, its harsh…
starry plough 20:59
Thee original sooper trooper Gary Hooper, the producer….
EN
Saint Stivs on 18 July, 2012 at 16:08 said:
and the Tour D Glasgow has just started –
http://www.localnewsglasgow.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/DSC_9329.jpg
Ghuys:
Shortly going to be in the market for a new laptop, Sony Viao is what I aim to buy. Has anybody got a particular recommendation, looking to spend around £600?
Also a recommendation where to buy?
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
Lennybhoy…Supporting Neil Lennon and CFC until I die on 18 July, 2012 at 21:15 said:
Lenovo
sorted
ANOTHER SEVCO MEDIA GEM
Let’s not beat about the bush. There is a conspiracy against Rangers Football Club. Here’s how it works.
Stage One.
Celtic, moan, greet and complain about continual perceived injustices against their totally honourable club. So much so that there is a ref’s strike, so to shut them up, they give the chief culprit Peter Lawwell a post at the SFA, joining Celtic board member Eric Reilly.
Stage Two.
Everything is going splendidly. They now have a power base to f**k over Rangers anytime they like. However the secret is to have a C.E.O. that fit’s their objectives. Surprisingly, the top job at the SFA comes up. Was their an interview process, leading to a paper sift then election? I don’t think so. Step up Stewart Regan, former colleague of the Celtic C.E.O. and links to the Emerald Isle. Perfect.
Stage Three.
Let’s dig up dirt on Rangers and spread malicious lies through the Celtic minded media from the Daily Record to the BBC and then Radio Clyde. Rangers are defenseless, this is the perfect time for us to get them. Nobody is speaking up to defend them. The intelectually challenged hordes buy in to this shite and we have a vote by the SPL’s clubs fans to determine Rangers fate. We’re bounced out the SPL.
What about dessert? Good idea, let’s convince the SFA to use our lawyers to investigate Rangers alleged dual contracts. Guess what, they have a case to answer. GAME (nearly) OVER.
That my friends is a CONSPIRACY.
If you are a Rangers minded legal person, or persons, could you please get together and take these corrupt bastards to court. To Charles Green, if you are here for the long run, stop fannying about and stop giving these c***s free reign to do what they like and stand up to them. To the supporters organisations, let’s get protest marches on the go, get the Rangers media men on board. To the fans, keep the faith we can change the course of history if we stick together.
If we don’t, it could well be GAME OVER. WATP.
Saint Stivs on 18 July, 2012 at 20:46 said:
the go celticbus
Hi Saint Stivs. That photo of the old GW&G Glasgow Corporation Bus is asking to be photoshopped to change the Bus Number to 67… :-)
Yours in Celtic,
TB&F.
Joe McBride……magnificent Bhoy.
Today I thought of him,along with many many others.,and I watched a few of his brilliant moments,recorded for posterity.
R.I.P. Joe McBride. YNWA.
Sheik Yerbouti on 18 July, 2012 at 21:05 said:
zoom in and see who is on the bus
Doc ….. Absolutely ……..the term of the sentence should be proportionate to the offence……and the deterent ‘element’ should be “I’m going to ensure I don’t go in there again….that was horrendous”……… Of course there has to be a balance, but the current system is patently not working……
O.G.
Patience is a virtue as my mam told me often :))
Im prepared to wait as long as it takes .
ps thank you for your efforts on here
HAIL HAIL
Lennybhoy
Toshiba. Had no probs at all for last 6 months
Lennybhoy
Docking in Portsmouth in 10 mins. Yes got all yours and others updates many thanks I would have been demented if I’d had to wait to find out the result of the vote.
Wee laugh earlier drove by Le Havre’s new stadium and they still had a big sign outside advertising the game against the huns with a big red cross through it!!! :-)))
Estadio Nacional on 18 July, 2012 at 20:09 said:
Linfield …….wonder how much ‘help’ they have also received over the years .
HT
don’t forget to send Lennybhoy the bill…
Springfield Road pic is awesome.