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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Broonie as little john? Well he is little.
Mutch the Kenny Miller’s son, to be played by Danny De Vito.
Lenny the lisbon lion heart
Liverpool striker Luis Suarez claims Peter Lawwell’s “political power” resulted in his ban for racially abusing Patrice Evra last season.
Luis Suarez earlier claimed his “conscience is clear” over his eight-match ban.
Suarez was suspended for eight games and fined £40,000 over the October 2011 incident. The Uruguay international says the period of his trial was traumatic for he and his family, but also believes Manchester United with the help of Peter Lawwell conspired against their fierce rivals Liverpool.
“It was so hard what happened to me,” Suarez told Uruguayan TV station RR Gol. “I don’t show my emotions in the field, you know, but outside I do it. I cried a lot with all the Evra stuff.
“The trial week was so complicated for me. My wife and I cried a lot during that week. That’s when I realised who were the people who really support me and who were the people who were with me because of their personal interest.
“People at the club are sure that it was a way that Peter Lawwell used to put me out of the team and stop Liverpool. But in England, Peter Lawwell has this political power, and you have to respect that and shut your mouth.”
SS
hold on im taking a call from them againnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn
starry plough on 18 July, 2012 at 11:50 said:
Imatim and so is Neil Lennon on 18 July, 2012 at 11:45 said:
What an interesting thought, you running a book?
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2010 Never Again
Never underestimate the UFH
TheGreenManalishi(WithTheTwoProngedCrown) on 18 July, 2012 at 12:02 said
Hehehe.
Perhaps they will bury Rangers where the arrow falls?
Paul67
I had a similar thought about Sevcos involvement when I read the DR article.
I also wondered who leaked it and why. I already see suggestions of SFA prejudging when it is in fact a position paper to inform the SFA
Skullduggery abounds still, they cannae help themselves.
jungle jam67 on 18 July, 2012 at 11:15 said:
the spl are due to rule on the 2 contract investigation by the10th august
charlie has10 days to get eveything in place
sevco to play their first game on the 28 th july
and RFC(ia) are to be liquidated on the 31july
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Does this mean that the Huns will still be in Admin when the season starts? If so what do the rules state about a points penalty………hope it’s 25!
The strips they were wearing last night- is that just old stock they got their mums to wash?
I thought that with the liquidation event the sponsorship with Tennents was finished?
I am actually working today, and one of the main contractors to us is SERCO.
On calls I keep mention SEVCO.
I think I will be getting my jotters soon
With only 600 ST’s sold at Ibrokes it looks like; Where Are The People, would be more appropriate.
NegAnon2,
Interesting theory – but it seems likely that the government will go ahead with the legislation. Unless it can find a way of making it the fault of Westminster’s equalities legislation …
Got a lot going on at the moment so I haven’t even been loitering on CQN since Saturday except to read Paul’s leads, only because, I swear, of the need to save (life)time.
So, just a few minutes ago, I have a wee sneak at some of the comments that follow the latest article only to realise some of what I have been missing…
I’m sorry bhoys and ghirls for letting you neglect me!
Life is about choices: CQN OR Family life and work commitments.
Mmmmm, which should I choose?
HH
Bomber has enlisted the Kebab.
ASonOfDan on 18 July, 2012 at 12:15 said:
Green
“I would like the clubs and UEFA to recognise these are not my debts”
So they are not the same rangers then?
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Green.
Sometimes we´re oldco,sometimes we´re newco .
Bb
So is Peter Lawwell.!! ALWWIGHT?? lol
Gordon – I will guarantee that the SNP will not do this on their own. You could be right about the delay being about blaming this on the UK Gov.
Its pathetic eh?
I’d be happy with them being stripped of the tainted titles they got, but personally I wouldn’t want them. I’d prefer to just have the previous cheating recipient’s name obliterated so that when someone asks, many many years into the future, why there’s no name against those years…
Heheh,
KevinBhoy.
Is Mise Neil Lennon on 18 July, 2012 at 12:34 said:
With only 600 ST’s sold at Ibrokes it looks like; Where Are The People, would be more appropriate.
read somewhere this morning the actual figure was 450 ST´s
Wee ara peeple are waiting for their saviour.
Stephbhoy, I don’t have the number but I hear we have a bit to go to bridge the income gap from not having two big ticket Rangers games. Don’t know about the drilling.
Freddiebhoy, that is the question we face.
hen1rik, indeed.
Garngad to Croy, indeed.
stephenpollock, there is more going on behind the removal of independent oversight. This must be maintained.
KevJungle, :-)
Battered Bunnet, quite right.
If a CQN article leads to Tony Mowbray becoming a league winning Celtic manager, what should we turn to next?
Lennon n Mc….Mjallby, the tiles are important but so it the future.
lochgoilhead bhoy, 12:!5, ha! You’ve been shared.
….PFayr, they are running out of time to get a replacement.
Auld Neil Lennon heid, indeed.
Wee Wullie Bluenose would be the minstrel – Alan Adale
Rather than ‘Merry Men’ could they be ‘wee arra’ people?
So….according to the aryan wing of the o.o. @ ff, we, the indefatigable Tims,have taken over the whole shebang with the aid of The Holy Roman Empire and are laying waste to the orc homelands as we speak…..and they,the misbegotten spawn of Satan, will now mount a scorched earth policy as they scurry to regroup and plan their next blitzkreig ?
Well….that’s the subtext I’m getting from their ravings.
Off to listen to ‘Tommy’!
HH!
If Peter Lawwell has had all this power within football for so long why the hell have we had to wait till now for the death of Rangers? What the hell has he been doing?
Lawwell Oot!
Gordon_J backing Neil Lennon – Re: “marriage equality”, what a hilariously tendentious and dishonest phrase. But I suppose it sounds nicer than sodomatrimony.
We already have marriage equality in the UK.
We also have civil partnerships for homosexuals, only introduced a few years ago.
All of a sudden, as these things tend to go, people are being portrayed as frothing, gay-bashing bigots for not supporting the latest hysterical demand of the politically correct to fundamentally redefine the core institution of our society.
If they get their own way, it can’t be long before we’re similarly accused of being swivel-eyed Islamophobic racists for resisting the inevitable demands to legalise polygamy.
Or maybe we’ll all be pooch-punching cynophobes for not supporting legalised dog/human weddings, or whatever other daft whim floats into their collective heads.
If this is such an important and necessary cause it should be put to a referendum, otherwise politicians should leave marriage alone. (thumbsup)
A son of Dan and Gerry
It was on news now, he could not afford asking price if 1.5milion for a player and he realized that he must sell before he buys
Now just asking if that is true or not,
On SSS there. Berwick Rangers dressing room getting done up. Jayzuzz hope naemdae farts. Theyll need to thro in a canary after abt an hour to see if its all clear.
Sevco fixtures 2012/13
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Paul
“If a CQN article leads to Tony Mowbray becoming a league winning Celtic manager, what should we turn to next?”
Might I suggest dabbling in alchemy? Or perhaps a little spinning gold from straw?
I see that everybody still seems to be steadfastly (or should that be ‘staunchly’?) refusing to publish a set of fixtures with Dundee in SPL and Sevco in Div 3.
What are they all waiting for?
Al Chemy is ‘like a new signing’ -Mark Hateley.
Tim Malone – Shortbread are hopin’ they’ ll wake up to find ole Walter in the shower, and it’s all been just a horrible dream…
The same sex marriage debate just confuses me I know that both the males and the females who prefer there own sex were born that way and and did not choose that as there preference.However,I also know the Bible condems it now if the t he Bible is truly the word of God ought not we to be following it ? So as you see there are pros and cons for both sides of the debate and it leaves me confused. H.H.
philvisreturns 12:42
Back with a bang! Love your posts.
HH
Albion Rovers v Sevco
* July 21st closed doors – Moonbeams Park *
Is the £700 redevelopment of Ibrox definitely not going ahead now?
Jude 2005
Ian Black is doing it as a moonlight – papers and paints the dressing rooms at half time for a wee bit of ‘shoe money’…