I know you don’t need to rehearse the Resolution 12 debate as you’ll know it instinctively now, but, as always, we are indebted to eyes outside of Scotland calling for insight and governance in the Scottish game on an issue only tangentially related.
Yesterday, The Offshore Game, ran a report that the SFA may have misled the Lord Nimmo Smith Commission inquiry into Rangers failure to register players on an industrial scale during their EBT years.
While the SFA were swatting away questions into how Rangers were cleared to participate in Uefa competitions in 2011, less than a year before disappearing into insolvency, chief operating officer, Andrew McKinlay inadvertently turned the spotlight on the reliability of evidence placed before Lord Nimmo Smith.
Questions around the awarding of Rangers Uefa licence in 2011 were asked in the dark as no one outside the club, SFA and Uefa knew what information had been submitted, and the SFA didn’t know what the club submitted to Uefa.
There was a belief that the club may have not disclosed a letter concerning the Wee Tax Case from HMRC to the SFA in 2011. Mr McKinlay wrote to the requisitioners saying that he “did not accept that” this information was not brought to the SFA’s attention in 2011 – two years before Nimmo Smith sat.
This assertion tidied up the Res 12 issue at Hampden, but as The Offshore Game makes clear, why on earth did the SFA’s evidence to Lord Nimmo Smith on the Wee Tax Case not reflect the correspondence they had on file? In short, it was accepted by all that schemes scrutinised by the Wee Tax Case were unlawful.
Nimmo Smith didn’t hear this, in fact, he heard was that Rangers tax schemes were legal, and concluded, therefore, as any other club could have used them, no sporting advantage was accrued.
The Offshore Game call for scrutiny of the SFA over this by the parliamentary Culture, Media and Sport select committee. This call will be magnified should the Supreme Court uphold HMRC’s position on the Big Tax Case.
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PHILBHOY – email responded to.
BMCUWP – did you get the e-mail info?
KTF
Very good interview with stilian petrov.https://www.balls.ie/stiliyan-petrov-graham-hunter-podcast/352049?utm_source=email
VFR800A8
That I did,mate. Read it when I got up for nightshift last night.
I’ll set it up over the weekend,TYVM!
This is gonna be fun when I mail my hun pals back home. And my boss!!!!
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS ON 18TH NOVEMBER 2016 12:00 PM
Aye, it raises a few chuckles!
KTF
ALMORE, you are limited to 10 questions on the café topic and only 5 salient points per question!
KTF
Vi see bet fair are giving 3/1 Celtic win, old rope I tells ya
Hello again all you young rebels.
Melbourne really heating up now as we come towards summer, 30 degs
last night down at our football training and those rubber pellets on the
G4 pitch fairly radiate the heat, don’t know if they thought that one out
properly, at one point i was actually looking back fondly at my footie days
on a rain lashed black ash Glesga green.
Thought we were losing our prodigious talent our very own Karimoko
Dembele he wasn’t his usual exuberant self at training the last couple
of weeks and then he told us he was leaving and would play for the
local St Patrick’s school next season, everyone was stunned, him and
the weemhan scored over 30 goals between them last season and he was
so close to our Celtic bhoy’s we just couldn’t understand it, but our bhoys
kept badgering away at him and it turns out his family couldn’t afford the
registration fees, needless to say the Celtic family closed ranks and the
problem was quickly sorted, now we can look towards our first title this
coming season.
Oz Celts
Beautiful weekend expected so get yourselves down to the rebel town for
a great Celtic Sunday and if you happen to be having an early morning stroll
along Mornington beach and see two auld ghuys lying on the sand with the
hoops on that will be me and Paddymac from the night before, so please
waken us as we need to keep an eye on those young Irish bhoys before they
drink the place dry.
H.H Mick
AULDHEID on 18TH NOVEMBER 2016 11:46 AM
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Dallas was on SSB lying about what Steven craven said to – Dougie, Dougie.
What did Cellic PLC do about it – hee-haw.
Hail Hail and thank you but,…ye might have to be dirty to win the
Res;12 war…imho.
Hail Hail
CANAMALAR
1/6 at Paddy Power.
No matter,I never put money on Celtic. Obvious reasons.
First of which is that I’m a jinx!
…off-oot-laters….
MELBOURNEMICK
Kudos,mate. Job well done.
Player’s happy and his pals are happy.
Hope they hit 50 next time.
new article posted.
Almost
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