I continually read misleading interpretations about the alleged second contracts at Rangers. Rangers may, and almost certainly did, insist at the First Tier Tribunal that the letters in question were not contracts. This point is important to the tax authorities but completely irrelevant to the football authorities.
The SPL specifically:
“Impose a prohibition on players receiving payments for playing football or participating in an activity connected with football except where such payments are made in accordance with a form of contract approved by the SPL and require that all such contracts are submitted to the SPL within 14 days of being entered into”.
The SFA require:
“All payments, whether made by the club or otherwise, which are to be made to a player solely relating to his playing activities must be fully recorded within the relevant written agreement with the player prior to submission to this Association and/or the recognised football body of which his club is in membership.”
So, for clarity, side arrangements do not have to be part of a contract before they become subject to SFA and SPL regulations, but “payments… connected with football” or payments received by a player “solely relating to his playing activities must be fully recorded”, otherwise the player has been improperly registered and his team would be awarded a 3-0 defeat for each game he played.
The Sun’s landmark story on this issue claim’s one Rangers player was due £1200 appearance money per game, clearly “connected with football”.
In point 14 of his statement today, concerning Rangers being stripped of their disputed titles, Dave King said, “I am absolutely confident (now that I have a good sense of the true position) that this will not happen”.
The “true position” will be established by SPL inquiry. If they have all letters issued to players of the kind produced by The Sun, or given as evidence to the First Tier Tribunal, Rangers have no case to answer, but we have to wonder, if this is the case, why the inquiry?
I note the swift and robust defence issued by Sir David Murray against allegations levelled by former college Dave King. I also note the swift and robust defence issued by Sir David Murray against allegations levelled by former college Hugh Adam of side-contracts being issued to players.
Wait a minute, Sir David hasn’t uttered a word about Hugh Adam’s allegations!
I would like to be the first to congratulate St Johnstone on winning the League Cup in season 1999-2000.
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Mort on 7 March, 2012 at 16:15 said:
Thanks,how many tutors is that I have?
Full statement, and I repeat…BOOM! Liquidation is the only word missing at the bottom but that’s what he means.
Duff & Phelps, the Administrators of Rangers Football Club, today issued the following statement.
David Whitehouse, Joint Administrator, said: “We are announcing today we are accelerating the sale of Rangers Football Club.
“The Club is in a perilous financial situation and that should not be under-estimated. Regrettably, we have been unable to agree cost-cutting measures with the playing staff on terms that will preserve value in the business. We understand the players’ position as the scale of wage cuts required to achieve these savings without job losses were very substantial indeed.
“In view of this, we are faced with a situation of making redundancies within the playing staff on such a scale that would materially erode the value of the playing squad. We are striving to strike a balance where cost-cutting measures can be implemented but do not destroy the fabric of the playing squad to the extent that it will inhibit the prospect of a sale.
“However, no one should be in any doubt that in the absence of sufficient cost-cutting measures or receipt of substantial unplanned income, the Club will not be able to fulfil its fixtures throughout the remainder of the season.
“As a result, we are expediting the sale process and over the next few days we will be holding discussions with prospective purchasers who have declared their interest. The Manager, Ally McCoist will play an integral part in thesediscussions.
“If however it becomes apparent that the sale process cannot be accelerated there will be no choice but to implement very severe cost cutting measures at the Club.”
Agent Craig “Green and” Whyte!! on 7 March, 2012 at 16:21 said:
It was supposed to be last Friday.
Prevarication is the thif of time and many other things.
Well said Jimtim,i think this needs a wider and more balanced viewpoint.Nobody in the media here seem to want to confront the real issues of cheating and collusion thats going on.
TIime to spread the word wider
let the good times roll
So … what the hell are D&P up to?
They’ve been trying to cut costs in order to sell the club, but couldn’t cut costs because it would make selling the club more difficult.
Now they are trying to sell the club quickly but if they can’t sell the club they will have to cut costs.
Have I got it right?
“As a result, we are expediting the sale process and over the next few days we will be holding discussions with prospective purchasers who have declared their interest. The Manager, Ally McCoist will play an integral part in these discussions.”
Is Ally bringing the doughnuts?
Here we are for the Mary Poppins Fiduciary Bank song. Can anyone do the link?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lvn0fH3hgeU
No one will buy thems with the btc result unknown.
LIQUIDATION.
yalday
Feed the Bears.
Don’t feed the bears
Vogue … just for you …
Oh I miss the kiss of treachery
The shameless kiss of vanity
The soft and the black and the velvety
Up tight against the side of me
And mouth and eyes and heart all bleed
And run in thickening streams of greed
As bit by bit it starts the need
To just let go
My party piece
Oh I miss the kiss of treachery
The aching kiss before I feed
The stench of a love for a younger meat
And the sound that it makes
When it cuts in deep
The holding up on bended knees
The addiction of duplicities
As bit by bit it starts the need
To just let go
My party piece
But I never said I would stay to the end
So I leave you with babies and hoping for frequency
Screaming like this in the hope of the secrecy
Screaming me over and over and over
I leave you with photographs
Pictures of trickery
Stains on the carpet and
Stains on the scenery
Songs about happiness murmured in dreams
When we both us knew
How the ending would be…
So it’s all come back round to breaking apart again
Breaking apart like I’m made up of glass again
Making it up behind my back again
Holding my breath for the fear of sleep again
Holding it up behind my head again
Cut in deep to the heart of the bone again
Round and round and round
And it’s coming apart again
Over and over and over
Now that I know that I’m breaking to pieces
I’ll pull out my heart
And I’ll feed it to anyone
Crying for sympathy
Crocodiles cry for the love of the crowd
And the three cheers from everyone
Dropping through sky
Through the glass of the roof
Through the roof of your mouth
Through the mouth of your eye
Through the eye of the needle
It’s easier for me to get closer to heaven
Than ever feel whole again
I never said I would stay to the end
I knew I would leave you with babies and everything
Screaming like this in the hole of sincerity
Screaming me over and over and over
I leave you with photographs
Pictures of trickery
Stains on the carpet and
Stains on the memory
Songs about happiness murmured in dreams
When we both of us knew
How the end always is
How the end always is…
cavansam \o/ on 7 March, 2012 at 16:26 said:
Is Ally bringing the doughnuts?
Nah theyll probably be training.
Old ones are the best eh?
Friday 10th March. The End.
9th
quonno on 7 March, 2012 at 16:24 said:
Agent Craig “Green and” Whyte!! on 7 March, 2012 at 16:21 said:
It was supposed to be last Friday.
Prevarication is the thif of time and many other things.
Och whats a week when your losing money to the extent most of us can only dream of.
I still dont believe it will happen this Friday.
It will be interesting to watch Port Vale on Friday and how they deal with administration compared to the inbreds.
Duff and Phelps are the Rangers of Administrators; utterly hopeless
St Martin De Porres on 7 March, 2012 at 12:58 said:
Very strong feeling for liquidation proceedings to start tomorrow possible Friday
As i posted earlier at lunch time I heard possibilty that the process to commence winding up the compant would be commencing either tomorrow or friday. Fairly decent source. Unlikely to make original 16th Deadline
It seem the dons fans huvnae realised yit tgat they have won a treble retroactively…
Away fur ma din dins:
Asian ostrich in a turkish pap
Or as i call it: The Pheonix Kebab
spirit of arthur
i take it your in , 5 of us £1.200 each
3 more, 2 days left to auction finishes
Paul67 et al
Surely this is where the Saverangers campaign will call in all the pledges and donate the money to the Administrators? No?
ok same acronymic concept….I tell you it id not that easy. Fair jiggered me.
‘Ready’s’ the call, no quarter, no fall
Against beads an’ Priests we’ll no’ bend
No Pope of Rome, in our Billy boys’ home
Gallows built high, our proud end.”
Ere Derry’s walls crash, get out yer Da’s sash
Ring Orange lodge and Masonic hall,
Stiff collar wae starch, Stomp jackbooted march,
And make yer last stand in Larkhall
Running on empty, nae cash, food or club,
Endless dark nights wae no dawn
Few pennies ‘n groats, thank feck for the goats
Each trophy now sent tae the pawn
Clang Clang goes the bell, on your journey tae hell
King Billy will be there tae greet ye
Each flame rising high, and yer blackheart souls fry
Down in Hades because Celtic beat ye.
Weans are out in their paddling pools now which are filling up with acid rain, soot, stoor and people diving off the twenty storey flats, just missing the spikey railings……
Hail hail
Estadio
CHEERY OH HO
CHEER EEEE OH
From the d and d statement
“However, no one should be in any doubt that in the absence of sufficient cost-cutting measures or receipt of substantial unplanned income, the Club will not be able to fulfil its fixtures throughout the remainder of the season.
Liquidation time c’mon
good afternoon cqn
in for my afternoon cqn fix,its like a suppose a soap my wife watches on tv it goes on and on,but surely the climax is on its way.but im loving it.
Also Murray and his cronies now squabling among themselves.No honour among thieves springs to mind
Gordon J
I concur with your summary.
The statement looked like it was heading for a liquidation conclusion but the last line seems to revert to cost cutting as the preferred option!
Help me to understand better WTF is going on!
Quonno
I’m sorry that you perceive that I didn’t pick up on your sharp wit!
HH
HH
It was a real bad move for Celtic not to pay up front for the huns away game. Shame on you P.L.
Celtic Mac on 7 March, 2012 at 16:31 said:
Paul67 et al
Surely this is where the Saverangers campaign will call in all the pledges and donate the money to the Administrators? No?
I hope not i pledged just under £60,000 and i dont get payed till the end of the month.
Paul67 new article please
Hold On
Remember
No Surrender
We dont do walking away
Dont Panic Mr Mannering
bye bye rangers.
May your soul face an eternity in hell and the memory of you fade into oblivion…
HH
Paul67 et al
The collapse of the “negotiations” between Administrators suggests to me that more than a few of the higher earners at Ibrox are quite prepared to walk away.
ADMINISTRATION
LIQUIDATION
DISINTEGRATION
CELEBRATION
“accelerating the sale” ?
It means that Rangers FC is about to be flushed down the toilet unless a wealthy hun nutjob can be found in the next few days to throw a fortune in their direction.
pigalle
rangers fc (in admin) for sale 50% off now only 50p
Gordon_J backing Neil Lennon on 7 March, 2012 at 16:26 said:
They must have been confident in getting parties interested in buying the prepacked huns. Sounds like we have a deadline for the potential phoenix buyers to declare their interest.
Expect a phoenix huns in the next week or so.
Typo:
For pap read bap.
That would be the hun hordes suck on the whore of babylons pap ( not bap).
What is a pheonix in reverse?
Is it like the opposite of a messiah?
Away fur ma pheonix kebab…
Awe_Naw_No_Annoni_Oan_Anaw_Noo on 7 March, 2012 at 16:34 said:
ADMINISTRATION
LIQUIDATION
DISINTEGRATION
CELEBRATION
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Awe_Naw_No_Annoni_Oan_Anaw_Noo on 7 March, 2012 at 16:34 said:
ADMINISTRATION
LIQUIDATION
DISINTEGRATION
CELEBRATION
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pmsl