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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So no Europe next year for Rankers, well we all knew that anyway.
HH!
Can someone seek out that obese Ranjurs supporter and tell him that the bottom line is about to be breached and the big hoose is about to close. I think he should be told.
James Forrest – it is standard for the Board of Directors/Chief Exec to seek & negotiate sale of company with potential investors. In this case the Administrators are running the company and fulfil this role.
Board then makes a recommendation to shareholders to accept proposed sale.
A story of this magnitude needs to be covered by Ron Burgundy…
News Team? ASSEMBLE!!!!!!!!
u
Potentially only 2 days away from blowing my cover on FF? I’ve waited 5 years for this moment. Will enjoy the comedy gold for the next few days
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHcIT9DbssI
new article posted.
The big hoose is trembling on it’s foundations. Watch out for falling mason(ry)
Neil camanalar @ 00.13 on 7/3/12.
Written like a true stupid Hun: you’d fit in well on FF.
Ulysses, I think you’ll find the Orcs are “trapped in a glass case of emotion!!!”
Does this mean the Legneds game Vs Milan will be cancelled?
RaRaRasputin:
Yeah but what needs clarified is that what they are saying is they want people to come in and before they have paid a single bill give Craig Whyte a large suitcase full of money to get him out the road.
In other words, they are asking someone to come in and reward our hero.
Gordon_J backing Neil Lennon on 7 March, 2012 at 17:00 said:
‘Wouldn’t it be beautiful, just beautiful, if the result of the Big Tax Case came out tomorrow? ‘
The ideal denouement is that the result of the tax case is announced the day after they are liquidated.
And they’d won.
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.
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That would be procrastination. I can’t help myself. Old habits die hard:-)
Do a lot of work for supermarkets..big thing this month in all the major ones?…..ICE CREAM and i aint joking! think tesco are the first to bring in the new lines.
ernie lynch on 7 March, 2012 at 17:31 said:
Even though it would be poetic, I don’t think we want them to win the BTC under any circumstances. It’s a pity it couldn’t hang over them for the next ten years and just when they think it won’t happen the result gets announced.
Duffer & Duffer heard to shout on leaving Poundland “O Lord My God! Is there no help for the widow’s son?*.
Hail Hail
jonny
see you there!!
No one seems clear on what’s going on at Murray Park.
A Duff Bluff seems the most feasible but why?
Reading BlantyreKev on RTC I think it seems to be the case that all the players that are worth keeping from an asset perspective (re-sell value) are also the ones on the big bucks.
So if these players won’t take a substantail pay cut then RFC run out of cash before the end of the season, making the company unviable.
BUT
If they make these players redundant they right-off Millions of pounds in value making the company unviable.
New article, anyone?
HH
Duff and Duffer confident of a sale ,no announcement till next week as it will take at least 7 days for 300,000 knuckle draggers to check down the back of their sofa’s
hail hail
Brick Tamlin reporting for duty!
PMJS
Chairbhoy,
Your wrong. Simply noone at Rangers is prepared to be second… that’s what underlies this. If they simply spent what they earnt they would easily be able to compete with the rest of the SPL. Every single time you hear any comment it is a refusal to be second.
You know what?
Tough.
Take the cuts.
And cut your cloth.
Of course… as is becoming apparent.. they have now put themselves in a situation where EVERY SINGLE income stream has been sold for short term gain.
It is absurd.
B
Are rfc been sold down the kwiki-mark? I do hope the buyer is a fit & proper person, look what happened the last time.
V
No euro football for gers next season confirmed.
Said they may not complete fixtures this season.
All joking aside (I know, it’s hard), everyone on this blog knew what a state they’ve been in for many seasons now – but is anyone else like me and has to keep reminding myself this is actually happening?!
I listened to the Celtic underground podcast with the journalists – was a very good listen. All of the opinion they would be in the SPL whatever happened. Incredible opinions.
if the deal was – they start again, allowed into the spl as newco. What would the punishment need to be to balance this? For 20 years of cheating? Cheating many clubs out of trophies? I can’t see how from a sporting point of view, never mind financial, how the game in Scotland could be left with ANY credibility. What would be the point in it anymore if one team can be allowed to cheat, run up debts, liquidate, come back and continue competing against 11 clubs that play by the rules.
Just thinking out loud. I have no clue what’s gonna happen.
Anyway let’s enjoy the treble :)
Hail hail
Breaking News From the Vatican
Good Friday has been moved forward to 9/2/2012
Wouldn’t it be beautiful if the result of the big tax case came out they day after they went bust… And they won.