More evidence emerged today on how Rangers recompensed players through their Employee Benefit Trust (EBT) scheme in The Sun newspaper, who have a draft contract Rangers offered an unnamed player. The contract was a letter confirming a six figure payment as well as a £1200 per game appearance bonus.
An accountant told Sun reporters Paul Thornton and Ewing Grahame:
“I have been shown a contract of employment showing how much money players were going to get but also a back letter which I presume that individual has assumed is part of his salary. It seems like a contract.
“If the two documents are handed to someone together, is that seen as being his overall package? If the answer to that is yes then there is a problem because the money that goes into the trust really should be getting taxed because it is his salary.
“The fact it is there as a back letter at all suggests it is dodgy.”
Attention is obviously drawn to the potential criminal consequences of these tax arrangements but football fans throughout the country will be alarmed that Campbell Ogilvie, the man who was general secretary and director of Rangers when the EBT scheme started, is currently president of the SFA and would have been involved in scoping out the secret remit of the SFA inquiry into Rangers, which was asked to report within an incredibly quick two week period. Ogilvie is also one of the few men the inquiry will report to.
If the allegations in today’s Sun are accurate, Rangers have improperly registered football players for a period of around a decade. The penalty for playing an improperly registered footballer in any game is a 3-0 forfeit.
When the SFA president is in a position to confirm all of this, the association have all information they require to make a ruling on this, but despite these allegations being widely reported for many months, they have yet to even acknowledge there is anything to investigate.
Can you imagine the scrutiny the Football Association in England’s board and chief executive would be exposed to if this scandal was not being actioned?
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Colin Blunstone used to play for:
The Zombies!
Paddy Gallagher says:
26 February, 2012 at 21:30
Pearcesdad
I indulged in to many of Greggs Bridie Gallaghers :-)
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Ooh Bridie.
Paddy
True. I’ll check up again in half an hour and collect them all up, though by the looks of things Charlie is well in front!
TheOriginalSadiesBhoy:
I enjoyed your post the other night regarding the time Jock Wallace allowed the Biddies to play at the Albion training ground, I must congratulate you for being able to recall the opposition team.
For you rinformation you benched me- despite being a midfield dynamo for the team!
I’m pretty busy on Tuesday – could we not leave liquidation until later in the week?
But not Wednesday – then we would only get to celebrate the anniversary every four years.
POTM is between FF and Mulgrew for me.
It has to be SHUNSUKE MULGREW for me.
TT
Liverpool TV Sky 434- Thommo just scored a beauty at Wembley for Bolton, LC Final
Paddy Gallagher says:
26 February, 2012 at 19:39
In the buid up to the 1995 Cup Final between us and Airdrie, John Martin, sporting a moustache, was interviewed on TV by Sally McNair or the other female presenter of the time(whose name escapes me). She asked him “What’s with the tache John?”. His reply “What’s with the Sash?” Cue for much mirth from him but not from her.
He was a totally unreconstructed Rangers supporter and a scab to boot.
sannabhoy says:
26 February, 2012 at 21:31
When is the night in St. Patrick’s Hall?
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
Patrick27 says:
26 February, 2012 at 21:34
Paddy
Fair play to you mate..
Number7 says:
26 February, 2012 at 21:34
Although I had a good record I made a lot of mistakes as a coach. To be honest If I could do it all over I would give my subs more game time. I always regret that I didn’t. Benching you was obviously a mistake. Can you let me know your initials and I’ll see if I can remember you. I won’t put your name on the blog though.
On the liquidation rumours am not sure this what it is about, although I’m not saying it wont happen. However, I do know that any employee still gainfully employed after 14 days of an administration event, becomes a Creditor. Perhaps this what the rumours relate to?
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
Friday March 2nd 2012
Irish Quiz
Venue: St Patrick’s Church Hall, Mayo Suite, St John St, Coatbridge, ML5 3HB. 7.30pm
Tickets £4 (Pay at door)
Enjoy an evening of fun and light hearted Irish entertainment. Why not enter a Team and test your knowledge of Irish culture, music, and history. The winning team take home the Festival Quiz Trophy. 7.30pm .Tickets £4 (teams should ideally have a minimum of 4 people)
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theweegreenman
He certainly is, his dad as you know passed away Charlie Snr,stayed in Marmion Drive young Charlie Owns the house, as far as I know, one of his Uncles stays there.The Mulgrew family were brought up in Fellsview Ave for most bof there lives.
Awerabest PJ
The word SCANDAL has yet to be used with regard to the EBT scheme and the improper registration of players.
Scandal is what it is. Scandal. Scandal. Scandal.
Keep repeating it. We are dealing with a SCANDAL.
There could well have been (and I use my words advisedly, not wanting to cause problems for anyone connected to CQN) CORRUPTION. Scandalous corruption.
We all knew Scottish Football was run for the benefit of Rangers. Now it appears that we are going to see the proof. Rangers men in key positions with both their own club and their country (I use the term country with regard to the football authorities, not the nation as a whole – although they certainly had influence in high places) to cheat every other club within the Scottish game and indeed those they were drawn against in Europe.
If this happened in Italy we’d have the press sneering and racially stereotyping shady Italians lining their own nests. But this is Scotland so it was all very ‘dignified’.
Scandalous. Absolutely scandalous.
They must be hounded in to oblivion.
Pearcesdad- agree,another striker Brozek possibly.Would like to see him get some game time.
Try again
Stephen Black says:
26 February, 2012 at 21:23
Brilliant
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPcpsv-OAjA&sns=fb
QWALITY!!!!!
ernie lynch says:
26 February, 2012 at 21:22
What a year this is… The huns going 2 the wall, hopefully followed by the witch and paisley anw even Ernie admitting on the blog he was wrong… What a year this is
Posts keep getting lost
Mayo D:
One of my first dobermans did this when the post man went by the window.
It was one of those crazy german imports. Never again.
All have been british bred since.
Paddy Gallagher says:
26 February, 2012 at 21:24
No I was a Primary teacher. I taught in St. Bridget’s and then St. Francis of Assisi. Chorlotte retired just before I started teaching. When I started at St. Pat’s, Coatbridge as a first year pupil I heard all about Chorlotte from the Bailieston boys. I felt as if I knew her personally from about 12 years old and I think I only met her once or twice.
Paddy Gallagher says:
26 February, 2012 at 21:40
Cheers mate.
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
Bada B
I’m trying to post a link to a forum where you can get the info re the golf, so far 5 posts have gone the way the hun will go soon
Seems that the posts with a link are not going through
TheOriginalSadiesBhoy
Mrs Mc Kay and Mrs Mc Bride, now there was a formidable strike-force!
tigertim says:
26 February, 2012 at 21:14
McCoist said before today’s win at Inverness Caley Thistle.
“Morally, I should not and will not be judge and jury over anyone’s future. Having said that, I will help the administrators 100% in any way I can.
“Every conversation I have had with Paul Clark and Simon Shipley of Duff and Phelps has been positive.
“They seem to be knowledgeable and respectful of the size and sensitivity of the job. Hopefully we will sit down in the next day or two and things will become clearer.”
Forget morals, when the players and the management are still being paid and the creditors still haven’t received a penny then morally, your club and the administrators stink.
McCoist should, like every other manager of a company in administration have been the first out the door, not this week, not last week, the day after the Duff & Phelps came in to MANAGE the club. I am sure all the creditors will be so happy that although no money or payment arrangements have been offered the administrators are very positive. Was there any NI or PAYE due for the salaries paid last week and was it paid? This has gone on long enough, lets get it finished and move onto the criminal charges stage!
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Agreed apart from one small thing – this has not gone on nearly long enough!! I want this administration malarkey spun out for months to come. I want every bit of their squalid laundry laundered (yes, I said laundered, not that i mean anything by that, ahem) in public. I want them and their followfollowers to suffer this for as long as possible. And then I want their club gone. Kaput. And then I want the Phoenix made an example of by Hector and made to pay every penny of the tax bill over many years to come.
Long Live Administration!
More bands confirmed for benefit gig at iPox;
Deep in debt Purple,Ungrateful Dead,Kraftywerk,Craig Whytesnake,Supertramps,Chronic Youth,Debt Debt Debt,Heaven 17p,Pinklint Floyd and Up the RAmones! ;-)
Mulgrew for the goals!!!
TheOriginalSadiesBhoy says:
26 February, 2012 at 21:47
A biddie bhoy from 64 till 71 then St Ambrose.
the forum is called arboleas dot co dot uk/forum/index
TET- thank you HH.
Robert Tressell
Have I missed your SFA letter?
Bada B
Scroll down to the bottom where the golf stuff is, you can ask there, they should give you the info you need
Oglach 17.22
Showing your true colours now you imbecile. Classic indication of someone frustrated that his lack of intelligence limits his ability to articulate. So insular, so deficient in character and ability that he reverts to type and instinctively strikes out in the same manner those who had the misfortune to rear him taught him so well. You probably didn’t even recognise that your no doubt long repressed but deeply held views contradict what you are attempting to say.
Rosary bead rattlers is not a description that I ever contemplated I would read on this forum. You are no longer welcome.
Greenlion 20:48
The huns have always harboured disproportionate esteem for the modest throw-in. There seems to be no rational explanation known to even the most learned of men. They use the mundane shy has a rallying cry; a sort of jihadi springboard for the more toxic dittys in their traditional songbook.
This must be the motive for turnip nuts touchline tantrum. We see an inocuous shy whereas he perceived an opportunity to facillitate inter- tribal warfare.
Charlie for PotM, but Joe’s my PotY so far.
Sanna – a good night, I’ve been rough all day….oh and you forgot CaltonTongues.
T4
RobertTressell says:
26 February, 2012 at 21:40
Spot on.