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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TopCorner says:
27 February, 2012 at 00:34
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Yes I did notice it. Badly advised or deliberately being provocative. I think the latter.
Believe it or not, he was a decent journo when with the Glasgow Herald (as it was then known) in the early 80s.
Lateral movement when rangers die
Saint Stivs says:
27 February, 2012 at 00:23
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Yer keyboard secrets are safe, just had to confirm the Higgins link haha
Anyway off now, back to work after a weeks holiday, hopefully I picked the wrong week and thems are no more.
Hail Hail
jock tamson says:
27 February, 2012 at 00:36
saint stivs…
good stuff. tell more about the team another time.
need to get tae bed.
so the good, the bad the hunly.
ukelele orchestra with a wonderful jelly and ice cream inspired rendition.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLgJ7pk0X-s
Palacio67 says:
27 February, 2012 at 00:38
go get them pylons and junction boxes.
electricty rebels csc.
tal
kikinthenakas, 00:33
Entirely. It’s been getting better day after day and now we’re in danger of taking all these gifts for granted.
But I get the feeling that this story really is the gift that keeps giving (a bit like saverangers.com)
Anyone else been clobbered by these parcels when ratners die?
BAM!!! back of the heid…still managed to pass it on mind :O).
O.G.
The big story will be the contracts and if they were registered with the SFA and if not how much did Wiggy, Ogilvie and Peat know.
At least the story is in the mainstream media now.
see them bloomin’ parcels…
the postie is taking a contract out on me… anyway…
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Saint Stivs says:
27 February, 2012 at 00:29
jock tamson says:
27 February, 2012 at 00:25
sorry saint stivs…
get out and watch a real match other than celtic sometime.
a youth game , or an amatuer game,
its all good.
makes you realise how bloody hard it is to play football,
the knocks and kicks and all that.
and that our own team are actually hugely talented to be at celtic park.
keep it lit.
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Good advice there,i watch my bhoy’s games on a saturday morning and catch some other teams playing after his midweek training.Some of the young players are highly talented,look to have all the tools required to play the game and hope they get the opportunity.Most of the games are quite entertaing and ther definitely show how diffucult a game football can be to master.Well worthwhile experience taking these games in.And the filthy lucre’s not ruined it yet.Get along.
I personally believe Adam Matthews is going to become a Celtic legend,given the longevity of service needed,and will develop into our club’s finest right back since Danny McGrain.He has tremebdous attributes a few of which seem to betray his youth.With the correct and high level coaching he should receive as long as he stays healthy we will watch a true great evolve.
There are many fine footballers at our club just now but for me Adam seems best set to peak in his position.
Over to you Adam
FOREVERANDEVER!!!
kikinthenakas, 00:48
The contracts and the ripples from that story will bring about lasting change. But it’s the poppy story, if true, that will be remembered as the perfect snapshot of the cynicism, hypocrisy and corruption that pervades every fibre of their triumphalist being
Has Patman & Robin highlighted the huns songbook?
C’mon Pat, you told us you would hunt them down.
kikinthenakas says:
27 February, 2012 at 00:48
Sorry for butting in guys….but it isn’t a question how much Ogilivie, Smith and Bain knew. It is how much they should have known. Company Directors have legal obligations.
They don’t have the option of saying they didn’t know – on some of these issues, at least.
Don’t expect a response. Just saying.
Shytie Whytie’s complete (so far ) slippery antics.
l Whyte signed UK company documents when he was banned from any management role in British firms
l A source close to the administrators said Whyte may have used money from a “third party” as proof of funds before he eventually used season ticket money to buy the club.
l A past corporate offer involving Whyte was criticised by the Panel on Takeovers and Mergers over fears money was not in place.
l Whyte was behind a number of bizarre foreign online enterprises while disqualified as a director in the UK, many of them registered at a PO box in Miami, Florida.
Whyte’s reign as Rangers owner is in meltdown after the club was put into administration earlier this month.
The unpaid HMRC tax bill that prompted the move is now thought to be in the region of £14 million, while the “big tax case” could add another £49m to Rangers’ debt.
Whyte’s stewardship appears to have been fatally undermined by the revelation that he financed the takeover by selling off around £24m of expected season ticket revenue.
The chairman was derided as a liar after he denied and then admitted selling the future income stream to London-based Ticketus.
On the controversial Ticketus deal, a source close to the administrators doubted whether the London-based firm had been Whyte’s first port of call for the buyout money.
The source said Whyte may have first turned to a friend in order to reassure Sir David Murray and the bank that he had the finance available for the Rangers takeover.
He added that the friend may have provided Whyte with an “initial advance”.
The takeover is now being looked at by Strathclyde Police, while the Scottish Football Association (SFA) has launched its own investigation into the crisis club.
Aspects of Whyte’s chequered business history continue to dog the Motherwell-born tycoon.
A BBC documentary revealed Whyte was barred from being a director and was blocked from taking part in the “promotion, formation or management of a company” for seven years from June 2007.
However, the Sunday Herald can reveal that Whyte’s clever reading of the law allowed him to play a key role in a UK firm while banned.
In 2002, British Virgin Isles-based Custom International Ltd, registered at the same BVI address as another Whyte firm, became a director of UK firm Tixway Ltd.
On the same date, Pelham Holdings, incorporated in the Bahamas, also became a Tixway director. Whyte’s father Thomas was announced as another director of Tixway.
Companies House requires a senior member of a firm to sign the forms for any new director coming in. The filing that announced the father’s directorship was signed by Craig Whyte “for Custom International Ltd” in June 2004.
Similarly, Tixway’s dormant account in 2004 was signed by Whyte “for Pelham Holdings”.
In the same year, it was Whyte again whose signature appeared on forms approving the termination of two existing Tixway directors.
This time, he signed the forms on behalf of the BVI firms.
Whyte appears to have exploited a legal loophole that allows an individual banned from acting as a director in the UK to control a British firm through a foreign entity.
A spokesman for Companies House explained: “There is nothing obvious which prohibits the person referred to acting in the way described.
“The upshot is that he is signing on behalf of a foreign company over which we have no jurisdiction, and [was] not a director in his own right on said UK company.”
The foreign online enterprises that Whyte was behind while disqualified as a director in the UK were registered though a company called HTX holdings at the PO Box in Miami.
In March 2002, Whyte registered the website Libertycapital.biz at the Miami address.
His personal email at the website, ctw@libertycapital.biz, then began cropping up as the contact for a number of other websites.
Also in March 2002, Whyte registered the company London International Marketing, Inc in Nevada, using his liberty email address.
Records at the office of the Nevada Secretary of State list him as London International Marketing’s president, secretary and treasurer, and give his personal address at the time as Sarasota, Florida.
In 2004, Whyte used London International Marketing Inc to register the website Leavebritain.com at the Miami PO Box.
London International later failed to file its list of company officers in Nevada, and its status is now listed as “permanently revoked”.
Through an outfit called “Asset Reserve”, also based at the Miami PO Box, Whyte registered the website bellavistacr.com which offered people the chance to rent a luxury ocean-front home in Punta Leona, Costa Rica.
The property could be used if a customer supplied a “non-refundable” booking fee of $200.
It also has emerged that a past corporate offer involving Whyte had been criticised by the Panel on Takeovers and Mergers over concerns the money for the deal was not in place.
In 1998, Corporate Resolve PLC announced a cash offer for the shares in a company called Focus Dynamics.
The money for the deal was to be arranged by Swiss firm First Capital, whose head of corporate finance was Whyte.
However, the Takeover Panel’s report in 2001 expressed doubts that the funding was in place.
The report stated: “Mr Whyte was not, however, able to establish to the satisfaction of the Executive either that the funds were available to First Capital or that all conditions set out – had been satisfied.”
It continued: “The Executive, therefore, concluded that further assurance was required as to the availability of the cash to satisfy the cash offer in full if the cash offer was to proceed.”
One of the advisers behind the offer was businessman Aidan Earley, who continues to be of the Whyte’s associates.
Stephen Smith, the former chairman of the Rangers Supporters’ Trust, said: “Some of the former directors had legitimate concerns about Craig Whyte, and history has proven them to be correct.
“However, we’ve always said the primary responsibility lies with David Murray, who handed over the club to Whyte.
“It was not very diligent.”
He added: “UK company law is good for owners, but useless in protecting workers or shareholders.”
Whyte was unavailable for comment.
http://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/scotsol/homepage/sport/columnists/billleckiesports/4155875/Celtic-are-guilty-of-winning-their-last-20-games.html
Leckie given hately a hard time, strange days indeed
I enjoy those little moments i experience sporadically when at a home game.They can occur at any time and last barely a minute or so but they are beautiful,strong and life-affirming.They happen during a game as i gaze at the crowd,stare up at the floodies,my mind starts to fill with thoughts of where i am,all that’s happened herel,the history and here i am sitting watching the modern day heroes.I think to myself,”I belong here,amongst these fholk.I love it here.”It gives that feeling of sheer,irresistible good fortune and joy.I try and take it all in,get a warm glow inside then back to the match.Aye,i fair enjoy those little moments.
FOREVERANDECER!!!!
I can understand why Mark Hately, after so many years at Ibrox, finds it difficult to distinguish between right and wrong. I find it much more difficult to understand why E.S.P.N. cotinue to employ this rather stupid, biassed AMBASSADOR OF FOOTBALL for Rangers F.C. and expect the viewers to take him seriously.
On another point in this raging fiasco,I think we should concentrate our energies on the role of the S,F,A, in all of this. We are not fooled by the setting up of a committee. We want to know the whole truth.
6min film
http://vimeo.com/23360863
Magnus says he needs the right people to do the work – difficulty is finding the right kind of people
some o the funds from Paul’s book lauch on 7th April (Poles n Goals and Hesselink) will be goin to Mary’s Meals
https://twitter.com/#!/paullarkin74/status/173853633790746624/photo/1
Good morning Bhoys, wakey wakes rtise and shine from east Kilbride where it’s another damp and dreary start to the morning. Weather-wise that is, as it’s still feels bright and sunny in my head.
Another fun filled week in store.
Jobo
“Morally, I should not and will not be judge and jury over anyone’s future.”
Probably been posted or brought up already but I’m absolutely astounded (yes, again – will I never learn?) by this latest masterpiece of hypocrisy from Fatface McMoist.
Morally!! How he or anyone else in that cesspit can even think of using the word “moral” beggars belief.
Where’s the morality in the shafting of Hector, creditor businesses, other clubs, and numerous individuals who have been cheated & basically robbed by your rotten-to-the-very-core club, Ally?
He should be pelted from close range with a large ball of his own “craig whyte”
Morning all from a sunny La Suisse. The image of Mordor with the swirling, dark, menacing clouds above it – with the odd strike of lightening – is lodged in my head. Ugly things lie afoot in the next few days.
Squeaky bum time for the active participants and co-conspirators. All of them.
Wolvibhoy says:
27 February, 2012 at 01:29
http://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/scotsol/homepage/sport/columnists/billleckiesports/4155875/Celtic-are-guilty-of-winning-their-last-20-games.html
Leckie given hately a hard time, strange days indeed
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Good morning CQNers from MK where it’s a fine morning.
With all the investigations into Rangers perhaps the most telling will be the one that Paul67 highlights, namely the SFA’s investigation.
Peter Lawwell’s interventions have been timed to perfection so far, I’d expect he’ll have something to say about the SFA’s inquiry and transparency in the next couple of days
Leckie works for Sun and Hately doesn’t ….. it may be as simple as that.
The Gate In The Wood – Episode 19
A Meeting Of Minds
WG:….. Naw Ah’ll hae a Grafton Blondie
SOAL: So Boynita’s it work ?
WG: Faur is Ah know. No a cheep oot ay hur fae last Friday but Ah’ve goat a feelin Ah’ll bi hearin fae hur afore the weekend’s ower. Anyway the Grafton Blondie is a blond beer containing Maris Otter (Brother Walfrid wid approve) malt, wheat n a blend ay three English hop varieties, combining tae create a smooth character, bit like masel, wi citrus flavours n a hoppy finish. C’mon The Hops.
NAFOS: Ye don’t half talk some Jillian, WG
SOAL: Ah’ll hae a Coors in a Carling gless
WG: Ehhh up – twelve a’cloak
SOAL: Is that no yir love rival, Dougal Stuart, wi anurra wummin, WG ? Unless the lovely Boynita’s hud a complete makeower, I do believe Scoatlin’s tap whistler is playing the….er…field
WG: Aye, that’s Brother Stuart aw right. Ah’d recognise that snake in an overcrowdit reptile hoose in Embra zoo. Right, NAFOS, you git thum in n Ah’ll confer some Celtic hoaspitality oan oor trooser-leg liftin local hero
…………
WG: Good afternoon, Brother Stuart, and to what do we, The Teser Illuminati, owe the pleasure of your company ?
<i<Stuart rises from his seat and profers his right hand which WG dismisses with a shake of his Jim Morrison/Alexander The Great locks
DS: Er, we just thought we’d pop in for a quiet bite to eat, Mr Gemmell
WG: Nice day for it
DS: I beg your pardon
WG: Curry Night, Brother Stuart. Curry and a drink from our wide range of quality brands, £5.99 a whip. Twelve of your unfairly earned quid and you’ve substantially refreshed yourself and Ms………… ?
DS: Er…..Catriona
WG: The name rings a dinger, Dougal. Let me guess…..this here, Catriona, does she have a thing for the letters which would form one’s mother’s maiden name ?
Cat: Yes, I work at the bank. Do I know you ?
WG: Oh I’ve got it now, Catriona. You’re better with the maiden names than your actual customers’ names. Mr Winning Gemmell, we spoke last week.
Cat: Are you sure your first name’s not Winston ?
WG: Absolutely certain. And how is my favourite customer adviser to the European hungover ?
Cat: Boynita ?
WG: The very one
Cat: She went home sick at morning break
WG: Oh dear, Dougal, do we anticipate the patter of tiny feet ?
DS: Er….Yes I think I’ll have the lamb anton josh. Catriona ? Mr Gemmell, would you care to join us ?
WG: No, I don’t take to Curry. and I particularly don’t take to your close friend and fellow knuckle-cruncher, Curry McMichael. I take it you recall our little rendezvous on Saturday afternoon ?
DS: It’s indelibly etched on my memory
WG: Well I’d strongly advise you to have a little word in the shell-like of McMichael prior to his mishandling of our forthcoming match against the Killjoys at the aptly-named Rugby Park. Any cheating and he will be next to be interviewed by Commander Collins and his self-styled Wishaw Militia.
DS: Consider it done and……er…..hard lines against Bjornborg
WG: Aye, love-all. I’ll keep in touch.
The Gate In The Wood – Episode 46
WG: Ah don’t like the sound ay the word ‘entile’, Brother. Anyway whit’s this Howy Twinity Lounge aw aboot ?
FA: It’s a wounge dedicated to thwee of United’s gweatest Caffwik pwayers.
WG: Who ur they ?
FA: Paddy Cwewand, Bwian McCwair and Wou Macawi.
WG: Cin ye run the thurd wan by mi again ?
FA: Wou-Wou-skip-ta-ma-Wou.
WG: Oh aye, him. Three traitors if ye ask me. Whut herm did Jimmy Delaney dae yis ?
FA: Cwewand
WG: Ah thoat Paddy Cwewand wiz a third ay the Trinity.
FA: No, Dewaney came from Cwewand, it would just confuse people if we made it a Howy Quadity. We twy to be cwystal cwear at Old Twafford, keep on the wight side of jounnawists and pappawazzi.
WG: Evidently
Leckie in the Scum:
MANY things in life can become tainted.
Love, by a partner’s infidelity. Food, by a dash of the wrong ingredient. Blood, by infection. An entire life, by scandal.
But a league title triumph, tainted by too much winning? Wow. That’s a brain-frazzler.
Yet this is how the whole pee-the-highest contest that is the Old Firm twists too many melons.
The desperation that comes with believing you’re either first or you’re nowhere makes people horribly paranoid, terribly ungracious, stupidly illogical.
Yet even by the pea-brained standards of this never-ending, he-said-she-said tug-of-warped thinking, former Rangers star Mark Hateley’s claim that Celtic somehow have something to be ashamed of for running away with the league takes the arsenic-flavoured biscuit.
It would’ve been a stupid enough thing to say in the heat of a half-jaked pub argument. But surely no one with half an ounce of savvy would write it without reading the words back to themselves and going: “Hang on… this makes me sound a bit of a tadger.”
I mean, have the rest of us been living in a parallel universe where the Ibrox side were so far clear at the top the last resort for their bitterest rivals was to make a sneaky call to the Taxman on Valentine’s Day then lobby the EssPeeEll to have 25 points transferred to them by direct debit?
Or, by the time the excrement hit the Edmiston Drive extractor, had Neil Lennon’s side already clawed their way back from 15 behind to be four in front?
Go on, Mark, man up. And admit it’s the latter.
The championship was already disappearing over the horizon like a runaway train BEFORE Rangers had ten points deducted. Why? Because Celtic were winning games for fun.
So if that’s what you call tainted success… well, let’s just say there are fans of every other club in the land who’d take a right good tainting any time.
Livingston and Gretna buying promotions with money they didn’t have, that was tainted. Marseille bribing refs to help them win the Champions League, THAT was tainted.
Celtic, though, have done hee-haw wrong. Unless, of course, you count them indulging in a bit of schadenfreude; the German translation of the Scottish saying Get It Right Roon’ Ye.
Because make no mistake, if it was Parkhead in meltdown and the Copland Road bears were the ones giving it jelly and ice cream, some ex-Hoop would be in some paper or other spouting exactly the same guff as Hateley has, except with different-tinted specs on. That, as I say, is the nature of this two-headed beastie. Constantly trying to eat its own face off, even though if it ever succeeded it’d kill itself stone dead.
Though what am I saying, “if”? Parkhead HAS been in meltdown as recently as 1994 and Rangers fans DID get it right roon’ them, so many might say that what goes around comes around.
But as much as I’ve written of my dismay at Peter Lawwell’s we-don’t-need-theym bravado and as much as it wasn’t so long ago that Neil Lennon was bitching during the title run-in that teams were lying down to Rangers, none of it matters a toss when it comes to the current situation on the pitch.
Fact is, Celtic would be odds-on favourites whether the administrators had gone in at Ibrox or not. Fact is, their progress has not been affected one iota by what has happened to Rangers. Their fixture list hasn’t changed, the goalposts haven’t moved, the dressing room motivation is constant.
Win, win, then win some more, that’s been their mantra these last 20 games. Keep on winning so that even if The Other Lot got their ten points back out of sympathy, they’d STILL need snookers.
Does the lack of anyone to challenge them make it less of a worthwhile competition? Yes, but only marginally, as the EssPeeEll has always been based on anything but competition from the off.
That’s not the fault of Lennon or his players, though. Their job is to beat whatever’s put in front of them and that’s what they’ve done — including, remember, in the last Old Firm game.
So here’s the bottom line. One club has tainted this season in Scottish football. And it’s Rangers. Look the word up in the dictionary if you don’t agree. The definition reads:
“Taint — to pollute or contaminate; tainted — adversely affected by a bad or undesirable quality.”
Pretty much sums up the shameful state of the outgoing champions. Which pretty much makes it time to button it and take their dumps.
It’s down to the cops now to tell us whether their financial collapse was caused by criminal means.
But it doesn’t need Sherlock Holmes to deduce that the flag’s being ripped off their pole fair and square.
Is Peter Lawell the SSM again yet?
O.G.Rafferty says:
27 February, 2012 at 01:04
kikinthenakas, 00:48
The contracts and the ripples from that story will bring about lasting change. But it’s the poppy story, if true, that will be remembered as the perfect snapshot of the cynicism, hypocrisy and corruption that pervades every fibre of their triumphalist being
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You may well have a point,if this is true.
And I have no reason to doubt it.
On the other hand,I recall a worse one than that,and fairly recent too.
The “Old Crocks” game in aid of CASH FOR KIDS.
A full house at Ibrox,and Murray pocketed every penny above the guarantee he had offered.
He ended up with around 90%-though I’m willing to be corrected on the exact percentage-of the take.
Cue disgust from all decent people,a shrug of the shoulders from the huns,and eff-all from the media.
I’m quite happy to cast that one up every now and then,and as such,the poppy allegations leave me saddened but not the least surprised.
Top of the morning to you all from a very mild and wet Fife.
These last few weeks have seen me getting up early with a spring in my step and logging on to read newspapers I normally wouldn’t.
The thing that jumps out at me this morning is the worm turning. Michael Grant of all people is now saying that Murray Park should be renamed because the great one has brought the club into disrepute.
That is the best indicator I have seen in the Rangers‘ saga that the party is over for them. What does Grant know? One thing is for sure he ain’t being brave saying this, he must be on a cert.
Interesting article on the Sun’s take on the woman advocate who has slagged off Paul McBride on Facebook. http://scottishlaw.blogspot.com/2012/02/top-or-bottom-of-it-faculty-of.html
Good morning from a mild and murky Manchester.
Another great three points on Saturday. Only a matter of weeks till the title is won.
Hail hail
BIG NAN 0759
Thanks for the link,mate.
I accessed the following from another link in the above.
It must be made-up Timmy pash,cos it couldnae possibly be true,not in this best-of-all-possible wee countries in the world……
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However, it appears the motives for the bill’s violently quick passage are anything but clear, and nothing much to do with tackling crime with some now claiming the badly planned anti-bigot legislation, brought about at the instigation of Police Forces & Prosecutors (who themselves appear to be institutionally sectarian as well as corrupt), and seized on by the SNP as an appropriate pro-independence headliner targeting Unionism is more to do with cleaning up the historically high anti-catholic & anti-religious minority crime statistics to allow First Minister Alex Salmond to advance a particular part of his independence policy, that of joining the predominantly catholic European Union.
Speaking to Scottish Law Reporter over the weekend, a Crown Office insider claimed the real reason the ‘potentially dangerous’ historical statistics on anti-catholic crimes were shredded by Crown Office officials before they could be produced at the Scottish Parliament’s Justice Committee is more to do with the fact the current SNP Scottish Government feared any revelations of the now destroyed statistics could damage Scotland’s chances of being accepted by the EU as a stand alone member if it breaks away from the United Kingdom.
Within the now destroyed data, such was the level of reported anti-catholic crimes, the severity of the crimes, the lack of prosecutions, especially in sectarian complaints made against in some cases, still serving Police Officers & even COPFS staff, and the many questions the historical statistics on sectarian offences may have raised in debates at Holyrood, Scottish Ministers felt revealing the truth could lead to questions being raised in the EU over whether Scots authorities could handle sectarianism and prevent Scots based individuals & groups from spreading their hate message & criminal activity against Catholics & other religious minorities throughout the European Union.
The insider, who claims to have seen the now destroyed data which SLR reported on in an earlier article HERE, commented “If the information on sectarian crimes had been published rather than being destroyed on political orders, there would be no doubt in anyone’s mind the statistics would show Scotland is a dangerous place for Roman Catholics. The fear was if the figures got out, this would affect the SNP’s independence agenda and how the predominantly Catholic EU might view an independent Scotland asking for EU membership.”
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The last paragraph is particularly disturbing.
Morning taxpayers!
Charming thread on RM debating what they will eat and drink to celebrate the death of Neil Lennon. Could and should be a police matter. God alone knows what the criteria must be for moderation on that hate-site. No excuses for this.
Good to see that Hateley’s reputation is forever tainted by his guff-piece.
It’s common knowledge that the sectarian material was destroyed for the reasons that we all know about anyway. Ask any A&E department which result they fear most come an Old Firm match. The next one will be evil and care should be taken.
Despite all that, Amadeus is still in a good mood!
Hail hail!
DIRTYMAC 0743
I know I’m not the only one on here who will NEVER forgive him for selling us down the river over the alleged chants at the Rennes game.
I was about five yards from the Green Brigade all night,and heard nothing untoward.
A first-year law student would have been able to win an appeal;he decided it suited his agenda to accept the verdict.
I’ve said I won’t be back while he’s drawing a wage from Celtic,and I won’t be. Breaks my heart,pisses off my Dad and my uncle big-time,but so be it.
So unless SSM has a new meaning,then the answer to your innocent question is an emphatic no (from me at least!)
Jobo
You never said doing that Park run would be so sore on Monday morning.
EC67
daftauldgitCSC
The Lord Advocate may have ordered the incriminating and damning statistical records destroyed but somewhere in the back of my mind is a recollection of somebody, somewhere, pointing us all to a full back-up… or am I mistaken.
amadeus
It was probably Jangle Jackass that wrote it and Hately was thick enough to put his name to it.
Bobby M
I was adjacent to the Green Brigade that night and remember them singing Ooh Ah up the Celts.
Contrast our singing on that night to last week at ibrox when there seems to have been NO police complaint.
dirtymac \o/ says:
27 February, 2012 at 07:35
MSM playing catch up again. I had said that the only thing that taints this year’s League is Dirty Rangers participation in it. The question is how far back can we say the rot goes? I’d start at two and a half decades just for starters.
Amadeus
Ask any priest what result he dreads at Celtic Rangers matches! (And ask any joiner who makes a few bob on replacing the windows.)
As regards Alex Salmond, I was impressed when he handed over a rather hefty cheque to SCIAF to help with their work in Ethiopia. Now I realise it was just a dredge for votes. If he has had any part in dumbing down hate crimes against Catholics and burying stats, he needs to resign.