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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bjmac
Hope you are well too!
How’s the golf going?
Look at McCoist going bananas on the touchline
what a tool
gallagher,
Thanks for the info, that would be the lowest of the low. It certainly wouldn’t be a surprise though.
Greetings. Long time lurker, first time poster.
Am I wrong in saying that Celtic fans may be missing a trick here?
Surely the SFA would be bound by Freedom of Information legislation should someone have the means and wherewithall to submit a few inquiries.
I would say that Henry McLeish should also be asked to look into these matters as they are pertinent to his recent government-sponsored report.
What was the updated version of that song tey sang earlier……. ” I’m Rangers till THEY die, I’m Rangers till THEY die”
An interesting agent to talk to would be Kenny Millers did he have the same agent when he was at both clubs.I would then assume the players from both clubs would have eventually know about these differences when players crossed the divide
Did Inverness recently get a new groundsman. Just wondering why their pitch looks playable today.
Thank god Arsenal v Spurs coming on,if this is the huns before they sell their “star” players………..dearie me
Highland Huns 1 Glasgow Huns 3
Let’s hope this one goes the same way as our 0-3 deficit at Rugby park did back in november.
ItaliaBhoy
Tel has them set up to get torn apart, seems to be working
C’mon the Spurs!
Sorry to go on about this I am slowly coming to the conclusion that everyone in the establishment knew about this the only people who did not was joe public and we were the ones paying the wages.How deep does this go
Collum employing a different criteria re fouls and bookings depending on who the perpetrators are
both hun CB`s should have been booked
Listening to the IT game on Shortbread. They must be clever with the mikes cos not too much in the way of tainted language coming through the airwaves as described in earlier comments.
If it does transpire that there was some
delay in forwarding moneys raised on
behalf of The Poppy Appeal,it was most likely to spite Oor Canamalar…
So I blame Canamalar….
;-)
DeniaBhoy, the SFA have doggedly refused to investigate this or hold their president accountable. This is a huge mistake. They cannot cover this one up.
We’re on the case.
Patrick27, I don’t think they will survive long enough to be relegated.
petec, sure will, thanks.
ASonOfDan, I am sure Celtic and others will ask questions as soon as evidence presents itself.
Nakagod, deleted. The unbroken line makes it difficult for mobile users to read the site.
mightywhite, thanks for that.
YivWhit, welcome.
1-3 to Rangers – I can only imagine the post match interview from Butcher – he’ll be seething, he’ll be right in about Rangers and the officials and the linespersons. Absolutely raging he’ll be.
Ghuys pointless worrying about what songs they sing. We along with all decent Scots detest everything that the Rangers support represents. What can be done about them now? The police report them to the SFA, some of the media write about their disgust but nothing will be done. Fine them, deduct more points nothing will hurt them as they are already dead they just don’t know it yet. Let’s just keep the bubbly on ice and the fridge stocked with jelly and ice cream. Revenge is a dish best served very cold.
HH
Short reminder from yesterday.
If somebody wants to watch Jaroslaw Fojut, game Slask vs Legia Warsaw just started. 1:0 for Legia after 40 seconds. Fojut number 23.
Paul,
No problem, didn’t realise
Philbhoy, not played since the game at Leven!!!
Got a wee game up Balloch direction :-) in April, so better get a couple of games before then. Will be driving in March, it will be easier to get a game then…
hh
bjmac
dirty cheating, cheating, cheating, dirty cheating, cheating, cheating, dirty cheating, dirty cheating horibile …………. …. …..
sparkleghirl says:
26 February, 2012 at 13:21
True, but often agents are just guys like Gordon Smith or Barry Hughes. They “represent” their clients but I don’t think they deal with the nitty gritty of legal wording. There are lawyers acting with them. It’s their job to scrutinise every millimetre of ink on these contracts. It’s not in their clients interest to sign up to something dodgy and have the cr@p hit the fan ten years later. I’m astonished that this seems to have happened.
McCoist is embarrassing himself with his touchline antics
I challenge anyone who has even a modicum of sympathy for their plight to feel anythting but contempt for RFC and their fans after that 45 minutes of “singing”.
A truly scandalous repetoire of anti-Irish, anti-Catholic bile, straight from the 1920s.
This is the club praised to the high heavens by Alex Salmond – if he fails to condemn them now, we must draw our own conclusions about what life might be like in an independent Scotland.
Bjmac
I haven’t played since Leven either.
Spurs 1-0!
Cults 12.53
Respect sniffer?? Your havin a laff?
You cannot expect the police to arrest peeple in a crowd of 50000 at Ibrokes.
You cannot expect the police to arrest peeple in a crowd of 2000 in the highland stadium.
HH
Goal for Spurs. Comical defending from Arsenal.
Looking grim for Wenger…
In the odd moment when I am not laughing at them it strikes me just what a joke, a farce, a black comedy the last 10 years and perhaps more Scottish football has been turned in to by rangers.
That we managed to beat them to 6 championships in the 2000’s against the background of what went on is incredible.
If the second contract is shown to be fact, if they fielded players illegally in almost every game they played then they must be stripped of every title and cup they won in that period and the trophies awarded to runners up – of course this is not perfect in the case of the cups because the teams that rangers beat in earlier rounds may have something to say about that.
Scum is as scum does. Apart from the filth I listened to for about 5 minutes before switching it off, apart from the years of sectarian employment policies, apart from having the entire establishment on their side – they cheated. They cheated. They cheated.
Hate is a strong word. But I have to say the feelings I have toward that club and their collective support (decent individuals aside – but then there were decent individuals fighting for the Third Reich!) based on their actions are pretty much feelings of disgust, revulsion and anger.
I know they will probably come back in some form or other, but for symbolic reasons if nothing else the only fitting end for that tawdry, scummy institution is death. Perhaps the decent among them might take it as an opportunity to leave the club that their fathers passed on to them and go and support Motherwell, Killie, St Mirren or Partick Thistle. What comes back will no doubt be every nit as bad and possibly worse than what came before, but we have to ensure that they can never again get away with cheating.
As for Campbell Ogilvie I think the first and easiest thing, but also pretty effective if done by enough people and made public, is a mass letter writing campaign questioning the ethics of his involvement in the inquiry.
I’m going to draft a letter now and find out where to send it.
Poor Arsen Whinger!
How can anyone like him?
What’s this about Poppy money ?……..would find it hard to believe ANYONE would hold back Poppy money
Anyway, been watching the ICT game….they should have played their normal game, playing attacking football is foreign to them…He He……..chicko says “rankers are VERY VERY GOOD.” dearie me….!!!!! LOL…!!!!
RobertTressell….Spot on…!!
arse-nal still cheatin’!
Is there a governing body that covers agents in Scotland. If I was an investigative reporter I might go knocking and ask a few questions
Gordon Smith on SkySports, good grief, how many hands have to be shaken to get a job in this country? Em one the right way.
Campbell Ogilvie cannot stay on that SFA inquiry!! In fact he cant stay at the SFA!!! Get on the Hotline 2 morro Bhoys and bombard Keevins let them know we are watching them. And also the phone in 2 morro night.