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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Jack Regan says:
26 February, 2012 at 14:09
please learn the Hymn, Faith Of Our Fathers
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I think not – a lot of our support are not Catholics or do not really care about religion. Having a party when Rangers die will suffice.
It took the s*n of all (newspapers) to out this! Roost and chickens CSC. House of cards I hope. HH.
Just turned thems game back on. They are singing ‘Rangers til I die’
Surely that should be
Rangers til they die!!!!!!
hahahahahahahahahaha get it right round ye, cheating, tax dodging, bigoted, knuckle dragging, BNP supporting, tolerance deficient neanderthals:
You’re rangers til they die, you’re rangers til they die, we know they are we’re sure they the rangers are gonnae die
If those rankers players are putting themselves into the Post-Redundancy shop window, it must the ‘bargain basement’
Goals agin Celtic? 16. Goals agin thems? 17 YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS. So childish I know!!
First minute of this is so appropriate.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwVYnjHKMhY&feature=results_video&playnext=1&list=PL1006BACF790F1299
2-2 in north London derby, come on Spurs get a grip
Great goal by Van Persie 2-2
huns score again 1-4
Walker calls lurtz onside …when freeze frame shows him level at best ……looked off to me
P67,
The Scottish Football (Guilty by) Association will be the subject of extremely close scrutiny by UEFA and will be unable to wriggle of of this one.
As for those mephistophelian wretches that follow Rankers – the sooner their “vehicle” of hate dies off, the sooner they can crawl back under their stones.
Hail! Hail!
DavieL
25th March is going to make the League Cup final against them look like a Sunday School outing.
As predicted they have reverted to animalistic type.
67heaven
pound shop..window
what’s yeast and rankers got in common
they’re both in bred.
Oglach….I would love to hear The Holy Ground’ blasting out at CP again …….would bring back great memories for many of us older fans…!!!
It’s wholly inappropriate for Radio Shortie commentators to refer to “Coisty” during a game..I m sick of their grovelling bias…
LIQUIDATE, CONFISCATE ,EVAPORATE them..
Please feel free to add to my words..
HH
Oglach, please accept my apologies. I agree with you but I hate them.
sp. Out of . Sorry!
Hail! Hail!
DavieL
Ps miss the old dustbin!
Mickybhoy1888
Are you too dumb to operate sky + ?
Or can’t you afford it …difficult to believe unless you left the force disgraced.
HH
67 Heaven Agreed
Good game at Emirates. 2-2 @ ht.
He was onside walker….
Robert T – ta, but it’s still incredible.
that young hun playing at rb for them is atrocious …….hope he plays against us we`d tear him a new one
jimmmci
Ive got it but dont have ur email. Its abt tenish last night I think I C&P it.
RobertTressell,
lol….I might have missed him saying that as everytime I see or hear that little blowhard on tv or radio I mute the tv or turn down the radio and listen to my kids fight with each other, which is far more entertaining than listening to his drivel.
HH
dearie dearie me………..so many songs about death. there’s a certain irony there though.
67Heaven … I am Neil Lennon..!!..OUR DAY HAS COME. says:
26 February, 2012 at 14:19
Oglach….I would love to hear The Holy Ground’ blasting out at CP again …….would bring back great memories for many of us older fans…!!!
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I do not believe Catholic hyms have any place at CP circa 2012. We are an inclusive club albit it with strong links to Ireland and Catholicism but we now live in a secular multi-ethnic society, which happily is reflected in the make up of our support.
Totally feeble effort from Butcher’s Huns. Compare and contrast to any time they play us.
pedrocaravanachio67 says:
26 February, 2012 at 14:19
what’s yeast and rankers got in common
they’re both in bred.
share
TAL!
Jack Regan says:
26 February, 2012 at 14:20
Oglach, please accept my apologies. I agree with you but I hate them.
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Mo Chara, no need to apologise. We all have our own opinions. I hate them also :-)
Paul67
“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.”
I am hoping that Celtic will use the above penalty as an argument to have ALL of the trophies won by Rangers (whilst they played incorrectly registered players) made null and void ,and the proper winners (ie the cheated runners up) awarded the trophies.
Do you think that is a likely course of action that Celtic will take ,if it is proven that they have incorrectly registered players?
TT
McCall knows all about capitulation against der hun,there will be no complaints from him.
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaahahahahahaha
god save our queen . haahahahahahahahahaahahahaahahahahahaah
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaahahahah
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.
thick or what??
BBC Scotland has updated the table before the game has even finished.
A wee change from their usual tardy work Hmmmmm.
ICT were on the jungle juice last week, it takes a while to recover.
KTF
oglach says:
26 February, 2012 at 14:13
Would you agree with me that as a lot of our fans are not Republican, or of Irish descent, or do not really care about Irish politics, we shouldn’t sing rebel songs at Celtic matches?
Howdy
I dont care about them….having said that, i would happily celebrate their demise with a nice glass of chianti and some fava beans.
Had a nice time at the game yesterday i thought Sammi was particularly good
Then last eve ….BOOM… i get to skype with the kid ive never seen, and she says daddy i love you…….man that was something else
Hasta La Victoria Siempre :)
Paul67,
The implications of your article, and of this morning’s Sun revelations, are immense.
I actually believe it has gone way beyond anything Regan can handle now.
Celtic should be placing a call to UEFA as a matter of urgency…
ICT when did they last get humped.. ? It’s blatant.. Thank god our lead is so substantial.. The cheating goes on .. Butcher a disgrace ..