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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will rfc start to apologise for the 100yrs of hate ?
Roddybhoy
I presume UEFA are watching this enquiry with interest. After all Hugh Dallas is there. Our “Trojan Horse”!!
PFAyr.
Where did you end up last night.You must have been Last Man Standing as the others have surfaced yet,I enjoyed my night with you guys,good company to a man,look forward to the next time.
As the evidence unfolds Scottish football is shafted, it’ll be either start again on a proper and accountable basis or we’ll get a move imo.
swally : the whole place needed a boost, i’ve had a boost, a curly wurly, 2 mars bars, a dairy milk, 2 rolls on sausage a packet of monster munch, a caramac and a comb over.
niar not far
it really doesnt matter who we are individually
no offence, champ, but that there is Colin Nish !
thanks for listening, good night, God bless, safe home
20’s plenty
:)
Papa John says:
26 February, 2012 at 14:47
That’s what I always thought it was. Great song.
Mrs J wants to know why Im not upset abt thems winning. Bless!!! <;o)
oglach says:
26 February, 2012 at 14:49
The holy ground is a sea shanty, in no way a hymn a rebel song or offensive to anyone.
Ciao —–
Buona Domenica tutti —– a lovely sunny day -way down south .
Just back from Punta Secca — ate my first ice cream of the year —– Cardamon and Ginger— Lovely.
I have taken to wading through Hun websites . –it seems to be dawning on them that the Hun establishment stitched their club up , covered their asses and handed the remnants to Mr Whyte. Absolutely going for broke and succeeding.. The buggers are truly buggered
Time to go on a Bear Hunt at the SFA.
Never saw the Huns game today, but from listening to radio Scotland it would seem safe to assume McCullough will start against us at centre forward.
Hope big Kelvin sharpens his own elbows in advance, it will be bumpy.
Awe_Naw
The more you look deeper into thing the clearer things become, the club have seen this coming for years, they have decided on letting them destroy themselfs.
The club could have done it a couple of years ago, better this way, it’s been painfull the past few years, but all for the greater good.
duffield : a champions league place at stake……eh administration, accounts, ticketus, whytey et al….. i shouldnt think so.
oglach says:
26 February, 2012 at 14:28
Have you taken on the role of censor. The Holy ground is neither Catholic or republican. it is old fashioned but I can’t see how it would offend members of the “but we now live in a secular multi-ethnic society” which you live in. Where is that?
Best chant? Id rather be a Doc than a d*ck. <;o))))))))))
Jude2005
Lol Oh forgot about him, Im sure he will be fighting our corner , yeah right !!
Popped out to the CO OP there – 810 medium wave.
Rangers are ———— (Insert superlative here)
Don’t they ever learn? Won’t they ever learn.
Every swallow a summer…
It’s like a default setting – Rangers are brilliant, and therefore Celtic are rubbish. Rangers are rich, therefore Celtic are poor. Rangers are poor, Celtic are unfairly doping the league. Rangers are poor, but but are still brillaint.
I keep seeing Homer trying to drink the electrified cans. Never, ever learns.
But it’s when I’m happiest – when they are talking up the Rangers. It proves the delusion and the pathology of their delusion.
And morally approves my lack of pity. That I ever needed it…
u
S B
Rogne will sort him out big time!!!!!
Derry City were incorporated into the LoI, due to there adverse working environment.
Perhaps one of the Derry lads can confirm or otherwise.
Song debate…NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!
BTW The Holy Ground isn’t a hymn.
TopCorner
Sorry, took me a bit of time to figure out Colin Nish, but i got there :) was thinking …is that a former r****** player from the 80’s? but i figured it out. Thanks dude :)
Fare thee well my lovely Dinah,
A thousand times adieu
For we’re going away from the Holy Ground,
And the girls we all love true
We will sail the salt seas over,
And then return for shore
To see again the girls we love,
And the holy Ground once more
FINE GIRL YOU ARE
You’re the girl that I adore,
But still I live in hope to see
The holy Ground once more
.
And now the storm is raging,
And we are far from shore
And the good old ship is tossing about,
And the rigging is all tore
And the secret ofmy life, my love,
You’re the girl that I adore
But still I live in hope to see,
Holy Ground once more
FINE GIRL YOU ARE
You’re the girl that I adore,
But still I live in hope to see
The holy Ground once more
.
And now the storm is over,
And we are safe and well
We will go down to a public house,
And sit and drink like hell
We will drink strong ale and porter,
And we’ll make the rafters roar
And when our money is all spent,
We will go to sea once more
FINE GIRL YOU ARE
You’re the girl that I adore,
But still I live in hope to see
The holy Ground once more, FINE GIRL YOU ARE
TET
I reckon so too all will become clearer when we can comment on it.
The signs are good. Players not leaving etc.
SOT
The bear hunt will also be on at UEFA … Platini cannot tolerate such a level of subordination that it makes him and his organisation look so corrupt and stupid.
HH
That’ll be the coupon down, arsenal 4-2 up
during ICT game there
saw an ad for Tues 6th March
some “debate” taking place by BBC re
“scootish fitba”
on TV at 10.30pm ?
will be the usual jibberish but fore-warned is fore-armed, as Tony also said yesterday
A wee thought occurs to me, fellow Celtic supporters.
Amid all the names being mentioned, with regard to bringing about their downfall and/or their cheating us and Scottish football, one has been overlooked, as far as I can see: that of wee Daryll Broadfoot. Wasn’t the former Chief Sports Writer for the Herald and current Press Officer of the SFA allegdedly the source of the anti-Celtic stories emanating from what used to be Park Gardens?
Make that 5
Is there anywhere that’ll take a ten quid bet on the upcoming derby being stopped early with Rankers going down to 6 men? ‘Elbows McCulloch’ won’t last as long as it takes me to find my seat.
Jude
Hope so mate, physicality not the strongest part of his game, though he is no pushover.
Referee concerns me more, with what he will let go.
Hope it’s not Blind Willie Collum.
Is McCoist really still saying that he refuses to have any involvement in deciding on player redundancies?! What a great leader of men this TV show host is proving to be.
That’s like the Greek PM refusing to be involved in deciding which departments should have the biggest funding cuts as part of new austerity measures.
In fact the administrator should just say, “oh well, that’s fine. We’ll just pick the starting XI and give the team talks seeing as you are so inadequate at making difficult decisions. There’s your p45. We’ll use your wage to keep a couple of your millionaire players on the pay roll for a few more weeks”
Get in there Theo…
Are we still permitted to sing this?
Maybe better ban it. Don’t want people to be getting ideas.
Let the People sing
For those who are in love
There’s a song that’s warm and tender.
For those who are oppressed
In song you can protest.
So liberate your minds
And give your soul expression.
Open up your hearts,
I’ll sing for you this song.
Let the people sing their stories and their songs
And the music of their native land
Their lullabies and battlecries and songs of hope and joy
So join us hand in hand
All across this ancient land
Throughout the test of time
It was music that kept their spirits free
Those songs of yours and of mine
It was back in ancient times,
The bard would tell his stories
Of the heroes, of the villain,
Of the chieftains in the glen.
Through Elizabethian time
And Cromwellian war and fury
Put our pipers to the sword,
Killed our harpers and our bards.
Let the people sing their stories and their songs
And the music of their native land
Their lullabies and battlecries and songs of hope and joy
So join us hand in hand
All across this ancient land
Throughout the test of time
It was music that kept their spirits free
Those songs of yours and of mine
Ireland, land of song,
Your music lives forever
In its valleys, in its mountains,
In its hills and in its glens.
Our music did survive
Through famine and oppression.
To the generations gone,
I’ll sing for you this song.
Arsenal 5- Spurs 2
Spurs were 2 nil up after 30 minutes.
Arry for England right enough…
Lads gutted for my bro today, he was waiting on cally for 3 grand.
Regarding huns i wan’t them gone after listening to that singing today, Keevins,Salmond and co you lot think we wan’t that scum saved, ha ha ha geez peace.
Th Honest Cover Up…
It’s pretty presumptious of McCoist. Should his job not be under threat too?
oglach says:
26 February, 2012 at 14:28
Have you taken on the role of censor. The Holy ground is neither Catholic or republican. it is old fashioned but I can’t see how it would offend members of the “but we now live in a secular multi-ethnic society” which you live in. Where is that?
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Slow down there. Who mentioned the holy ground? My reply was in relation to ‘The faith of our fathers’.
Multi ethnic society – well one example would be our 1st team squad.
Robert Tressell 14:10
re David Grier
he has been a Partner at Duff n Phelps for quite a while, as far as i know
he was a guest of Whytey in the rfc director’s box a few months ago
that’s why, when on 16th Feb the Duffers gave their “loaded” presss conference, i drove over there to have a word with them
looked like a set-up from the off
and we wrote to the folk who by law oversee the whole “being an administrator” business (can’t remember who the legilsaltive body are, but quick google search would do it, am sure)
Surely if the SFA don’t deal with this shenanigans properly then celtic must get in touch with UEFA.