Let’s be clear from the off, Craig Whyte is not your friend. He was not the man who “murdered” Rangers any more than Alasdair Johnston, his accuser, who was paid to ensure the club was run in an appropriate manner in the years prior to its crash into liquidation.
If Whyte has your job, your pension or your wellbeing in his hands, you would likely fair no better than those who have had the misfortune to be vulnerable to his exploitative nature before. He is the worst manifestation of our corporate system.
As yesterday’s verdict at Glasgow High Court established, he was merely a collaborative player in the drama which saw Murray Group shed its liabilities to Rangers fans into an all-too certain, and limited, future.
The SFA were right to quickly fine and sine die Whyte, despite the fact that he has no inclination to become involved in football again. What the Association must now do is examine the role of those who had explicit and executive oversight responsibility of managing Rangers through the process of its decline and sale to a character with a lengthy corporate irresponsibility charge sheet.
Whyte was not in any way a bad choice for the job required at Rangers. For those with most to gain, he was the perfect choice. He was, in fact, the only choice, if the desired result was to be delivered – and it was.
No one else would have had the stomach to pick up a corporate basket case, manoeuvring bank debt, securitising years of ticket sales, brazingly stiffing public service funding, and in doing so, freeing Murray Group from a disabling liability.
What do I care? I predicted, then watched, Rangers inevitable crash into administration and liquidation. Patience and thick skin was all that was required through the years of bravado from Ibrox. Those who shouted down the glaringly obvious in support of these charlatans have been shown up as malleable accomplices.
There is one outstanding matter I do care about. In my opinion, Sir David Murray did not discharge his duties as the ultimate controlling director of Rangers FC in a responsible manner. If there is one issue which every Scottish football fan can unite on, it is surely this.
The deplorable sequence of events at that club, from it’s exploitation of the Employee Benefit Trust scheme to pay millionaires tax free sums through a system which was designed to allow employers to aid staff through periods of hardship.
To its submissions to the SFA on taxable overdue. To the shredding of correspondence, and failure to disclose other correspondence.
Rangers were a huge influence on our game; on the SFA, the SPL, the media, and more. The executives concerned had placemen who protected them. The SFA must now charge those responsible for bringing the game into disrepute.
More sine die punishments would mean little to men who are already finished with the game, but it would be a hugely significant act of faith towards the paying public, of all colours. It is time for us all to unite against the men who really did sell the jerseys.
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WITS,
you wont believe it but PP have Jeremy as favourite to be next PM,unbelievable
ERNIE LYNCH on 9TH JUNE 2017 12:46 AM
SNAKE PLISSKEN on 9TH JUNE 2017 12:43 AM
The SNP have peaked. That’s clear. You can’t fool all of the people all of the time.
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Well of course they peaked. They took 56 out of 59 seats in the last GE. Any result of 30 – 40 seats is still a ringing endorsement of Nicola Sturgeon. I voted for the SNP in the last election. I voted for Corbyn and his manifesto today. Unless there is a seismic change of leadership and direction in Scottish Labour, there is no chance I will vote for them in the Holyrood elections. None zero nada. A vote for Corbyn doesn’t equate with a vote for Dugdale. And it is in the Scottish elections which will be the real test of the SNP’s unprecedented popularity.
Lab majority now 12/1
FFS !!!!
Make that 10/1
Stauner.com
Annabel goldie’ get her back and she’ll get my vote. Mom ya big comfy couch get in there.
WITS oot
OMG
As the young people say
Delaneys
Spark up that doobie
I think I will ask the butler to chill some champer
What larks
Up the workers
Hills have Hung Parliament at 1/5. The next PM will be from the party with most seats. If Tories lose majority May is gone. Boris?
Hark.
Fat lady mute.
11/10 Corbyn
6/4 May
WITS
You think Jeremy can win this?
HH
SNP set to lose more seats than ACGR lost golf balls in Lisbon!
SNP Hold Kilmarnock & Loudoun
WITS
Tory Billionaires betting on Jeremy to soften the blow:)))
Do right wing tory twats from Australia get a vote in this?
Sam Freedman @Samfr 7m7 minutes ago
Jeremy Corbyn is now FAVOURITE to be PM on betfair. This is not a drill.
Green Man
We have to believe
Heading down to Newcastle tomorrow for a few daws swally,
but canny drag myself away from these election results
WITS
Sparkin up a doobie and dreamin of a Socialist government and May losing her head in a guillotine in George Square Glasgow.
Glesga Anarchists to rule.
Evens Corbyn
7/4 May
8/1 Lab Majority
Bloody hell
Mhairi Black keeps her seat in Paisley
Mhairi Black holds seat
DD..WITS
Socialism tonight, at last, or im going mental in that street….mask and cape:)
Yaaaaarrrrggggghhhh
Come on
PLeased for Mhairi Black.
Listening to the new Labour MP in Rutherglen makes my heart bleed. We’re on a route back to where we’ve always been under the yolk of British imperialism.
How can people be so feckin stupid?
Scotland deserves the back seat of the bus when 85% (my figure based on experience) of the available electorate are as thick as shite.
Treeza may is going to love this divided Scotland and we will suffer.
TGM
Oor revolution will be televised.
ACGR
Teresa May is toast
THE GREEN MAN SAYS SACK THE BOARD
The Flanman Cometh!!
A CEILER GONOF PROUD OF THE LISBON SCLABAWERS on 9TH JUNE 2017 1:26 AM
Do right wing tory twats from Australia get a vote in this?
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MACJAY1 FOR NEIL LENNON on 9TH JUNE 2017 1:37 AM
A CEILER GONOF PROUD OF THE LISBON SCLABAWERS on 9TH JUNE 2017 1:26 AM
Do right wing tory twats from Australia get a vote in this?
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How about Irishmen ?
Corbyn 10/11
May 6/4
Lab majority drifting out to 12/1
DD
Bugsy Malone type Machine Gun for Roof Davidshun, splat that big bawheid for starters:)
HH
Skybet ignoring my request-a-bet of :
‘Young Etonian to be shown in tears from Tory Party headquarters by 4.am’
Fascists.
Lads
Bookies vote for their bank accounts.
For nothing else.
labour gain Vale of Clwyd from Con
WITS
T May is burnt to a cinder toast.
She will be flung in the bin. Which is nice.
Horrible witch.
Starry Plough
Ive got all sorts of flan based anarchism planned:)
Cant wait till i take over the City Chambers.
The sashers better hide behind their aprons.
HH
SNP hold Dunbartonshire West
Delaneys,
we are stuck with a Nat