“The appeal is dismissed.” With those words at the Supreme Court in London at 9:52 this morning, Rangers tax cheating was established as fact. The charlatans who manipulated Scottish football fans were shown to be the disgrace they are.
Rangers made unlawful payments, totalling many millions of pounds, to footballers, who, by the club’s own admission in court, they would have been unable to recruit if they had to pay tax and National Insurance contributions for.
They lied to HMRC.
They also hid documents from HMRC, which only came to light during a City of London Police raid on Ibrox.
They hid documents from the SPL and SFA, failing to honestly register dozens of players.
They cheated the tax man.
They cheated the welfare state, the NHS, the police, councils, schools. They cheated the Army and other services.
The SPL’s (now called Scottish Professional Football League) Commission into these matters must now be set aside. It was conducted on the assumption that Rangers acted legally. Lord Nimmo Smith was clear that his conclusions were predicated on this point. A fresh commission is required, we cannot just allow the biggest cheats in British sporting history wander off into the distance.
The SFA has failed to call Sir David Murray to account, or the other directors of Rangers, who had explicit responsibility to ensure the club acted within the laws of the land and within the rules of football, both of which it failed to do.
Murray should be sine died. God knows, I cherish every moment Dave King controls things at Ibrox, but he was a director of Rangers with legal responsibility for its actions. They should all be censured.
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* Farewell to The Stone Roses;
* Hillsborough: The Truth.
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Pardon Cowiebhoy
Right saw CH4 news with them saying numerous Football clubs
Rugby league Rugby union ect to be chased.
What happens when one of them says right so we can stay in same
ground same directors same team same strips we just have to switch holding
company and TAX bill belongs to OLDCO.
Where do we sign up ?
TET
I agree with you 100%
HH
A change is gonna come, written by Sam Cooke was one of his many attempts at helping the Civil Rights movement.
Dylan had released Blowin in the wind in 1963 and Sam wanted to put his own message out there.
Easier said than done, as he knew that if his song was overtly political then the radio stations wouldn’t play it. He came up with a change is gonna come and released it in 1964 a year after Blowin in the Wind.
Both powerful songs but cleverly enough written by both that they got airplay.
Well done to Bob and Sam.
Hail Hail
Somebody just bought a couple of things from my shop, one for 9.95 the other for 6.95, grand total of 16.90, thank feck for the shipping charges :-)
*BBBZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz*
THE EXILED TIM on 5TH JULY 2017 10:08 PM
Somebody just bought a couple of things from my shop, one for 9.95 the other for 6.95, grand total of 16.90, thank feck for the shipping charges :-)
Shipping charges?
I think I am gonna have to cancel that order!
Copyright on “tittle the strip”
What a braw t- shirt for all clubs to wear when marching on Humpdammed
And yes I wid put man boobs on t shirt for emphasis!
Bestseller
Braw
DD
6ft 7….ha
You can jump on my shoulders, reckon that would take us to about 11 ft 6:)
HH
Ffs lads
Rangers and sevco both get hit with their 2 worst results in the space of 12 hours and some people come on here threatening other tims with violence
Madness
Big Packy
I was down at Carden Park country estate last week, is that West Cheshire ? Just curious
There was a 6’7″ guy at my meeting there :-)))
He’s my MD
AB79
So your real name is Georgina, always wondered about you :-)
HH
All right big packy you have made your point.
No need for the abuse. If you are genuine it will be obvious to all that meet you at CQN corner.
Why not just leave it
THE EXILED TIM on 5TH JULY 2017 10:23 PM
I am outed
Did aye aye?
https://twitter.com/gibbygibbo1/status/882367752719265792
Davido …. you remember the first song?! you must be much younger, or much more romantic, than me! or probably both!
:)
Has ‘my dad is bigger than your dad ‘ been replaced with ‘ my son is bigger than your son’…?
https://twitter.com/gibbygibbo1/status/882642594345492484
Candyman, is that not the huns new winger? Oh no thats Candyass.
Few deletions there id imagine:)
Calm doon everyone.
The big fight is now upon us and we need unity not acrimony.
SFA have played their card which was predictable. Up to the fans to call their bluff. The status quo is NOT acceptable. (especially Down, down)
I think the demands should be clear and not ambiguous by any stretch of the Hun imagination.
Titles stripped and asterisk inserted.
SFA restructured as clearly their interpretation of the rules have made them un-enforceable in any real sense. Their statement showing an unwillingness to see natural sporting justice as understood the world over.
I don’t think that there is a willingness in the boardrooms of Scotland to force the agenda here. As always….it’s back to the fans acting in concert to show them the light.
Ps Cowiebhoy- my condolences and hope Friday goes ok. Loved your line “a green day”
AoW
……ah, that smell of greasepaint……
Delaneys
FWIW, I don’t think Big Packy is a hun, my hundar is usually spot on, I think the drink is involved tho, that for sure I know about.
HH
It’s a funny old world, the new Huns were pumped out of Europe last night at the 1st attempt against the (now second) worst team ever to grace European football. I’ve not laughed so much side Submarine Sunday. Today the Oldco had what was left of it’s reputation well and truly trashed forever. Utter humiliation on a scale unimaginable. Yet somehow they are claiming some kind of victory thanks to the SFA while some Tims start tearing each other apart and get ready to rip up the season tickets. Come on folks, keep the head, there is a long way to go with this one. As i said earlier all energy should be directed at Celtic. Phone calls, emails, letters. Whatever it is get your message across that you want action and then let due process take place.
Crowd fund legal action – the only answer, we raised enough with Res 12 after all and it was mostly us. This time I think others will join us.
Guys we can all make an impact here.
I have not signed up to the HCTS and after the statement from the SFA will not be taking tickets for ANY SC or LC games. I have already been boycotting Hampden for years.
I would urge EVERY supporter of EVERY club to make it clear that we will turn our backs on every SFA and SPFL event.
Does anyone have any influence on the Tartan Army?
Can you imagine the impact if no one bought tickets and attended future International games?
What about organising a blanket boycott of the last home game of our WC group? Let’s face it Scotland are not going to Russia anyway!
That would let everyone (hopefully) see the strength of feeling and shame the SFA on an international stage.
And if we Celtic fans find that we’re out on a limb regarding this then so be it.
Faster than a speeding bullet,
More powerful than a locomotive,
Able to delete inappropriate posts with a single finger,
Is it bird? Is it a bloke? No it’s Supermod.
Jimmynotpaul and Mike in Toronto, I have saw two other soul greats , Bobby Womack and the Reverend Al Green, sing a Change is gonna come when I have saw each live .
Both do it justice .
My hope that any united front ( that might sound to lefty for some posters lol) from supporters of other clubs to go for the SFA following today’s verdict. Is not scuppered by inter club rivalries.
Its all or nothing now to get Scotland’s football administrators to follow their own rules and reguations. How I wish the late Turnbull Hutton was still here . He woud not have taken the SFA mince as would Fergus if he was still involved in Scottish foitball.
Big Packy
Sometimes posting when the drink has been taken is no the best idea, trust me I know.
HH
the green man.if i was out of order i appoligise im a feckin tim but if you all think iam a prod ill feck off but on my mothers life im a tim.
If anyone is thinking of a flutter on the Irish Open golf (unlikely for most, I accept that :-)) …..
You could do worse than a wee e/w shout on Bradley Dredge (80/1) and Matt Fitzpatrick (28/1).
Both have some decent form of late and Dredge has a tendency to do well in the Irish open.
Wouldn’t go chucking fortunes at it, but £1 ew gives an interest, seeing as there is very little else happening in the sporting world right now……!
Rory Mc is hot favourite and could well win if he can cure his recent putting crapness. I think he is worth opposing this week.
Murderators deleting my posts. Why?
BIG PACKY, DELANEYS DUNKY, GREEN MAN SAYS SACK THE BOARD and POGMATHONYAHUN AKA LAIRD OF THE SMILES:
Please stop if you want to take this further contact P67 and get each other’s e-mail addys. Today is a day for rejoicing and standing together.
Dermot Desmond was playing in the Irish open pro -am today with Rory McIlroy and Per Guardiola as his playing partners.
I wonder if Dermot mentioned anything to Pep about Patrick Roberts ‘ future plans ?
Thetimreaper- Submarine Sunday was my suggestion. Made me smile reading it there.
Thx
BIg Packy
TET gave you some good advice, id listen.
BIG PACKY on 5TH JULY 2017 10:51 PM
My wife is a prod ( as you say) and a Tim.
I thought we were open to all?
You are welcome here, as everybody else is.
HH
CRC
I suspect that the short but succinct ruling this morning if not followed through to its natural conclusion, challenging the almost immediate SFA statement followed by insisting that the rules are applied retrospectively by the SPFL will result in mass desertions from the Celtic season ticket holders”club” next season, including myself, Mrs RobinBhoy, my brother and mate as a minimum.
We won’t be alone in refusing to support a rigged game.
Get it sorted Celtic!