“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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AULDHEID on 6TH JULY 2017 12:24 PM
Just to be clear about what I consider the bottom line is.
I don’t care whether or not the football authorities accept the same club lie. It seems clear that they do.
I don’t care whether titles are stripped are not. They won’t be.
What I do care about is what Celtic do about these matters.
I don’t think I’m asking for much, just for Celtic to condemn the cheating and corruption. Whether that leads to any remedial action or not is, to me, irrelevant, or at least secondary.
It’s what Celtic do that matters.
If they say nothing, if they do nothing, they’re complicit. If others want to support that, fair enough, but it’s not for me.
Use this when you hear ‘club and company are separate” argument …
https://twitter.com/AitkensDrum/status/882730127368519680
On a different tack (for a while), deadline for signing players for Q2 games v Linfield is 11pm tonight (apart from a last minute wild card) , so it looks like we go with what we have, which should be more than enough.
Also, due to the date shift to 5pm on 14th, the 3rd round qualifiers will be drawn on the morning of the game. The signing deadline for Q3 ties is 11pm 20th July – 2 weeks from today.
Seems like the Boyata injury is more than a knock, so as we play our first home match of the season in the friendly v Lyon 22 hours after the Linfield CL Q2 tie, our resources will be stretched that little bit more.