“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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Large portions of jelly and ice cream all round,I reckon.
I also reckon this all started when Souness arrived,then Murray.
Open secret that footballers in certain countries were paid slightly differently from your man in the street. In fact,Irving Scholar did the same for his Spurs stars in the 80s.
World in Action and The People exposed that.
Why would such as Wilkins and Francis come back to the UK from lax jurisdictions to join Rangers?
Why would Hateley leave the sun-drenched paradise of tax-free Monaco?
Not kidding,this goes back further than Murray’s ill-advised interview in the Record in 2000 where he literally showed a de Boer contract to prove he was “playing for petrol money”
Naw,I don’t want their tainted titles either,happy to settle for an asterisk.
But if we can prove any were stolen from TOMMY BURNS,I’ll have it.
Btw,Paul Gascoigne interview on Talksport about ten years ago,he said he had over £2m in an offshore account so he’d be fine.
I wonder where that came from?
The footballers, when accepting the offer of higher net remuneration through the
trust scheme which the side letters envisaged, were prepared to take the risk
that the scheme might not operate as planned
O.G.RAFFERTY on 5TH JULY 2017 11:11 AM
There’s just not enough tinfoil in the world
Chris Graham @ChrisGraham76 2m2 minutes ago
You need to have an engrained loser mentality to try to remove titles won fairly on the pitch. But of course we are dealing with losers.
We are dealing with cheats, por cireto
TULLY57
Happy birthday! You will remember this one for a while, no doubt!
Is it wrong that l cant stop laughing ?
Is it wrong that whenever I see a sevconian walking past me at work l cant keep the smirk off my face?
Is it wrong that I am mocking the meek?
Lol, who cares
Strip those titles
MTT HH
Regan’ another disastrous result for Scottish football…’ UEFA should be asked serious questions about the SFA cheats who rubber stamped all of this
Having set out the law in some detail above, I can be brief in applying it to
the facts as found by the majority of the FTT
* Note that Lord Hodge is applying the law to the facts as found by the MAJORITY decision of the FTT
O.G.RAFFERTY on 5TH JULY 2017 11:11 AM
There’s just not enough tinfoil in the world
Chris Graham @ChrisGraham76 2m2 minutes ago
You need to have an engrained loser mentality to try to remove titles won fairly on the pitch. But of course we are dealing with losers.
This from the world’s biggest expert in Onanism …
TURKEYBHOY on 5TH JULY 2017 11:11 AM
MOONBEAMSWD on 5TH JULY 2017 10:55 AM
My expectations:
a) SFA will do SFA
b) SPFL will do SFA
c) Celtic will do SFA
d) Powder will finally fall to a flooding accident and be announced that it requires an infinity to dry out before being kept dry again.
Sadly,I fear that your post is the most accurate today.The only entity which can change this is Celtic FC.
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Lads seriously, I think we should give Celtic every opportunity to act in the first instance. This kind of attitude does not help. All of our energies should be directed at Celtic. Tell them you want action.
Yeah, an article from CQN telling us how the PLC should tackle this corruption, would be welcome.
Time for Peter to show what he is all about.
Time Peter opened his mouth.
Yes indeed, lets hear it.
Celtic should head a coalition of all clubs cheated in Scottish Football e.g. losing finalists and clubs relegated over this period.
Clean out the governing bodies and remove trophies “won”.
Make no mistake, every club’s fans would be on board.
Okay, maybe not Kilmarnock.
But they have pissed off everybody at some point in last 15 years.
O.G.RAFFERTY on 5TH JULY 2017 11:11 AM
There’s just not enough tinfoil in the world
Chris Graham @ChrisGraham76 2m2 minutes ago
You need to have an engrained loser mentality to try to remove titles won fairly on the pitch. But of course we are dealing with losers.
This is the mentality of these morons.
Like saying”How can Lance Armstrong lose his titles,he won them on a bike”
Gooood Morning CQN
Wished my Auld Dad had lasted another 2 days
If so ( and thanks to Kikinthenakas) here’s how he would have been
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3uSTOHa4Im4
Incidentally I believe he knew what was coming, and decided to go before the mad rush :-)))
(Mind you not sure many will be heading to the Church)
Tully57 – hooopy birthday
Embramike
The statement from Sir David Murray perhaps reveals something that may have been troubling him for some time.
He is correct that the judgement does not mention any criminal activity – but t wouldn’t as it is a decision based on an interpretation of the relevant tax laws and the intention behind that law.
It does say however that this was an aggressive tax scheme and that the players etc were prepared to accept considerable risk at various stages of the scheme.
TheTimReaper
Just my expectations based on previous inaction.
I do hope I’m wrong but… well I’ve read this story before.
MWD
The absolute joy of watching Huns self implode over the last few years is a bitter sweet experience for me and I suspect many fellow CQN posters..
Many of us take to these pages to share our grief and mourning…the bitterness for me comes from the tragedy that both my father and grandfather lived through decades of Hun cheating but were denied the joy of the last 5 years of reckoning. For that reason I intend to enjoy it for them.
The truth will out..
From BBC
“The Courts decision is not expected to have any material or financial impact on “Rangers” now as the Club is owned by a different company “.
And so the deflection and obfuscation gathers apace
Cheats then, Cheats….and then they died.
HH
36.
The central issue in this appeal is whether it is necessary that the employee
himself or herself should receive, or at least be entitled to receive, the remuneration
for his or her work in order for that reward to amount to taxable emoluments.
Promotional posters at the ready for when they are drawn away to ayr united.
Come down to ayr and see the honest men
Pretty poor of the court to announce this today. Could they not have held it back a couple of days to give us more time to laugh at Sevco getting knocked out of Europe?
They cheated the welfare state, the NHS, the police, councils, schools. They cheated the Army and other services.
Did THEY not cheat Her Maj whom they profess to love and adore.
Brilliant post from Saltires en Sevilla. Jogged so many good memories and agree completely with title stripping. They should all be awarded to 2nd place teams and financial compensation sought.
Murray as usual, pointing the finger elsewhere with his statement emphasising the liquidation process started in Whyte’s watch.
I never thought I could dislike any person more than Thatcher or Tebbit , but Murray has now caught up with them.
I would love him to do jail time but that will never happen as if charged with any criminal offence he will develope an Ernest Saunders like health condition . I would be satisfied with him losing his knighhood but this too is unlikely to happen.
MWD,
I agree that the board/PL have been missing in action so far,
but today is the day that many people,myself included,have said that
they must speak out if the decision was upheld,lets hope they have the balls to do so
And to think we Celtic Football Club,hire Parks Coaches,to take players and staff to all games,its time Celtic changed to another Bus Operator.any thoughts on hiring from another bus operator,
Remember that Saunders had a Lourdes size recovery from illness.
Or so we were told.
Minty Park or Hampden for Jabba today….decisions decisions….
Gordybhoy64
I’m expecting nothing from them. At best a bland statement re. we are looking at the judgement and will act in accordance after 100 years of thought. Maybe!
MWD
Saltires, terrific post
Our board now have to take some action on top of the good work they have done over the past year
TURKEYBHOY et al
Not really a day for pedantry but since it’s a journalist you’re quoting,
Engrained wouldn’t make it past a trainee sub-editor.
http://grammarist.com/spelling/engrain-ingrain/
I think he needs to ask Jim Traynor to learn to spell before he repeats his L5 garbage for him.
Ok it is a glorious morning, The entire country should be wanting those titles stripped not just Celtic, after all who is to say that Aberdeen or Hearts would not have went further and performed better in every competition if they hadn’t been put out by a team of stars that were playing illegally as the money used to purchase the was sourced illegally? Ok Celtic always finished a point or two behind Rangers in those so called 9 in a row days however there were loads of clubs in Scotland and also Europe who were being defeated by this illegal team. So lets broaden the scope here and involve those European clubs as well in this valid claim for TITLE STRIPPING. Lets wake up Europe and UEFA to this DISGUSTING CORRUPTION THAT IS FESTERING AWAY LIKE A BIGOTED SECTARIAN VIRUS WITHIN THE SCOTTISH GAME AND BRINGING IT TO ITS KNEES ON AND OFF THE FIELD. LETS ALL VENT OUR SENTIMENTS ON THE RADIO AND ON THE SOCIAL MEDIA, WRITE TO THE PRESS TELLING THEM YOUR GOING TO BOYCOTT THEIR RAGS IF THEY DON’T HIGHLIGHT THIS FRAUD AND LETS GET RID OF THOSE STOLEN TARNISHED TITLES AND THIS CORRUPTION ONE AND FOR ALL. I HOPE YOUR READING THIS AND HEARING IT ALL MR DUNGCASTER AND YER WEE “IM WEARING A BLAZER AS WELL” TRANSPARENT SIDEKICK.
Some Munter on Munter Media asking how did Herrera play last night.Some replies,
“Looked like he should be working in a Kebab shop”
“Looked like he was towing a Caravan around the park”
Oh dear,this was the guy that was exciting them all last week.
Turkeybhoy…you are wrong…Lance Armstrong couldn’t possibly have won those races, the huns weren’t there…(somebody stole their bike)…
I have laughed that much from last night my head hurts :)))))))))))))))
till later all.
Be Good.
BMCUW
It was acknowledged at the Whyte trial that the football authorities knew of two Murray schemes, the EBT one they lost on today and another that he ran from the start – the one that allowed that human bag of loyalist excrement who kept goal for them 25 years ago to claim in court he was scraping by on his basic wage that was less than his Celtic counterpart. The details of that scheme, or scam, for short, have yet to come out.
I’m sure there’s nothing to see there, move on now you uppity grinning Fenians
MWD,
i know you expect nothing,
just hope you get a nice surprise
WEEBOBBYCOLLINS
Was it the St Etienne one? Speak to Craigy
THOMTHETHIM FOR OSCAR OK on 5TH JULY 2017 11:00 AM
Aye , Thom.
Similar tale for myself .
My first game , I think , was 1954 cup final .
http://www.thecelticwiki.com/page/1954-04-24%3A+Celtic+2-1+
Aberdeen%2C+Scottish+Cup+-+Pictures
My uncle and my 7 years older brother were those who gave me the love of the Tims which we share.
A cause . Never a pastime .
My old uncle Alex , a Glasgow heidie , had a burning sense of the injustices he had seen during his lifetime which he passed on to me , but he lived to enjoy the 7-1 game and our triumph in Lisbon.
Today I think of him and my late brother.
Hail Hail to them and to you and yours.