“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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LEFTCLICKTIC on 5TH JULY 2017 11:05 AM
Mc Cann………the wee man who likes to wave the rule book
and waive the rules…….
Some more updates on another new signing.”Any updates on Morelos”
“Yes,he is fat wee Sh—”
“Heart the size of a pea
Bring back Garner”
Was he playing”
Seems Pedros 1st choices are not those of the Bigots.”
O. G. Rafferty…that’s the one! ;-)
Thank God for the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom and UK HMRC – this verdict would have been strangled in a bigoted little independent Scotland. The crime would not have seen the light of day.
Jeez-oh, Mats – take a day off, pal
thetimreaper on 5th July 2017 11:18 am
As a shareholder and season ticket holder that’s exactly what I intend doing. I’m not much of letter writer but Celtic will be receiving a registered letter from me demanding action now that cheating on an industrial scale has be unequivocally confirmed by the supreme court.
I would also hope that fans of other clubs who were cheated of honours during the EBT years will voice similar concerns to their clubs.
Titles must be removed or it wont bode well for Scottish football.
How can games be won “fairly” on the park when many of those playing were there by dint of cheating, and therefore unfairly?
SALTIRES EN SEVILLA
Great read! Thanks!
Oh, it was the “Pink Times” and the “Green Citizen”.
Great memories of those two.
Pastry why dont you eff off back to the 19th century
OGRAFFERTY
Oh,had a few run-ins with Goram in the late 90s. He was always in the company of “important” people. And if they’s important,they’s gonna dress important.
Cardboard gangsters wi money. some of the locations you wouldn’t believe,but he always made sure he never attended the toilet without a minder.
Strange,that. But knackered my plans once or twice.
Cowiebhoy
Just got a message from Dena. She can’t post at the moment but wanted to pass on her condolences. YNWA
Kikinthenakas
Anyone any idea what other teams blogs are saying?
Thanks in advance.
Somehow the shame of Rangers is now being sheeted home to demanding action from the Celtic Board.
Give us a break lads.
Can`t we just enjoy the moment .
Just this once.
how does “improperly registered but ok to play” sfa man interpret this now ? i cant even remember the non-entities name
mon the stan.
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https://thisisfutbol.com/2017/07/rangers/collymore-orders-rangers-have-titles-stripped-after-court-ruling/
BMCUWP
Goram’s drinking session in Linlithgow 2 days before a Champions League game comes to mind.
If I remember correctly he was drinking Baileys IRISH Cream all day and night.
He brought it on himself.
The Rangers Tax Case Project
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MacJay
Yeah, and you can give us a break from your Enoch Powell quotes.
http://celticunderground.net/the-biggest-cheating-scandal-in-british-sporting-history/
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Strip Those Titles NOW…!
And Award Them To The Runners-Up.
Not Overly Concerned About The Stolen Cups.
Is Oor Canamalar On The Job….?
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Macjay, no. You may not have been cheated but many of us were.
Anyone know how Dave King’s plan to pay off the creditors and bring the old club out of liquidation is coming along…..?
TGM
Actually Virgil’s Aeneid .
Occasionally you get a good one on Munter Media.On the guy allegedly being ineligible,courtesy of Sky Sports,
“Probably discovered signs of Asbestos,picked up from his day job”
In saying that,many are clutching at this.If it happens,will be interesting to see Progres reaction to the Huns getting the OK to compete this season.They know all about the finances.
A CEILER GONOF RUST on 5TH JULY 2017 12:00 PM
Macjay, no. You may not have been cheated but many of us were.
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Whatever you think .
Macjay
You know what TD67 would say at this point, dont you?
You quoted Enoch Powell….Dont deny it.
Huns not too bothered on hunmedia as they say it’s an issue for “oldco” hun, but at least one of them gets it.
“People who don’t think this will effect us are being naïve, there will be a major play here to have all honours won in that period stripped, 14 of them”
Yes Mr hun there will be, you can be certain of that.
Macjay
You will be quoting Hitler next
If titles aren’t stripped then this will go down as our saddest day – the day when cheating was finally confirmed by the highest court in the land and nothing was done about it.
Hope I’m wrong
Btw,it was a 2-2 draw on the tax case. Hector won on away goals.
One last night would have seen Pedro sleep easily for a bit.
Naw,gubbed baith times,and I genuinely don’t know which to celebrate more.
The one that totally pisses me off,or the one that had me pissing myself laughing.
I’ll go for the former. That was a level of cheating which damned near destroyed us,caused schisms in our support,wrecked careers.
For me,that’s why the board need to act on this.
Last night was a sideshow,and that’s all they’ll ever be now.
Justice? Justice for the years of cheating,being laughed at,being systematically destroyed with the help of financial institutions,the football authorities who are in place-supposedly-to prevent it,the press who lapped it up and made a good soup-slurping living from it?
Naw. I would prefer vengeance. Vengeance for those who were cheated whether they played for us or other cheated clubs
Vengeance for the people who stuck their neck out,RTC,for instance. The Res 12 lads-who have had their identity splashed on every hun site
BARCABHOY and everyone else-btw,I’ll add Graham Spiers for his stuff in 2004 which cost him his job when Murray told the hoards to boycott the herald-for putting snippets in which allowed us to join the dots.
Et al,too many to mention.
But that’s just me. I don’t bear grudges.
Lightly…
Although I don’t live in the jurisdiction, I feel like making a wee donation to HMRC.
I also feel that this feeling will probably pass.
The intention was good.
GLASSTWOTHIRDSFULL on 5TH JULY 2017 12:01 PM
Anyone know how Dave King’s plan to pay off the creditors and bring the old club out of liquidation is coming along…..?
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Coming along nicely, only £170m needed now. After that it’s good to go.
Silly question, does this mean the players and recipients of the EBT’s will now have to pay the tax owed?
Cos thats what HMRC wants isnt it?
Delighted with the result of the SC today, there is now no hiding place for any person involved in this and they all need to be removed from any position in football administration.
I agree with the life time ban for Murray, but it involves more including Ogilivie who is at UEFa.
I was always troubled by the way referees were on side with them when we got competitive, I always wondered if they were on the payoll in some way it would not surprise me, maybe someone will start singing.
The media and the control over it will step up a gear as Jabba earns his coin, remeber Manchester has disappeared,
Celtic cannot ignore this judgement nor can Scottish football, everyone who went to a game has been cheated by Rangers 1872-2012. If this is attempted and allowed to happen the game is finished.
I would love charges to be brought because the deception the letters etc indicate serious intent that goes beyond adminstartive errors.
Trophies won in cups I would asterisk as you dont know who would win knock out competitions, leagues go to the second place club.
Recompense for the above would need to be negotiated with a new professional body to run the game, scrap the governing bodies and start again. Regan Doncaster Bryson immediately pick up your P45’s
Replace the committees and let them keep their blazers then tell them they are no longer needed, goodbye.
This is not an exhaustive list and I know many Celtic fans who have not lived to see this day, I’m thinking of them, I hope they are pleased today. We cannot let this chance pass us by, they are proven at the highest court in the land to have cheated, and cheated everyone who paid into a match thinking it was sport.
THOMTHETHIM FOR OSCAR OK on 5TH JULY 2017 12:08 PM
Although I don’t live in the jurisdiction, I feel like making a wee donation to HMRC.
I also feel that this feeling will probably pass.
The intention was good.
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The road to hell is paved with………. ?
:-)
Can anyone Clear this up ?
BBC states “In a strange twist, those individuals who were in receipt of an EBT may well benefit financially from a win for the tax man. A defeat for Rangers in liquidation would put the onus of liability on the company, and in this case, the liquidators.
A win for BDO would move the onus of responsibility to the individuals. Legislation in the draft finance bill means those in receipt of EBT loans from April 1999 onwards, must pay PAYE on them after 2019 if they have not settled with the tax man.”
So doz McCann, Smith et al get away with this ??
Always thought YOU personally are responsible for your tax business
Bournesouprecipe,
Who would win a fight between Rangers, humiliated as tax cheats and sevco, humiliated for being sh!te at fitba?
Cue the peepul’s hatred to intensify. I’ve already had a paedophile text from what I used to think of as a reasonable Sevconian.
Eurochamps67
TheresponsebythemainstreaminscotlandtothelasttwentyfourhourswillbesignificantCSC
3 Questions if anyone can answer please ..
1) What is the likely timescale for BDO to finalise everything ..
2) Based on today’s ruling, what is the total amount now owed ..
3) Has every single EBT recipient, now been identified ..
Thanks in advance ..