There is so much material to wade through as a result of the excellent BBC documentary, Rangers – The men who sold the jerseys. Much of it is of only passing interest to us, although we will examine it in more detail in the days to come, one part, however, concerns Celtic and Celtic fans more any anyone else in Scotland.
BBC have evidence that the following players had side letters contracting payment to Employee Benefit Trusts:
Alex Rae, Arthur Numan, Barry Ferguson, Carlos Cuellar, Christian Nerlinger, Craig More, Dado Prso, Dan Eggen, Egil Ostenstad, Fernando Ricksen, Gavin Rae, Gregory Vignal, Jean-Alain Boumsong, Jerome Bonnissel, Julien Rodriguez, Kris Boyd, Lorenzo Amoruso, Kevin Muscat, Libor Sionko, Marvin Andrews, Michael Ball, Mikel Arteta, Michael Mols, Nacho Novo, Paolo Vanoli, Pedro Mendes, Neil McCann, Olivier Bernard, Peter Lovenkrands, Ronald De Boer, Sasa Papac, Ronald Waterreus, Sotirios Kyrgiakos, Stefan Klos, Steven Davis, Steven Thompson, Thomas Buffel and Zurab Khizanishvilli
The BBC list a large number of other Rangers players and non-playing staff who benefited from EBTs but they have no documentary evidence of side letters.
Scottish FA registration procedures are clear:
Rule 2.2.1
Unless lodged in accordance with Procedures Rule 2.13 a Non-Recreational [professional]Contract Player Registration Form will not be valid unless it is accompanied by the contract entered into between the club concerned and the player stating all the terms and conditions in conformity with the Procedures Rule 4.
“Will not be valid” being the key point.
The SFA’s Articles of Association also say:
Furthermore, all payments, whether made by the club or otherwise, which are to be made to a player solely relating to his playing activities must be fully recorded within the relevant written agreement with the player prior to submission to this Association and/or the recognised football body of which his club is in membership.
Article 98 states:
A club making payment of any kind to a player, either amateur or professional, must obtain from the player a written receipt for the same showing details of the payment, and any club under the jurisdiction of the Association must produce such receipts to the Association when called upon to do so. For a player registered by means of a Full Professional Form, a club must produce on request receipts for the wages paid to him in terms of his agreement lodged with the Association.
Documentary evidence exists that Rangers played 38 players with invalid registrations between 2000 and 2010 (the last year financial information is available for Rangers) . Results from all games involving these players, which is all games Rangers have played since 2000, are void.
I am sure the BBC will forward all evidence to the SFA and SPL for investigation.
You were cheated out of five league championships. Fortunately, evidence exists and the history books will be rewritten.
The SFA and SPL must immediately take action. A statement must be made this morning reflecting the gravity of the situation and reassuring fans that our game’s administrators are able to deal with this matter.
12-in-a-row! Who would have thought it!
Just a quick comment on Juninho. Juninho had an EBT for a short period while he was at Celtic. He had no side letters or contracts from Celtic and tax was paid on money paid into the EBT. ‘Nothing to see here’.
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Paul Baxendale Walker looked like he had just won third place in a Donald Findlay lookalike competition.
My take on it? BBC only put in what they could absolutely prove in a court of law. There will have been reams of stuff left out.
So some people aren’t named as EBT recipients? Hmmmm…. look at the wider pattern of evidence and draw your own conclusions on that.
This is cheating on an industrial scale. British sport has never seen anything like it.
An EBT 11
Wattereus
Bonissel Eggen Malcolm Petilla
Capucho Alex Rae Nerlinger Vanoli
Ostenstad Nieto
What a team that was, worth risking the very existence of your club, eh Dave ?!
Sixteen roads to Golgotha on 24 May, 2012 at 06:58 said:
When do Celtic get all those trophies back?
Hand them over cheating scum.
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It’s gonna require a very skilled engraver to turn ‘Cheats 11’ in to Celtic FC but I think it can be done. I’d be happy with a big score through their name just by way of reminder.
Expulsion with immediate effect is what I want.
Get it done before Newco, promote second from each division below, get a junior team in to Div 3. (Hey a man can dream)
re Paul67’s leader……….
Documentary evidence exists that Rangers played 38 players with invalid registrations between 2000 and 2010 (the last year financial information is available for Rangers) . Results from all games involving these players, which is all games Rangers have played since 2000, are void.
I am sure the BBC will forward all evidence to the SFA and SPL for investigation.
You were cheated out of five league championships. Fortunately, evidence exists and the history books will be rewritten.
The SFA and SPL must immediately take action. A statement must be made this morning reflecting the gravity of the situation and reassuring fans that our game’s administrators are able to deal with this matter.
12-in-a-row! Who would have thought it!
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Twice during that period I bet on Celtic to win the league and lost the bet, total amount £1,000, who do I go to for compensation?
Hx2
Is tbere a reason why Mr no second name and sally was not in tbe Ebt list. Is there a part ii from the BBC.
Anyone else notice the rancurs supporters room when being interviewed?
Just all TFOD memorabilia not a White horse or red hand in sight.
I wonder why the bouncy bouncy shirt was hung over his mirror to cover it. Are they that scared of their own reflection? Or maybe there was something printed on it?
Hahahahahahahaha.
Great stuff last night
Top of the morning to you all from sunny Fife.
MattE on 24 May, 2012 at 00:42 said:
Gutted for Ally and Walter
Working honestly and with dignity over all these seasons and all those sneaky players and back room staff were taking dodgy payments behind their backs.
It’s Disgusting that 2 heroes have been treated so shabbily.
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Absolutely shocking that these two fine upstanding citizens–both are honoured in the website Famous Scottish Freemasons–have been duped by those they employed and those who employed them.
Time for an enquiry into the scandal of the Honest Two Who Never Knew.
So nI don’t buy the rags but from reading other forums it seems that the main focus is on D&P while the years of systematic cheating merit only a comment or two. Oh dear.
nice pleasant morning…
Even sunny in bridgeton….well it was as my train stopped there….
blantyretim on 24 May, 2012 at 07:29 said:
nice pleasant morning…
Even sunny in bridgeton….well it was as my train stopped there….
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Good, they don’t like day light. Should keep them in their beds until well past their normal 1PM rise………
Morning all from gay Paree, the good weather’s back (forecast is 27C max).
As you say, Paul, the evidence is in, and it is damning.
However, a quick browse thru the on-line editions of the papers this morning shows that their main focus is Duph and Ffelps. They are still purposely avoiding the main point: the years of corruption and cheating!
The EBT Beneficiaries Table posted by the BBC is incredible:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-18148818
There are at least two other mugshots that I expected to see on there…
I can only conclude that the list – massive as it is – is only partial.
Hopefully, we will see the full list when Hector is ready.
RFC(ia): Time to Pay the Wages of Sin
Morning,
The SFA/SPL better not sit in silence this morning.
I wonder if Duff&Duffer will file it along with Craigy bhoys, we are still waiting on his.
RANGERS administrators Duff & Phelps
last night threatened to sue the BBC
over claims a senior partner in the
firm was aware of Craig Whyte’s
scheme to buy Rangers using cash
from the controversial Ticketus deal.
The license must be terminated.
FPLG still in hiding?
Of the 63 Rangers employees that last
night’s documentary claimed were
paid through EBTs, the tables stated
that Barry Ferguson received £2.5m,
former manager Alex McLeish £1.7m,
with others in the seven-figure
bracket including Christian Nerlinger,
on £1.8m, Michael Ball, on £1.4m,
Ronald de Boer on £1.2m and Nacho
Novo on £1.1m. Dozens of Scottish
players also benefitted, including
pundits Billy Dodds and Neil McCann,
with the lowest sum recorded the
£7,500 paid into an EBT on behalf of
Steven Smith.
The most intriguing beneficiary is
former Rangers manager Graeme
Souness. He was paid £30,000 in 2001,
ten years after he left the club, and
while he was manager of Blackburn
Rovers. The programme alleged that
HMRC believed this was an illegal
payment related to Rangers
midfielder Tugay Kerimoglu’s move
to Blackburn five weeks later.
Many of these players had side-letters
detailing the appearance money and
bonuses that were paid using EBTs,
the programme set out. Murray
himself has previously admitted that
these payments were not disclosed to
the football authorities because they
were “discretionary”. However, both
the SFA and SPL rules state that all
payments to players relating to
football activities must be lodged.
If the BBC’s findings are correct, it
raises the possibility that all Rangers’
key players in the title successes of
1999, 2000, 2003 and 2005, will have
been improperly registered. With
Steven Davis, Kris Boyd and Novo
also on the BBC’s EBT list, the
legitimacy of the title successes in
2009, 2010 and 2011 would also come
into question.
The programme will raise fresh
questions over the SPL’s 11-week
investigation into possible non-
disclosure of payments by Rangers
between 1998 and 2010, conducted by
legal firm Harper Macleod. The SPL
issued a statement hours before the
programme aired, which appeared to
suggest that the assistance they
require from Rangers to conduct their
inquiry – which will lead to an
independent commission determining
sanctions if it is determined the Ibrox
club has a case to answer – had not
been forthcoming.
“The investigation into the EBT
payments made by Rangers FC is
being actively pursued on behalf of
the SPL,” said the SPL statement. “All
relevant documents, materials and
information have been sought from
Rangers FC and we look forward to
receiving full cooperation from the
club and its administrators in
providing everything that it and they
have access to and which is required
for the investigation to be completed.”
Among the wide-ranging group of
Ibrox officials who last night’s
programme claims received EBTs,
current SFA president Campbell
Ogilvie appears an incongruous
figure. Company secretary when the
scheme was first implemented, he
issue a statement denying any
knowledge of it, beyond the £95,000
sum he received through a trust. “I
was not aware of which players
received EBTs,” Mr Ogilvie said. “And,
having been advised that the scheme
was being operated in accordance
with the regulations, I therefore did
not raise any aspect of this with the
Scottish FA.”
Anyone else see a “not proven” verdict coming here?
Morning All,
Just how rank did you need to be NOT to be offered an ebt?? ;)
well done MD……………..was totally p***ing masel last night
love the bit when he went nto interview the guy…cant remember his name……….
erm, oh yes i remember, “twice bankrupt born again christian”
love it!
anywho off to work
Philbhoy – It’s just the beginning! on 24 May, 2012 at 07:50 said
Anyone else see a “not proven” verdict coming here?
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Celtic will be chargerd with forcing Rangers into disreputable behaviour by winning the European cup
Hiya From a Clement Spring Morning in the Chilterns…
Superb effort from P67 yesterday, rattling out excellent articles one after t’uther – His Blognessabounds.
Well done Mark Daly – notice he didn’t mention Celtic or any other SPL/SFA culpability. No Gers indispensability, refreshing to see/hear/read a solid well researched BS free piece of journalism.
However D&P should not be interupted!
Seems like Mr Daly put the cat among the pigeons…
Good morning all from Manchester.
So many comedy moments.
Cmon Prince Albert.
Give us a Fenian King.
For every fiver Celtic put down I will put down eh no sorry let me get this right the Murray Group will put down , oops eh yes where was I oh yes the bank will put in a tenner and will continue to bankroll the club until they themselves are taken over and then the true state of the Murray group becomes apparent. Seems the TBOS had a few bampots working for them dishing out carte blanche to Murray to achieve his impossible Euro dream. Maybe they had EBT’s as well!
Pablo
Morning All, great stuff last night. But I have a question. If D&P are removed now, who would take over administration – could HMRC step in (and hopefully close them down)?
Amazing that some broadsheets think that the threatened legal action of the administrators against the BBC is the top story to come out of last night. The Scotsman take a bow.
Surely if they all pay their loans back the club could be saved?
I am Sparticus.
Reading FF from last night, getting themselves excited re. Juninho’s EBT. Anyone who points out that we did nothing wrong is being accused of being a ‘yahoo’. Best line of the night though has to be…….
Questions need to be asked about why they were getting advice from a guy coming from the Bank of England while we were getting ours from a porn star ffs!!!!
Hello Prince Albert here!
One thing I’m confused about is the wee tax case. Does this not cover a period back in 1999. Where these payments captured by the small tax case captured by the SFA?
ON Souness there are 2 possibilities.
1. It was a bung
2. It was a withdrawal as a result of an EBT when he was employed by Rangers in the late eighties/ early nineties. Where EBTs operated at this time? If so were they declared in player contracts?
I’m sure Mr Souness will be happy to answer these questions.
i have a feeling there is more to come out.
3.
This is just the beginning…
Morning all from a glorious North Ayrshire.
I haven’t been able to get on since about 5.30 yesterday evening. No need really. I’m sure there are many happy Tims all over the world adding their tuppence worth to the glee.
I watched the programme last night with a retired acquaintance. He had already informed me that he was a class mate of Brian Quinn at St Gerard’s. But as he was leaving, he let slip, almost diffidently, that he had been in Lisbon on that other glorious day. It got me thinking; most of those who made that pilgrimage must be getting on. (At least 2 of my Dad’s pals who went with him have died.) Wouldn’t it be an idea for Celtic to invite those remaining to a celebration at Celtic Park, sometime soon? I’m probably saying this because my auld Dad is 89 and might not make the Golden Jubilee.
Anyway, now I’ll go back to read the joyful contributions that I’m sure make up the blog.
Good morning CQNers,
So, now we know the extent of the sheer hypocrisy of those involved in this scandal, but who the hell is going to resolve the myriad crimes and injustices?
Paul67 wrote yesterday that he expects Doncaster to survive and with Paul’s track record you’ve gotta believe that’ll happen so has Doncaster the stomach to deliver?
I’m not convinced
BBC documentary from last night on youtube.
Sorry I tried link thing and failed
Part 1 – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3wA9hzGQGs&sns=em
Part – 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dy0ZEBiShRA&sns=em
Part – 3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKQtYiC9rG8&sns=em
Part – 4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYOuKPwe-ow&sns=em
Kayal 33 – “Questions need to be asked about why they were getting advice from a guy coming from the Bank of England while we were getting ours from a porn star ffs!!!! ”
Brilliant, Absolutely brilliant.
Here’s the Hun team that played v Celtic when Juninho played. If Juninho’s payments not registered with the SFA/SPL then does the game get marked as a 3-3 draw?
Klos, Hutton, Boumsong, Moore, Vignal, Ricksen, Mladenovic, (Thompson 87), Alex Rae, Arveladze (Lovenkrands 53), Prso, Novo.
Or because nearly every single player for the Huns on EBT mean that we win 36-3?
Just lit a Candle for Marvin Andrews……..
and the wind blew it Out ?
One of yesterdays most shocking developments was that Neil “Farry” Doncaster hadnt received the rfcs requested paperwork re the ebt’s.
He had been telling us that the investigation was moving along smoothly and the result would soon be revealed.
Rfc’s refusal to hand over this imformation should be enough to have them booted out of football.
Nacho Nonuts done the fighting fund walk on Sunday.
lol!
When will Billy Dodds & Neil McCann both admit they lied?
Twitter waking up now…
Tony McKelvie @TonyMcKelvie
D&P are seemingly more conflicted than Campbell Ogilvie. If Lord Hodge removes them, the clock is reset on Admin and RFCplc is toast.
Bye bye hunnies…
so just to recap celtic got their tax advice from an ex governor of the bank of england, rangers got theirs from a part time porn star, they may have got their abbreviations mixed up EBTs and SM simple mistake.