The SPL deadline for clubs to provide information on improper registration of players was six weeks ago today but the league has yet to report findings to clubs, while the chief executive rallies support to allow a Newco access to the league.
Time has expired on this policy of non-disclosure until it’s too late.
If the SPL chief executive ever tells us that Rangers fielded improperly registered players between 2000 and 2012, resulting in years of 3-0 defeats being awarded, there will be an enormous amount of anger, not only among supporters, but in boardrooms across the country, as they ponder money which was rightfully theirs but which went to Rangers – perhaps including Rangers prize money for finishing second this season.
We have made an attempt to quantify this money. Some of the losses were easier to calculate than others. For example, it was easy to calculate that when Rangers won the title in 2009 with improperly registered players, earning automatic qualification to the Champions League group stage, they denied Celtic £15m European earnings, plus £340k SPL prize money. Other losses are less clear, specifically when a club was denied a place in a qualifying round for the Champions League or Uefa Cup, which they may or may not have progressed from.
We have established three figures for each club in the SPL during the season just finished, to cover the period from 2000 to 2012:
Minimum loss:
The absolute minimum each club was denied from European and SPL prize money as a result of Rangers finishing above them with ineligible players.
Weighted loss:
The figure based on Scottish clubs gaining entry to Champions League/Europa League (Uefa Cup) group stages from 20% of their qualifying campaigns (which is slightly less than trend).
Maximum loss:
The maximum a club could have achieved if it qualified for the European group stage it was denied entry to.
Out estimates take no account of the subsequent effect money has on future years. For example, If Celtic earned an additional £15m from entering the Champions League group stage in 2009-10 their league challenge for that season would have been £15m stronger, and Rangers £15m weaker, potentially resulting in consequences in future years.
This multiplier effect would have benefited Celtic but it would be likely to have a greater effect on other clubs, some of whom would be denied the enormous percentage increase in budget automatic qualification to European group stages would have brought.
Hearts finished immediately behind Celtic and Rangers more often than any other club over the period and suffer the greatest potential losses, even more so than Celtic. Hibernian, Aberdeen, Dundee United and Motherwell also suffered significant losses.
Several clubs got nowhere near European football over the period, and some of the 11 spent only a few years in the SPL but each club lost over £1m.
Figures for each club are:
Hearts
Maximum: £72.3m
Weighted: £16.3m
Minimum: £6.2m
Celtic
Maximum: £46.7m
Weighted: £21.9m
Minimum: £17.4m
Hibernian
Maximum: £34.8m
Weighted: £8.4m
Minimum: £3.6m
Aberdeen
Maximum: £21.1m
Weighted: £5.5m
Minimum: £2.7m
Dundee United
Maximum: £20.8m
Weighted: £5.2m
Minimum: £2.4m
Motherwell
Maximum: £16.7m
Weighted: £4.4m
Minimum: £2.1m
Kilmarnock
Maximum: £5.1m
Weighted: £1.9m
Minimum: £1.3m
Dunfermline
Maximum: £3.4m
Weighted: £1.8m
Minimum: £1.5m
Inverness
Maximum: £1.3m
Weighted: £1.3m
Minimum: £1.3m
St Johnstone
Maximum: £1.1m
Weighted: £1.1m
Minimum: £1.1m
St Mirren
Maximum: £1.1m
Weighted: £1.1m
Minimum: £1.1m
In the event Rangers fielded ineligible players during the period under consideration, which everyone apart from Neil Doncaster knows, and even he will be unable to deny next week, we know the following:
Rangers received a minimum of £40.9m which should have gone to the 11 other clubs, assuming each club lost all their European group stage qualifying campaigns. This calculation does not include earnings from clubs now in the Scottish Football League, such as Hamilton Accies or Dundee.
If Scottish clubs progressed to the group stages of European competition on only 20% of their qualifying campaigns the loss would be £69.0m.
The figure for total potential losses if clubs successfully progressed to every European group stage is, as the figure for 100% failure, more illustrative than likely, but the maximum cost to the 11 SPL clubs is £224.6m.
Results will be changed, trophies can and will, be re-awarded, but these are the harsh financial consequences clubs, their lawyers and supporters, will consider when the facts are presented to them next week. The SPL executive has had six weeks to consider if there is sufficient evidence to commence disciplinary proceedings; they have failed to do so. They have failed you and every other football supporter in the land, while shamelessly pursuing an accommodation for the errant club BEFORE REVEALING THE FACTS TO YOU.
Time will be up soon, Mr Doncaster. You’ve had your chance but you have convinced no one. The people who really matter in this entire debacle are those who buy tickets for Celtic Park, Pittodrie, Easter Road, Tynecastle, Tannadice, Fir Park and the rest, they will hear the truth and read these figures. You have failed them.
You can read our calculations here. European income figures were sources from Uefa data.
Celtic’s disadvantage deepened when their winger John Doyle was sent off ten minutes into the second half for kicking the scorer, but there was an equaliser from Aitken, who was especially suited to a night of such fervour and force. Never bashful, Aitken was stimulated by the challenge of being in an outnumbered line-up.
From Celtic: A Biography in Nine Lives, by Kevin McCarra.
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tyrehoops on 18 May, 2012 at 22:28 said:
That Cheaters show on the ‘Really’ channel is brilliant for a laugh. Give it a watch guys…
Best one ive seen is the husband tackling the 16yr old babysitter. Hidden cameras in the house show him kissing her in front of their 2yr old daughter (scumbag). Next the Cheaters presenter ‘Joey Greco’ has the wife in his wagon showing her video footage of her husband tackling the babysitter. She is in a rage. Then Joey Greco (you gotta see this guy LOL) tells her “conveniently, your husband is in a parking lot nearby with the babysitter”. So they all swoop in to the car park, everyone bounces out of the cars, full on camera crew, wife pulls the door of the jeep open and the babysitter is on all fours sorting yer man out. She pulls him out of the car, bags round his ankles, and beats the head off him. Now this is the funniest bit- he actually says to his wife, and i quote, “Its not what it looks like!” hahahahahahahaha we laughed for about an hour!!!
Oh, and then the wife phones the babysitters da on her ‘cell phone’ & says you better get your ass down here and get your trampy daughter away from my husband…
Big black dude swoops in and jumps out of the car with a baseball bat and tries to batter yer man while he’s begging his wife to believe that “its not what it looks like”
Knoxy
TTTT
you in the toon the morra fur ra fitba ?
67Heaven … I am Neil Lennon..!!..Truth and Justice will always prevail on 18 May, 2012 at 22:48 said:
for all the violence, and the ugly sectarian chants, and the shame of misrepresenting scotland abroad,
the youtube clip of them putting the poor unfortunate alcoholic in the fountain , still more than anything makes me sick of them.
for that reason alone,
we dont need them
….PFayr on 18 May, 2012 at 22:52 said:
I am……..
67Heaven
They don’t use their mass hoard numbers to abuse defenceless local individuals when their team plays abroad…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jV3bJb0kc1I …..Oops, no, sorry
PF – still getting over the dreaded lurgy, so taking it easy. Where you headed in town?
T4
tommytwiststommyturns –
I am doing just fine thanks. Back at work and keeping fit. Had my latest 3-monthly blood tests a few days ago and results all good to excellent, so onwards and upwards.
Hail Hail.
TTTT
Tennents for the game …probably Merchant City for the CL final
….PFayr on 18 May, 2012 at 22:56 said:
I am………
Another cracker from hun rumours bhoys, clutch clutch clutch.
18 May 2012 21:03:32
Just a wee bit of clarification over Green’s speech, he said Rangers formed prior to the days of incorporation, correct, he said Rangers re registered, kinda correct but a bit misleading, and that a new Co was no different.
I dont think Rangers history disappears if there is a new Co, because history is etched in minds, hearts successes and failures, families, fans, bereaved, joy, sorrow and every other curse that goes with being a fan of the Old Firm. But……
If there is a new company then there is a new company, a new company number, when you check the history of that company in the registers of this land then it will say “incorporated 2012” company history company events etc will be 2012, there is no getting away from this, in the same way that despite the re-registration alluded to by Green the company registration number of Rangers is SC004276, and the date this came into existence is 27/05/1899.
You cant have the argument both ways, either history is an intangible not linked to corporate structures and so this doesnt matter, or you can say that a new company wipes history. You cant argue this is the same as a flotation or reregistration.
I ramble but i ramble right.
31003 on 18 May, 2012 at 22:53 said:
Will be out to watch the champions league final, but not picked a venue yet
HH
CRC
Fortunes Favour Mibbes on 18 May, 2012 at 22:54 said:
i wish you hadnt posted that.
the irony of one of the gioted muppets having a poppy on his shirt while abusing the poor guy really does make me sick.
in the clip, look hw many others are taking video.
its horrible.
Tom McL
Good morning/good night, have a good weekend pal.
henr1ck
what about when the SPL remove circa 8 of their titles for cheating
they can have their Newco and their sordid history as we forge on without them
cretins
We rest our case…..dirty, horrible cretins
Saint stivs,
cheers pal,will catch you during the week,
early night for me,working tomorrow
St Stivs
Balloons ….. First home game after Administration I got the kids in our group those big heavy duty ones you put rice in and bounce (approx 24 inch across) At kick off my youngest says dad can I launch this … Aye… followed by his mates I watched as the fans passed the parcels all the way from up in the gods onto the pitch..
Worried Arthur here for the next ten minutes thinks a Liverpool beachball debacle or a Celtic player breaking an ankle or worse…
Big FF balloon destroyer eventually got to them and seemed to get extra pleasure from breaking the industrial balloons.
Me……… I worried the rice was going to take his eye out.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Sweating like jc2 watching industrial re-inforced balloons he had bought bobbing around the Celtic area………
celticrollercoaster says In Neil we trust on 18 May, 2012 at 22:57 said:
Meeting up with 5 or 6 others (same as last year)
Meet in town….watch SCF or West Ham rubbidge (depends what’s best)
Sumpin tae eat
Robert n May Millar???????
Then ECLF
Then if same as last year….the good old Iron Horse!!!!!
midfield maestro –
Cheers mate. I read you say you had moved out of Paisley.
Where are you based now?
PFAyr……
Is it cos ah is black???????
31003
Now that was funny!!!
HT……
It was….it was….
Saint Stivs on 18 May, 2012 at 22:58
After posting it, saw your reference to it without the link, so I expected you to say that, and I understand your sentiment. But, I also believe we need to expose these “peepil” for what they are at every opportunity, especially when they still enjoy media protection.
Any other club in Europe would have rounded on the members of its support for that (and the other things I’m sure you’re aware of)….but not this club. We’re fighting a propaganda war against their lies and cover-ups whether we like it or not.)
Will post warnings in future with clips like that though.
HH.
31003
Are you?
balloons stories are good.
now one for the historians and the ozzie night shirt,
hoping for a Hibs, Munich double 1-0 correct scores so.
———————————-
A Celtic Hibbes Bhoys 11, greats only, fill in the blanks please –
1.
2. (no sneddon)
3.
4, Pat Stanton
5. Mike Conroy
6.
7.
8. Scott Broon.
9. Joe McBride.
10.
11, John Collins.
31003 on 18 May, 2012 at 23:03 said:
Robert n May Miller – they still goin?
I remember watching them singing Ebony & Ivory in the 80’s around the Kelvinbridge area. Can’t be the same surely?
31003
naw it`s cause i`m half p&&hed :¬))
Got a mortgage again, moved tae Newton Mearns, awe fir Kaflick schools, fir the wee yon, goes tae the big school (no big hoose) next year.
Josh finished his uni exams today, has a resit in August, then hopes to graduate. At dinner tonight says to Mrs M, i can apply for my visa for Oz in Sept. All well, & you?
3. Laursen
Tom Mcl
Above post was for you, sorry missed your name off header.
St Stivs – Pat McGinlay at 10! Good St Tams pupil!
hamiltontim on 18 May, 2012 at 23:08 said:
31003
Are you?
Only when ahm dancin
We’got Jamesy Connolly – number 10.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfcx5Tdk4rk
Fortunes Favour Mibbes on 18 May, 2012 at 22:54 said:
67Heaven
They don’t use their mass hoard numbers to abuse defenceless local individuals when their team plays abroad…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jV3bJb0kc1I…..Oops, no, sorry
contrast to us in Paris for the PSG game…herded like sheep but still behaved like bhoys………………..I remember a steward at the end of the game…big black guy….sheepishly walking in front of the Celtic end after the game doing his job and for some reason he got noticed and pelted with scarves and cheered …never seen a guy so surprised or so delighted…picked up a couple of scarves and joined in the fun……a guy that probably knew nothing of Celtic… but guaranteed he has never forgot us
Saint Stivs on 18 May, 2012 at 23:08 said:
1. Alan Rough
7. Pat McGinlay
midfield maestro on 18 May, 2012 at 23:09 said:
Got a mortgage again, moved tae Newton Mearns, awe fir Kaflick schools, fir the wee yon, goes tae the big school (no big hoose) next year.
Josh finished his uni exams today, has a resit in August, then hopes to graduate. At dinner tonight says to Mrs M, i can apply for my visa for Oz in Sept. All well, & you?
You need tae join the club!!!!!
I was hoping some of the historians would give us some of the original team.
I cant remembers now, thats me drunk allreadys.
how quicky they go from 4th round quiz leader , to drunken poster.
PFayr on 18 May, 2012 at 23:01 said
Yes i can’t wait untill the titles are stripped matey, scumbags the lot of them.