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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Lennybhoy…Supporting Neil Lennon and CFC until I die on 19 May, 2012 at 09:46 said:
Were any of the Blue Knights asked along?
@SkyScot: S’clyde Police officer charged with sectarian breach peace & vandalism at Celtic Park, 29 April. Follows study YouTube footage @SkyNews
whitedoghunch @ 9 36
Carbonara ?
I have been living in Italy / Sicily for the best part of 13 years . I have never seen Carbonara made with cream .
I have also never seen that vile ersatz slop called spaghetti bolognese…
Warm and sunny -way down south. The good lady from Padova is making fazzoletti di seta al pesto for lunch . That and a cheeky wee semifreddo con cioccolato e riso.
No to Newclub / Newco . No to a Spl parachute.
Why is green saying “US” ……. He hasn’t bought them yet, and he won’t, unless his intention is to sell ALL assets, and walk away with a wee profit ….silly bares ….. Ah, businessmen, bankers, and politicians…….!!!!!!!
Whit are they like, eh … Thank God for our board, and those of another few clubs in Scotland, like Hamilton….
For what reason would you be uninterested in signing Craig Gordon?
a) He tried to help Ragers win the league by leaving his box at a corner against Celtic?
b) He’s always injured and is quite s̶h̶o̶i̶t̶e̶ poor
c) We want Big Fraser
Hoopy the hound enjoying the party last Sunday
Well, it’s cup final day and we’re not involved. Just need to hope for a thrilling 5-4 victory for Hibs then
quonno on 19 May, 2012 at 09:52:
lol…not surprise you but no, only Green Knights invited to a fantastic night in the Blantyre Knights…:)
Right until later Bhoys, no First Communion for me today but I wish Simone, The Token Tim and Jobo, who both have kids making their First Communion today a holy one. And too to those boys and girls everywhere that are making theirs today.
I am now being dragged shopping…:(
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
Big Q from last which should be answered…
Is tax evasion a hereditary condition?
hh
Bjmac
Big Q from last which should be answered…
Is tax evasion a hereditary condition?
hh
Bjmac
:0)
I think the board are doing a great job keeping their own counsel at this time.I wish I could say the same about our esteemed manager.
Neil Lennon should get on with the job he is very well paid to do – managing Celtic and getting organised for the new season, which starts with CL qualifiers very soon, instead of contstantly voicing his opinion about what is happening at Rangers, including the latest “I hope they have a resolution soon.”
Get a grip Lenny and do your job.
Somebody posted a link last night indicating that NL was looking to tie up Hoops on a two year extension and Big Fraser on a full time contract. Dunno how up to date it was or if it was shoite but seemed to have quotes from NL. Anyone got anything else on this.
BTW that Carbonarra you tube recipie was fine but are you just supposed to guess the ingredients. Music nce but I’d rather hear a commentary of ‘ye pit in the eggs efter the cheese’ kinda thing.
Maybe it’s just me tho!
HH
No to Zombie ragers/Newco/New club/CVA’d huns etc.
Pay your debts
HH
SIALF
South Of Tunis on 19 May, 2012 at 09:56
it is always made with cream here- stinkin- they think I am mad when I say just throw in two yolks at the end.
For all my food guff my fried egg just stuck to the pan !
The GB before the last ever Glasgow Derby.
Lisb\o/nbhoy who thinks Neil Lenn(‘0’)n is a legend on 19 May, 2012 at 09:14 said:
My wife at both, just hoping for good day for all involved.
The fan charged by police after you tube video and police stood by watching him do the damage.
The other incident reported to police of a Celtic fan with a gun in the stadium,
Turns out to be a Celtic fan with a flag
Same kind of effect if your an Orc getting pumped 3 nil
Havingapartywhenthehunsdiex csc
Was it a fully automatic flag though?
Cop done for being a typical Hun at Paradise shockarooni
Hope there is a review of cases he was involved in where there were convictions of Hoops fans
It’s al coming out the woodwork now….
Jail Jail
M
So not only did they stand by and watch the vandalism- they actually helped oot with it- you couldnt make it up!
On another note I was sorting Juniors papers out for his round and saw a page in the DR showing the “350 Million pound Ibrok casino”- they did head the page “The Green Knight” though
KTF
jungle jam67 on 19 May, 2012 at 09:04 said:
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If memory serves, didn’t Peter Pointer come on for Danny McGrain in the 5-0 humping of St Mirren on that magical day when we won the league?
Good Morning from a damp North Staffordshire – best wishes to all First Communicants today.
I’ll be umpiring local cricket league match this afternoon – weather permitting
Good luck to the Hibees
I posed the question a few weeks ago; I know its hard to be objective when discussing the Huns but is there a football club out there with a more shameful and sordid history. It was always bad enough with the likes of Newcastle 69, Barcelona 72 and Manchester 08 pushing them to the forefront of notoriety, but their latest scandal is surely the daddy of them all. They are well and truly in the international spotlight with this one, and the worst has yet to come.
Many clubs have a stigma attatched, mainly due to fan behaviour, and they have served European bans. Man Utd were notorious throughtout the seventies but they managed to clean up their image. Their bovver boy support ran amok through two divisions in England. From Carlisle to Plymouth, Cardiff to Sunderland, the Man U hooligans led the way in what was a major government concern of the time. Clubs such as Lazio and Feyenoord have been hammered for crowd behaviour, mostly racist chants, as have Galatasaray and Red Star.
However as they like to tell us….’there’s not a team like the Glasgow Rangers’.
Damn right the isn’t.
They never learn, never a serious attempt to clean up their image no matter what the LL tell us. They only signed an RC because UEFA were coming after them. They’ve had carte blanche to get away with murder in ‘their’ country for generations, and how it shows now. They are dying of arrogance, hedonism and greed. No attempt was ever made by the powers that be to check the rise and rise of the hatred and poison growing within this club. The poison was allowed to spread and now its too late. Hell mend them.
Can there be a club out there with a worse history than RFCia?
hh
Would it be worth sending in a freedom of information request asking if the policy of standing by and doing nothing was operational policy for the polis at CP- or wether those in the film clip were just not doing their duty
What is this film clip of the cops at Celtic Park standing by? Anyone got a link?
Will the 2 police officers who stood and watched thems wreck the toilets at CP now be charged with dereliction of duty?
Tom,
10 minutes of sheer hatred …
http://t.co/vPpGttxv
Wonder who filmed it and put it on youtube!
stupid hurtin’ huns
HH
Blackpool or West Ham?
West Ham are probably the strongest side but Blackpool would add a lot more to the EPL.
SunnyBhoy –
I have just shown that video to a Man City fan and an Aussie and they are stunned. The Aussie has been saying for weeks that the SPL will be a shambles without the Huns. Now he is just saying they deserve all they get. Martin, the City fan is now telling the Aussie about Manchester 2008 as I type this.
Yes, we really need that shower of reprobates.
Thanks for posting mate.
HH ..
Call me a grumpy old man but I’m still angry at Clydes SSB homage to the tax dodgers last night. With carefully edited goals AGAINST us.. It was shocking and the resilient and brilliant line about the tax dodgers season will live long…
A disgrace from Clyde .. I ve e mailed a complaint..
I know I sound grumpy.. But it shocked even die hard hoops fan like myself..
HH
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Are any of you fine CQNer’s coming to Norwich on tuesday, if so the Norwich CSC will be having a wee daytime party in the Temple Bar (opposite Norwich Catholic Catholic Cathedral) .It would be great to say hello to any of you.
HH
Help yourself
Cheerios
Art of War on 19 May, 2012 at 10:22 said:
Hai hail
Art of war(smiddy bar ?)
Yes
Some great games in the 80s that did not involve the FOD
Peter did come on as a sub that day to replace Danny
PG testimonial match was also against bayern Munich
Maybe a wee omen for the final tonight
Bayern beat us 2-1
Jam67
Tom,
Over the years I’ve been punched and kicked (and scarred) by Rangers fans, and that was in the days when they were in a good mood! Dangerous times for our fellow Tims in Scotland.
Lorbobo
Mebbes they considered that they were doing their duty…
HH
M
Good Morning,
I just want to point out that you can’t start a fire without a spark…………
What a great day for wee Pat Nevin.
His two teams in cup finals.
How many jobs has he got today I wonder ?