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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I see that a security company is apparently advertising for 300 additional staff for work in the south side of Glasgow next Wednesday evening.
Now where is the BBC located these days? And what do they have on the schedule for next Wednesday evening?
Morning all from a fair to middling North Ayrshire. Listening to Andre Rieu and his orchestra at the minute.Amazing Grace on the bagpipes. Brillliant. We should have him on the tannoy at Celtic Park before the games. He had the whole audience up dancing earlier to the Blue Danube. Did my soul good. (The audience is Mexican, by the bye.) Proper passion for the good things in life.
Here’s hoping the Hibs hammer the mini thems this afternoon.
Brogan Rogan etc
True .
Equally ——
You can’t start a fire sitting round crying over a broken heart.
I must admit I am very much looking forward to this afternoons Scottish Cup Final.
Of course I wish it were Celtic stepping out to collect the trophy but the prospect of a big city derby game in a final – it’s a good thing. And I am actually going to take my Celtic specs off and say – it’s good for Scottish football that we are not in it.
This will be the biggest crowd at an Salt ‘n sauce derby for decades. ‘Family final’ (sic) it is not. I hope it gets the TV audience it deserves too.
So I’m forgetting about them ‘uns and their troubles today , going out with my family at lunch time and back to watch the Scottish Cup final.
And I am supporting the East Coast Irish Diaspora. 100%
The film showing them wrecking the toilets with the 2 policemen looking on….just imagine if an arrest had been made..the 2 cops would never have got out of there alive…..the 1st time i watched the film its shows near the end the exit door opening and about 5 -6 policemen outside,,,,,,mibees they didnt hear the noise within,,,,,,,,
dannysbeard
Can’t come but great idea from your CSC.
Have fun.
HH
Have a good day.
I might spend some time thinking about where Celtic should try and strengthen for the Champions League push.
If I was a gers fan or a member of the main stream media or duff and phelps I might spend some time thinking about the best arrangement for the deck chairs on the titanic.
It’s good to be a Tim.
SunnyBhoy on 19 May, 2012 at 11:03 said:
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.
I remember making my way home from the game after beating the Hun’s at Paradise,was supposed to meet up with mates of mine as usual but the coppers ushered me in the wrong direction,,,straight into the path of the entire Hun support,,i was in trouble couldnt run ,couldnt hide my colours,all i could do was keep my head down and keep walking!!
So i made my way to my usual bus stop,which was hoaching with Huns,,,as seen as they saw my colours that was it ,game on,,,,i was spat on,kicked,punched pushed around,called every name under the sun!!!!
When the bus came i just stood at the front next to the driver in the hope he would help me out,maybe protect me from these animals( mind i was only about 17 at the time),,he done nothing,instead he just laughed and sneered at me as the Hun’s on the bus pelted me with coins and various other thing’s!!!
If it wasn’t for one Decent passenger,who stood up and asked the animals to stop i think i may have ended up in the casualty that night!!!
Its fair to say that i dont particularly like the Huns now,,,i try not to hate,,,but its hard not to!!!!
Let them die!!!
Hail hail
Phil’s take on his Blantyre appearance last night…
http://www.philmacgiollabhain.ie/blant-urr-nights/
Fantastic time last night at the Columba Club, Blantyre, with Paul McConville, Phil Mac Giolla Bhain and a couple of hundred great Celtic fans.
Good times.
I hope Hibs get a result today. I am not overly fond of them but I hate hearts with a passion.
Mon The Hibees!
whitedoghunch on 19 May, 2012 at 09:36 said:
This is why this is the best Blog in the world
I get to work out how much the Huns have robbed over the last few years and I also get to learn how to make Carbonara – the Celtic family – not only decent honest people but educated
I will let you know how i get on – Mrs 67 is getting it tonight (The Carbonara?)
hail Hail
67ECW
ASonOfDan on 19 May, 2012 at 11:38 said:
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I think it’s safe to say I am seriously outnumbered on here in wanting a Hearts win!!
HH
Giggs
Morning all
Drove past Maryhill Orange Hall just before 11. Quite a few Jambos waiting for it to open. Mon The Hi-bees!
H x 2
Amusing event, completely off topic.
My 18 month old just accidentally tasted HP sauce for the first time.
The look on her face was like pastor jack glass meeting the Pope! She wont do that again!
jungle jam67 on 19 May, 2012 at 11:02 said:
Art of War on 19 May, 2012 at 10:22 said:
Hai hail
Art of war(smiddy bar ?)
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Aye Smiddy Bar!
So my memory isn’t off then? Thank god for that.
Don’t know how anyone on here can want Chelsea to win tonight. Hope they don’t score 1st as it would then be everyone behind the ball for the remainder of the game which would make it a bore!
Bayern & Hibs all the way today/tonight.
HH JJ67
Ps. hope this weather improves as am going to a bbq before the game tonight.
German beer of course ;-)
I spent 15 years living and working in Edinburgh. My 2 sons live there and I have lots of contacts there – ex in-laws, ex-colleagues, drinking-buddies etc. I love the ciity. I love going back there.
I hate Hearts.
I hope Hibs wallop them.
This is the most I have ever looked forward to watching a Scottish Cup final . . .
Without cheering on Celtic
Without cheering on a team against Rangers
Without cheering on a team against Motherwell
Without cheering on a team against Hearts . . .
. . . oh wait a minute!
OK. The gauntlet has been thrown down:
IS there a more shameful club in the history of the game than RFCia?
Now there’s a challenge…!
Charlie Mulgrew – Knee Slide Of the Year
picture via @paddimir
Stringer Bell –
Thanks for that.
Just made me fall off the chair.
Absolutely brilliant.
:)
God bless her majesty
s, revenue & customs
Dannysbeard
Is there a Jim Milligan in the Norwich CSC? Went to school with him in Pollok before he moved to Norwich with his Mum Beryll in the late 70’s.
Stringer Bell
at 18 months time to ween on to the real stuff
http://www.heinz.co.uk/sauce-partners/hp-sauce/products/hp-guinness
emusanorphan
Was he once a referee?
HH
Martin, my Man City friend, just told me how he plays 5-a-side football in a league. In his team/squad there are a couple of brothers who are Rangers fans.
Martin just said, “If Rangers go into liquidation, does that mean they will no longer be able to boast about being the world’s most successful club?”
Oh how I laughed.
If the SPL remove the titles the huns won thro cheating and award them to us as the second placed team
where will that leave the title count ?
Cup Finals Treble
Hibs/Hearts draw 2/1
WHU/Blackpool draw 2/1
Bayern win 4/5
Just watched the Celtic v Real Madrid game from 1980 ( was on ESPN during the week).
Funny , as my 15yr old screams “pass-back” as the Real keeper picks one up, had to explain how rules used to be.
Big Del Bosque (the Spain manager) looked a good player in the middle of the park , although his WWE “clothesline” challenge to stop a flying John Doyle late in the game didn’t merit a yellow in those days.
Where was the SKy analysis of George McCluskey’s chopped off goal when we needed it….
Also noticed prominent advertising for one Murray International Metals around the ground, wonder whatever happened to those guys …….
Celtic could very easily stop the huns vandalising the toilets,all they have to do is fit sprinklers that spray slurry, give them a warning if their seen to start wrecking or heard to be making noise above talking level the sprinklers get blasted on whilst all doors are closed.
Over to you Peter.
HP GUINNESS???
Winner!!!!!!!
STLUBO @1148
No challnge at all. The answer is a resounding NO!! That’s NO.
Nobody come near that scum
KINGLuBO
‘mon the Hi-bees
PFAyr
They lose at least 7 titles if it all is traced to the Advocaat time and that gives Celtic 7 more. 50 titles to Celtic.
Rangers will have 47
However if they newco they have won NOTHING.
Imagine the chants already:
F*** ALL you’ve never won F*** all
You’re not Rangers any more
And the we welcome the chase nonsense will be flipped on its head.
Hee hee
BT, by all accounts a wonderful Celtic evening had by all in Blantyre, well done to the original holy goalie, the panel and all in attendance.
HH
Dannysbeard
No idea. He wasn’t a ref when he was in Glasgow. He would only have been 19 or 20 when he left. I think his Mum was from Norwich although he was born and brought up in Glasgow.
Snake
thanks
i`ll make merry with that should it come to pass
PF
I’m sure oor Paul said on shortbread it was 5 titles.