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The tens of millions Rangers denied SPL clubs

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Last year we attempted to quantify the money other SPL clubs were denied by Rangers improperly registering football players – on the assumption that being found guilty of improperly registering football players was actually worthy of punishment.

Below is an excerpt of the article and figures:

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 [then]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.

You can read our calculations here. European income figures were sources from Uefa data.

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 elsewhere. It is patently clear that the game in Scotland is failing fans and clubs alike. It is time for fans of SPL clubs to unite and move beyond the busted grip of the SFA.

Only SPL fans, working together, can ensure each of clubs has a viable future.

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  1. bankiebhoy1 on

    I’d agree with him –

     

     

    …..first in the dock Busted Flush followed by Grimmond McCrummoch……….

  4. tooheys new on

    Still in a spin from yesterdays decision and how little things have progressed in this country. However, from what I have read LNS and the committee (like the FTT before them) made the only decision that they could.

     

     

    The review itself was the stitch up not the decision. LNS was asked to review whether TFOD had broken the rules and whether the players are properly registered. Breaking the rules was easy and duly identified (can’t explain the fine).

     

     

    But the registration was solely down to the statement by Mr Bryson. There appears to be no cross examination and no other evidence led (Spartans etc). Consequently, case closed. There must be a dispute as to whether LNS should have accepted such a narrow commission but that had now gone.

     

     

    The FTT case runs along similar themes HMRC were so confident of the background story re the side letters they pursued a catch all case against EBTs despite losing similar on 3 earlier cases (see Dextra, the phones4u guy). This was so that they did not give any ground away in their overall EBT battle. But it simply allowed the judges to state the already agreed common law of Trust. Thankfully, there was a dissenting voice and HMRC can appeal the case (slightly) differently. But we will be waiting a while before any decision is made.

     

     

    Paul’s suggestion is therefore excellent. I grew up with the belief that all other fans 2nd team was the Huns. they certainly seem to want them to win 4 times a year. Even Hibs fans were never the most friendly. That has changed dramatically. And while they are not best disposed to Celtic they hate the Huns for their bile, arrogance, cheating, refusing to apologise and so much more, There must be a chance as we all did last year to ensure that they were not parachuted into SPL or Div1.

     

     

    Mr Bryson’s statements were not consistent with SFA judgments and contrary to UEFA rulings. There must be a case that we can pursue as Paul suggests

  5. ASonOfDan on

    “We are playing Juventus in the last 16 of the Champions League. We’re not renting out a training ground to them.”

     

     

    If Neil Lennon actually said that, it must go down as the best put down in the history of sport.

  9. A Ceiler Gonof Rust on

    ….PFayr 16:52 on 1 March, 2013

     

     

    Dontpatmadug

     

     

    An apology for what ?

     

    …………………………………………..

     

     

     

    Exactly, they should be apologising to us for 140 years of bile and hatred not to mention their massive fraud of recent years.

     

     

    Cheeky bassa

  11. Jonny the Tim on

    Imagine having £47,000,000 in “brown envelopes”, and still you cant have an “unfair sporting advantage”? Says a lot about the quality of Watty et al’s signings!

     

     

    HH

  16. A Ceiler Gonof Rust on

    NFL is clearly annoyed at being asked about the dead club’s shenanigans. He should have nipped that in the bud and moved on instead of entertaining them. They clearly were seeking a reaction.

     

     

    Well done just the same NFL.

  18. !!Bada Bing!! on

    Embdae know who the lapdog with the English accent was at the press conference?

  19. Tallybhoy on

    …Pfayr

     

     

    Got a couple of handy-looking pitchforks over here – would never get them through customs ‘tho. Yer right – I wont come over. Would be disappointed.

     

     

    thetimrieper

     

     

    How could I forget the burning torches!

     

     

    HH!!

  23. iki on

    Having heard all the evidence Lord Nimmo Smith declared that there should be no punishment of Harold Shipman.

  24. !!Bada Bing!! on

    bankiebhoy1-VG

     

    3mick3-It could be him mate,you can see how tedious it can get.The loaded questions ad naseum.

  25. !!Bada Bing!! on

    Can I Have Raspberry On That Champions League Ice Cream

     

    17:24 on

     

    1 March, 2013

     

    Any idea what time doors open tonight?

     

    Whenever you push it mate :} Have a good night.

  26. hen1rik on

    leftclicktic

     

     

    17:12 on

     

    1 March, 2013

     

     

    I forgot about him and @raymondcarlin

  27. oglach on

    Classic Ice and Jelly moment from NFL

     

     

    ” We are playing Juventus in the champions league NOT RENTING THEM A TRAINING GROUND”

  31. !!Bada Bing!! on

    Delahunt “join us at 5 to 12 tomorrow for SSB just before the big one at Ipox….” Have i missed something here…….?

  32. A Ceiler Gonof Rust on

    hen1rik, are you in touch with TBK? Could you ask him if he used to post on the DR under the moniker “The Jungle Floodlight” and latterly TBK. If so, I’d like to get in touch with him, but I don’t do the twitter thingee.

     

     

     

    Cheers

     

     

    P.S. I’m still waiting on a response from Mike Weir to my email asking if he’s be supporting George Galloway’s early day motion. I guess he either doesn’t or couldn’t give a hoot about his constituents concerns. I think I’ll write to him again.

  34. hen1rik on

    a ceiler gonof rust

     

     

    17:37 on

     

    1 March, 2013

     

     

    I’m out just now mate, I deleted my twitter account because of yesterday but after Paul’s article regarding fans group I might activate when I go in.

  35. 3mick3 on

    !!bada bing!!

     

    They can’t help themselves just love trying to stir things up and get Neil to say something to suit their agenda. Don’t know how long he has been a journo up here but he has got into the hacks anti Neil gang.

     

     

    Mick

  37. ItaliaBhoy on

    Neil Lennon is brilliant. Superb handling of leading and inane questions.

     

     

    But you can see the anger there. It’s the anger we all feel and I hope is reflected in the club’s reaction to this travesty.

  38. francisgeraldallen on

    I must admit that I thought, along with many other Celtic fans I thought that they would lose the Big Tax Case(although to be fair to Rangers Tax Case he /she never forecast success, though possibly believed as the case developed that they would loose)and was shocked at how they seemed to had got away with it(although Ms Poon and Hector may have some effect on that eventually)with hindsight, that most exact of sciences, I and many others should have taken note of the wise old heads, many of them Celtic old hands whom have seen at first hand how the setup works in Scotland, as opposed to those of us who view it from afar in Yorkshire and all points N. S. E and West; who said that the bears would get away with the B.T.C.

     

    Looking at the information that was coming out about the hidden payments I was absolutely certain that they were bang to rights on the undeclared payments. This certainty stuck with me right up to the last couple of days, and then I

     

    began to start thinking that maybe some of the commentators on C.Q.N. and other blogs are right , they are going to get away with a slap on the wrist. So in conclusion I think that all we can do is carry on and win the league, and hopefully beat St. Mirren tomorrow and then ,hopefully carry on and win the Scottish Cup, and leave them to stew in the bottom tier of Scottish football for the next couple of seasons. Then carry on winning the league for the next few seasons till they re-enter the S.P.L. or whatever it may be then, and again, hopefully keep making progress in the Champions League, gaining many more £m’s in the process, while they are losing money in the lower leagues of Scottish football; that would be the best answer to them and their corrupt establishment. Hail. Hail. G.B.N.L.

  40. hen1rik on

    Still sick after yesterday and I only hope something happens here, rules should be applied to everyone and if it doesn’t apply to them then what is the point.

  41. timbhoy2 on

    Bhoys we all know Sevco cheated for years.we all know how it works in scotland,myself and 3 others were caught playing cards when i was about 16 working in hollins mills in Boden Street Glasgow ,out of the 4 of us i was the only tim.guess who got sacked,anyway any updates on the Triangle thats to be put in place in and around Celtic Park and the Londod rd school.

  42. gedhed7 on

    Miki 67

     

    Can only be inspired by your resolve mate a credit to you and your family hopefully this fantastic club of ours can lift your spirits God bless and HH

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