Contrary to our earlier understanding, Rangers did not win a ruling from the Court of Session on who was to be appointed administrator, HMRC and Rangers came to agreement on the appointment of Duff and Phelps, who acted for Whyte during his takeover of the club.
The admission by Duff and Phelps that today’s court action by HM Revenue and Customs was in connection to circa £9m unpaid tax accrued since the takeover in May last year will come as a surprise no one in the Celtic Quick News community. This is why Rangers are now in administration, it’s nothing to do with the big tax case, or indeed, the wee tax case.
Key question is, what will HMRC do now? They’re not going away/. Rangers continued to sign football players despite being delinquent with taxes, and briefed journalists that they rejected a £9m offer for a player on 31 August 2011.
The fact that the business is in administration due to activity carried out under Craig Whyte’s tenure may also interest the Insolvency Service, who are already investigating Whyte’s takeover of the club following information passed by former chairman, Alastair Johnston.
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Paul67 – good work on 5Live last night despite the insistence of Mr Livesey talking over the top of you. Rude and frustrating but I guess that’s what happens when you give informed and educated responses instead of the usual claptrap that interviewees are coming out with regarding this matter. Keep fighting the good fight! All I ask is that fairness is applied. Nothing more, nothing less.
These are amazing times. Scottish football will never have a better opportunity to sort itself out. To do this would mean a degree of pain for all in the short term but in years to come, if done properly, it could be a great thing for Scottish Football. There have been improvements in the way the game is run over the past 12-18 months, very minor but improvements nonetheless. This is a chance for those in charge to make a real and lasting difference.
My worry is that they have neither the stomach nor the vision required to sort this mess out, especially as the first step would be acknowledging a degree of culpability.
Thanks for all you’ve done and continue to do for all of us.
Hail! Hail!
Remember the feeling you get when you first wake up in the morning and remember a painful Celtic defeat or title loss the day before ?
Now multiply that by 100 million and imagine what all the poor huns felt like this morning.
Brought a smile to my face when it slowly crept back into my consciousness that they were in administration :-)
It’s on days like this I wish I didn’t work from home so much and had to go into the office. Might just pay it a visit tomorrow :-)
Saint Stivs says:
15 February, 2012 at 09:56
its a big giant world , with the Celtic family everywhere , but isnt it amazing how many connections there are.
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Funny you should say that, postie comes in the work this morning,sees I
am on celtic site as usual (CQN) ” I’ll tell you a Cellic site to go on ” says he.
“CQN” ,looked at him and replied”never off it mate” .
He then proceeds to tell me ,there is a guy round the corner who has
written for the magazine etc,who? JF ,good job I like you mate.
The SNP need to be very careful here. Sympathetic treatment to the H*ns could see them having a shedload of votes disappear like snow off a dyke. They may gain from them but I think overall will be a net loss.
The 5 members of my immediate family would never consider them – this also means three will reverse their previous voting patterns. My own vote will not change.
I always remember my sage late dad’s advice. The P in SNP is not for Party. ( Well that was his conviction.)
Duffields interveiw the other night as he walked out iPox is an indicator to what will unfold IMO
He was adamant that the immediate financial problem would be sorted and that thems will come out stronger!
What are the possibilities of
He has the script…
As does probably many of the directors old and new!
Months to learn their lines…
They are saying the same things….
The prize is within touching distance !
Kittoch says:
15 February, 2012 at 09:50
I am sure a polite
“And who will you be supporting now for the rest of your life?”
Will suffice … that´s what I recommend
HAil HAil
Dontbrattbakkinanger says:
15 February, 2012 at 09:55
‘SFTB- Kirsty is Ayrshire through and through.
No way was she ever goin’ to appear on BorderTV.’
Is her hubby not from Stranraer?
And is he not a Tim?
She’s from Ayr, ex Wellie. I wonder if her family knew Minty’s family?
Just remember this … “Whyte is a poker player from the top drawer.” (November 2)
jimmci says:
15 February, 2012 at 10:04
Labour and the SNP politicians are making noises. That’s all it is, noise. They both need hun votes so they have to be seen to be trying to do something.
The only ex-huns who I haven’t yet seen or heard paraded on the ole MSM are Cammy Fraser, Gordon Ramsay and Moses McNeil. Why are they being excluded from this tearfest? I want to hear their views about the huns being a national institution who will survive and come out of this whole process stronger than ever.
Blantyre Kev- I heard a similar story about when LUFC signed Seth Johnson from Derby? [Crewe?]
For those who dont have time to scroll back, some of yesterday’s best posts on here.
pedrocaravanachio67 says:
14 February, 2012 at 22:31
Heard it all now, old guy in the pub just said “david murray done a runner”
3mick3 says:
14 February, 2012 at 22:44
That hun on stv (A. Dick) you could see both his eyes through a keyhole.
Magnificentseven says:
14 February, 2012 at 22:56
Do you think Paddy Power will announce they are paying out on the SPL title?
huns fc- love the queen but wont pay her says:
14 February, 2012 at 19:53
Caller on snydes good just now, wanting scum supporters around the world to chip in, will HMRC accept ginger bottles?
prestonpans bhoys says:
14 February, 2012 at 19:57
Just opened a bottle of Champs and Mrs Prestonpans thinks its due to St Valentine’s day.
God bless her :)
bournesouprecipe says:
14 February, 2012 at 20:10
SAN………….RFC boss Ally McCoist has just issued a statement saying ”for every 5 bowls of jelly and ice cream Celtic eat, I’ll eat 10″
fergus slayed the blues says:
14 February, 2012 at 20:23
The Scottish Sun has hacked CWs phone and put £10 credit on it
hail hail
Remember what the Motherwell administrator did on day 1.
19 players contracts ripped up.
Season tickets cancelled.
Stranraer is Ayrshire with bigger boats.
So Spiers says ‘ I can’t believe i’m saying this, but I honestly feel Rangers are going to go into liquidation’.
Nevin says ‘I feel any club that goes into administration should automatically be relegated’.
I need to lie down. Think i’ve been slipped an acid.
brimmer
As this all moves along and the papers blithely tell us all will be well……
I for one am fair looking forward to finding out what Ticketus’s secutity over their M£24.4 loan was.
I can’t believe for a moment they don’t have some.
It’s extemely moving to find Mad Mags and other worthies so worried about the people who make the tea at Shutter Island! Can’t find a single comment from Mags re: GCC’s savage budget cuts/wage freeze/wage cuts. Still….Trevor Steven on SSN,
SSN ‘who’s to blame?’
Trev: ‘Dick Advocaat, a lot of the big expenditure came after I was here…’
SSN ‘Have Ranjurz been paying wages they couldn’t afford?’
‘Trev: It’s a gamble, there have been time when players have been overpaid’
SSN: ‘What’s the feeling in Glasgow re CW going to Monaco?’
Trev: ‘I don’t think there’s ever been a good relationship between the fans and CW, a lack of trust’
SSN: ‘What does the future hold?’
Trev: ‘Nobody knows, I’m personally worried for Celtic, the commercial streams won’t be there for Celtic, Celtic will be looking for a quick resolution’
Patrick Barclay on now, pointing out that many English clubs have used EBTs and they could face same/similar
Five live finding a very unsympathetic response to the ‘football needs ranjurz’ line
Ciao ——
Minty killed the Hun . Aided and abetted by the members of The Confederacy of Dunces .
The Thousandaire is the vulture who got to the carcass first. He hopes to strip and eat the carcass before various packs of hyenas turn up . I think he will succeed. .
Say no to Newco and Scottish fitba has the chance to rid itself of numb nut sectarianism. Death to The Old Firm. No need to pay it any further attention.
Happy Days !
Top of the morning to you all from a bright and breezy Fife.
The sun is shining, God’s in his heaven and thank God that Craig Whyte is in charge of Rangers.
Where would we be without the Motherwell-born-billionaire?
Just can’t get enough would seem to be an appropriate tune at the moment.
I have a notion—to paraphrase the late Jimmy Durante—we ain’t seen nothin yet.
H. H.
Any new revelations this morning bhoys?
Administration is now accepted in the media and one or two are even trying to paint it as a good thing! But what is really interesting is that the talk of liquidation has started. The nuclear option is on the table.
Newco as a terms will enter the public lexicon very soon. And that’s when the debate about the future will take place. We need to be ready with the arguments for the rules to be applied justly and fairly and no favours offered to the son of the cheats.
Ayrshire is responsible for many unfortunate things. Stranraer is not one of them.
100% D&G, complete with the funny accents.
Now that the game is up, the points have been docked, the brown brogues are scuffed and the jelly and ice cream has been scoffed, let’s think about the rest of the season.
There is no doubt Celtic will be league champions. There is also no doubt we are favourites to win the league cup. The Scottish cup should also be within our grasp but there are still a few decent sides in there.
Where does it leave our hurting Glasgow neighbours? They have nothing to play for. very soon they will have few players, they have no money and no future.
What do they have left? Their hatred for Celtic.
I watched the Pars match at the weekend and the BJK brigade were out in force. They will sing every song in their songbook from here on in. They have no need to worry about bans or point deductions. It’s unlikely they will be in Europe next season anyway so they don’t have to even worry about finishing 2nd.
Things will get ugly (if that is possible) at Ibrokes and every stadium unfortunate enough to host them. Ironically the Rangers supporters I have spoken to are talking about a boycott of away grounds to let clubs know how much the SPL needs Rangers! I nearly choked on my Champagne flavoured jelly!
LB
new article posted.
ernie
I actually don’t know the football allegiance of either Wark or Clements. I see that he was educated at Stranraer Academy so, at least, DBBIA cannot disown him.
Kirsty was very defensive of Rangers on the RS phone in this morning, though. She even pulled up Graham Spiers at one point.
This exit strategy from Murray has been planned and perfected since the huns contributed 300k into his share issue. That was the biggest FU that Murray had ever experienced in his business life. Manchester riots sealed his commitment to it.
b>HAil HAil
As I understand it the Administrator has to run the huns at a profit and can’t use any funds lying about (no sniggering) to pay future bills.
We know what expenditure he’ll have just to keep going. Player and staff wages, police costs, utility bills etc, auditors bills, lawyers bills (I noticed the huns agreed to pay HMRC’s legal costs on Tuesday).
But what income is there? How many pay at the gate tickets are there likely to be? It’s only that and TV income ( no idea how and when that’s paid).
I can’t see this going on for long unless the season books are cancelled.
Interesting listening to a really poor phone in on Radio Five Live this morning with Nicky Campbell. Pretty dire stuff with Robert Fleck and a few others, but they brought in Peter Ridsdale. He said he found Rangers mismanagement staggering, in part due to the fact they were able to sign Cousin last week while in serious financial difficulties.
Yes. That Peter Ridsdale. The man who took Leeds to the brink of extinction and was an advisor at Plymouth. He thought Rangers mismanagement was staggering.
Aw Naw
Lawell is going to condemn media for misquoting him ….. he did not say ” We do not need Rangers.”
He said, ” We don’t need no stink in’ Rangers!”
Steinreignedsupreme
Regards Kirsty Wark
‘She is the worst-dressed woman on television – is that where she was this morning?’
You have witnessed Gaby Logan’s dress sense haven’t you? She is like an extra from the Rocky Horror picture show
Chanelcsc
Gordon Ramsay has been invited back, to cook the books.
Literally.
Already Kirk Numbnuts is defrosting the microwave.
new article
Vagelis Georgariou @vagelisgeo
Healy, Lafferty, Papac, Aluko, Little and Kerkar contracts to be terminated – source inside Murray Park. If he’s wrong I’ll be surprised
I tell you one thing…
Romanov!
Has settled his tax bill yesterday!
Why?
He forsees hearts being the 2nd major force in Scottish football..
More income…
Champions league football….
Just wait till this pantomime unfolds…
Like the old party game musical chairs he will prance around, confident knowing the he will Hecuba one sitting on the champions league chair!
As the music stops he throws himself down on that chair! Chest puffed out with pride and a smile on his face as he gazes around the room …
Then that face of pride changes to fear as he notices a group huddled around a corner in the room…
He gets up and slowly walks across..
Hearing the laughter and back slapping the crowd begin to disperse…
The leading bodies..mps…media… All move aside holding their breath as there sitting before him is White…
Sitting on a chair… The champions league/SPL/ debt free chair!
Romanov will say exactly what it is…
But nobody will hear!
As he will never be part of the establishment!
HH..
Indeed hardly coincidence Ms Wark s man Alan Clements / STV/ Rangers..
Massive pr spin.. Pity I’m at work as I d love to hear the show..
As SFTB says 09.44 the masks all slip..
WE shall not be moved…
Watching this sorry scenario unfold, I was thinking , what a compete and absolute mess they have got themselves in
David Murray, top scottish businessman, dont think so
I only hope that the long arm of the tax man shows him for what he is
he would have offloaded rangers to ronnie biggs given the chance
CW comes in with his sidekick Andrew Ellis, probably best described as a couple of hyenas
In Rangers they saw a half eaten carcass and decided that they would step in and pick the bones
make no mistake these people are criminals and should be treated as such
I’ve just written to Margaret Curran along the following lines:
Dear Margaret,
I am writing to you having listened to you on Good Morning Scotland today (15th Feb 2012) in regard to the current insolvency event at Rangers FC.
While I agree with you that it is important to protect jobs, it is more important that individuals and corporations pay their taxes. After all, jobs and services (e.g. Disability Services) are put at risk every time an individual or corporation evades paying their taxes. Do you agree with this?
Equally jobs have been put at risk at other companies by the mismanagement at Rangers. These companies need your sympathy more than the instigators of these problems.
I’m not at all convinced that you have indicated that Rangers should pay all that they are due. You gave the impression that the most important thing for Scottish Football and the 200 people who work for Rangers is that they survive.
Can you re-assure me that you are of the opinion that:
– Individuals and corporations must pay all the taxes due
– Those who fail to do so should be dealt with in the strictest possible manner
– You will fight any attempt by a New Rangers to emerge from the ashes of the current mess debt free and with us as taxpayers picking up the unpaid bill by the current Rangers FC
Companies who fail to pay their debts to their suppliers put at risk the jobs of people working for these suppliers
I look forward to your reply.
I think it is important that we lobby MPs and MSPs. Margaret Curran’s email address is margaret.curran.mp@parliament.uk
Your MPs contact details can be found here: http://www.parliament.uk/mps-lords-and-offices/mps/
Your MSPs contact details can be found here: http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/msps/177.aspx
It only takes a minute to get in touch with them. So give up CQN and RTC for a minute and get writing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3rJX3U9yM8
Is all…!
Wark and Clements are anti-Catholic and anti-Celtic. Kirsty used a ceremony in which she was guest of honour with the task of presenting awards to Head Teachers, to attack Catholic schools. She was apparently devastated at 5 years old to be separated from her friend who went to a Catholic Primary. She didn’t mention if she or any of her friends were devastated at age 12 when she went on to Wellington School – a private school.
Wark and Clements made a documentary a few years ago on sectarianism. Many of you will remember a young teenage Celtic fan with a Tricolour singing “We love the IRA”. The shot was often used by BBC whenever sectarianism was topical. During the programme, they showed groups of young Celtic supporters acting daft and singing stupid songs which were offensive. On the other side, however, it was groups of mature men in their 30s and 40s who were singing very sectarian songs. However, it was passed off as one side is as bad as the other – but the shot of the young Celtic supporter is the only thing you still see from the programme.