I am genuinely surprised at the furore that my call into Clyde 1 Super Scoreboard about the Rangers tax case has caused in certain circles. I am a bit surprised at this because I said very little on air that was new.
Month: January 2011
Rangers board desperate to settle tax case!
EXCLUSIVE
Rangers’ legal battle with HMRC took a serious turn for the worse in recent weeks. The case, which concerns the club’s use of an Employee Benefits Trust (EBT) to pay players without paying PAYE or National Insurance contributions, puts Rangers FC’s future on the line. In a startling gambit, Rangers’ lawyer, Andrew Thornhill QC, has had his second approach to settle the case out of court rebuffed. In this most recent offer, it is understood that the Ibrox club offered an amount just under £10m.
Rangers offer to settle with HMRC.
My sources have informed me that Andrew Thornhill QC who is representing Rangers in the current tax case with HMRC recently approached the lawyers of the other side and offered to settle the case.
A Rebel Journalist
This book is a collection of Phil’s newspapers articles and blogs over the past two years dealing with the stories that have been central to the Celtic family.
Club privately supports Bhoycott
Joe O’Rourke of the Celtic Supporters Association is confident that his organisation has the full backing of the club in their plan to boycott the match at Rugby Park against Kilmarnock on Wednesday March 2nd.
Sacked SFA workers successful in their appeal!
The three SFA workers caught up in the Dallas email affair who were appealing their dismissal learned today that they had been successful. They were informed in writing today. The same process that Hugh Dallas had went through a week earlier. Mr.Dallas, as readers of this site will know, was unsuccessful in his appeal. This revelation does, of course, pave the way for Mr.Dallas to take his sacking to an employment appeal tribunal. This is a course of action, which my sources inform me, that he is actively considering. A successful appeal for Mr.Dallas would,almost certainly make SFA Chief Executive …
Anti-Catholic and anti-Irish “banter” normal inside SFA say sacked three.
A worrying picture of a “canteen culture” of everyday anti-Catholic anti-Irish “banter” in the Scottish Football Association offices has emerged during the appeals into the sackings of the SFA workers caught up in the Dallas Email affair.
The power of myth.
As I travel through life I am increasingly dismayed at the power of myth in human communities and their need to create legends from virtually zero evidence.
People seem to need myth.
Especially groups of people.
An expert analysis.
I settled into a comfy seat in the backroom of a pub under the misty slopes of Croagh Phadraig.
The men folk on my father’s side, including my father himself, have congregated in this back room for over 125 years, as far I can guess, to discus politics, the GAA and life in general.
