I recently interviewed Danny Boyle of the Harps Community Project.
Month: February 2011
UEFA match delegates.
The Uefa delegate for tonight’s Europa league tie between sporting Lisbon and Rangers is Jean-Louis Piette from France.
Top referees want Hugh Dallas back!
Exclusive.
The week end of the Old Firm cup tie earlier this month was meant to see all the SFA top referees out in Spain for their bonding get together thingy.
Last year it was a happy gathering near Marbella with Hugh Dallas in charge of his officials.
Let chaos reign!
With the law of unintended consequences always in play in human affairs one must be careful for what one wishes for.
The people who fashioned the trajectory of US statecraft, with a key objective of enhancing the security of the state of Israel, if they have any capacity for self-reflection, must now be in despair…
The Away End podcast
The Away End was the brainchild of a group of journalism students two years ago. Initially planned as a print magazine, it has developed more as an online production, looking to evolve with the changing world of new media; producing online magazines and supplements, podcasts, videos, and soon to be exclusive documentaries.
Another tax case.
Dave King, the man who wants to own Rangers FC, hasn’t been having it all his own way recently.
In October last year the judgement of North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria stated that King was a “glib and shameless liar.”
Last week the company “Ben Nevis” dropped their appeal against the contention by the South African Revenue Service (SARS) that the company and Dave King were, effectively, one and the same.
Will Sir David Murray pay the tax bill for Rangers?
I recently had a useful chat with a senior Scottish sports journalist in the media centre at the AVIVA stadium. We were both there for the Carling Cup.
We were discussing the Rangers tax case when he told me of the dominant view of this problem within the upper echelons of the Ibrox club.
The real value of Rangers fixed assets may soon be known.
Something to keep an eye out for is the possibility of a “write down” of the book value of Rangers’ fixed assets in the coming months. These are made up almost exclusively of Ibrox Stadium and Murray Park, and were listed as having a value of £121 million in Rangers’ last annual report.
Expert tax advice from a man in the know…
My sources tell me that Andrew Thornhill QC will be speaking to a distinguished gathering of Chartered Accountants and allied trades in the tax efficency business tomorrow in the Sheraton Skyline Hotel at Heathrow airport.
No apology to the Catholic Church from SFA after Dallas.
EXCLUSIVE
The Catholic Church in Scotland has revealed to this journalist that the Scottish Football Association has failed to contact them with an apology following on from the Dallas Email incident late last year.
