Job done.

As the BBC documentary on Rangers is about to be broadcast this week  I feel  that my work on these matters is largely over.

When I started on this my objective was to put the story of Rangers and the  likelihood of the club going into Administration out there in the mainstream Scottish media.

I realised that this would not happen overnight because of the craven venal nature of the average Scottish sports hack when faced with the cultural power of Rangers.

Succulent lamb is a hard habit to kick.

This would be a story, like the campaign against the “Famine Song” , that would have to happen in the news pages before the sports desks would get involved.

Going back to early last year the main response from Rangers supporters was that this tax case thingy was all a terrible lie about “the Rangers” and that I would soon be found out as a  fenian fantasist.

Ah well…

It was also alleged that I had an agenda.

This was true.

I had a clearly stated aim of getting this story out there into the mainstream.

I had rock solid sources and since I started to work on it  I have acquired others.

I had initially taken the Rangers/HMRC story to the News of the World.

The news editor of the Scottish edition, after consulting his boss, commissioned me to write a series of pieces on the subject.

Martin Bain spoke to me on the record when I contacted him as a freelancer for the NOTW.

I spoke to him on Saturday May 15th  2010.  As I have stated before on here he was very helpful. Little did either of us know that day that his own employment with the club would come to an end and that his compensation claim would shed further light on the state of the club he loves.

The NOTW went with the story.

I wrote my own feature length piece about the story a few weeks later.

https://www.philmacgiollabhain.ie/taxing-times-for-rangers/

Once more the first response of Rangers supporters was to disbelieve what was being reported.

First they didn’t believe that Martin Bain had spoken to me.

He did.

Secondly many of them thought that his views had been misrepresented.

They weren’t.

I noted earlier this year how the story had went mainstream.

https://www.philmacgiollabhain.ie/how-the-rangers-tax-case-went-mainstream/

In August I learned that Sheriff Officers acting on behalf of HMRC would visit Ibrox apropos an unpaid tax bill.

https://www.philmacgiollabhain.ie/the-sheriff-is-in-town/

However some people don’t believe words they need pictures.

https://www.philmacgiollabhain.ie/photographs-you-were-not-meant-to-see/

Arranging that “Kodak moment” in having my own freelance snapper and tipping off the Sun ,through a colleague, probably broke the final barrier to this story becoming safe for the Scottish hack pack to start to look, however faint heartedly, at this story.

Now Rangers and the words “insolvency” and “administration” are  in the mainstream.

Funds are ring fenced by court action by formers employees and unpaid creditors.

Eminent judges accept that the club is in danger of going bust and find against them.

The most recent case involving Rangers in the Court of Session with ex-finance director Donald McIntyre saw the, perhaps unprecedented, event of the club not being legally represented in court.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-15353713

For the past few weeks the BBC investigations unit’s researchers have been discovering to their amazement facts about Rangers’ finances that were on this site over a year ago.

Today the club withdrew cooperation from the BBC claiming  that the national broadcaster had an anti-Rangers bias.

http://news.stv.tv/scotland/west-central/275198-rangers-withdraw-cooperation-with-bbc/

Yesterday Rangers’ legend John Greig has resigned claiming he was frozen out of the running of the club by the new regime.

As I have stated many times on here I DO believe that Rangers will go into Administration and not necessarily because of the tax case currently in the tribunal system.

The club doesn’t, by their own admission, have a credit line and the Malmo debacle may turn out to have been the hinge factor that scuppered a very sketchy business plan.

Without access to bank borrowing the negative cash flow inherent in the current season will choke them.

In that scenario Administration would follow very very quickly.

As I’ve been finishing this piece I have had Clyde 1 Super scoreboard streaming and the Rangers fans have been screaming.

There is very little denial around now.

The “A” word is now common currency when Rangers are discussed.

It’s just the truth.

Mission accomplished.

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