We are certainly living through strange days indeed on Planet Fitba.
Firstly we had the utter defenestration of the Times yesterday for their amazing exclusive based on a BDO press release from June.
Then their breathless scoop on the great tax injustice perpetrated on Rangers was widely ridiculed.
Then the Sun, yes the Sun, reached out to a qualified expert for a lengthy Q & A on the technicalities of the subject worthy of…well… the Times!
Oh dear…
As ever, Hector was quite measured in his response.
There was some support for the Times narrative in another blatt.
Twitter put down of the day goes to legal reporter James Doleman.
However, in true Trumpian style, the fake news worked.
That is because the target audience of the spin regularly attends a centre of excellence for credulousness-Ibrox.
It quickly became apparent on social media that this new narrative was being enthusiastically gulped down.
Just like Charles of Normandy with his “Rangers then, Rangers now, Rangers forever” in 2012 it was exactly what they wanted to hear at Ibrox.
In return for assisting them with their denial, he got himself a rather nice Château and a comfortable stipend from the Sevco Triangle.
The speed with which this spin worked was something to see.
Indeed, by late last night, it had become an accepted fact among some of The People that HMRC owed the current iteration at Ibrox £50m!
It is undeniable that post-2012 the zeitgeist at Ibrox was based on a strong sense of Dolchstoßlegende.
The explanation for this is not complicated.
The klan believed this self-serving pish because the truth was simply too painful.
Rangers had died in liquidation.
When the “L” word was allowed to be spoken among the Ibrox klanbase they knew exactly what it meant.
Moreover, the cause of death could be found in the Blue Room and in their own deference to rather dodgy authority figures in brogues.
That excoriating truth makes the Ibrox klanbase very vulnerable to a specific brand of dignified pish.
Now, if I was writing this as a spoof on succulent churnalism, I would create a journalist who was reared in a West Lothian home where the colour green was not tolerated during his childhood.
Of course, such a thing would not happen in real life…
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Of course Fat Swally McCoist talks about job losses at the liquidated club but fails to mention the job losses and companies that folded due to unpaid bills from the liquidated Rangers.
The lack of self awareness is typical from the Govan hordes.
You couldn’t mark their necks with a blow torch.
Testing.
Did anyone else try to remove the eyelash from this page?
Got to hand it to level 5 and the sign off on this RIFC piece. Steve Bannon would have been impressed, the populism effect relies on repetition, simplistic messaging and in this case the emotion of anger. Normally you’d try to provoke and anger but the Klan have this as a hand me down from the Peepul since the beginning off the dearly departed RFC.
CFC must just stay focused on the the pitch and we will defeat this off and online malevolent skulduggery. The rest of Scottish football, doesn’t have an interest and is purely parochial on the issue, so they will protect their own klans, and that is true of Scottish Societies long before those in this century and will probably be this way long after.
If there is ANY justice to this, then there will be a fundamental crack in their DNA. Nevermind; the creditors still awaiting payment and the ordinary folk who lost employment. That withstanding, the MSM, the SFA, and anyone else complicity in a cover up or a deflection, should also be on a public trail at an truly independent inquiry. Not Nimmo Smith Way of popping over to his neighbours SDM and discussing the position -over Sunday lunch.
There was a major cover up in the North West of England, and it hasten almost 3 decades to get someone accountable. Not for a minute I am comparing, merely emphasising a point, that media cover ups to suit a narrative are not that all unbelievable and the positions of authorities to help assist this machiavellian approach.
A Kulchur, built on a Racist outlook and imperialist existence, is controlled from, a convict chairman, what else can you expect. As this unexplained X-file of Alien existence goes on, I think it was quite apt that Dana Scully was pictured front and centre beside a key piece of evidence!
Whatever payback The Times was promised for running this PR p!sh… it won’t be enough.
A once decent paper has managed to relegate – or demote – itself in Scotland to tabloid territory with a blatantly untrue ‘scoop’, and a massive error of judgement.
This article is surely a slow release smokebomb for something else coming down the line. Sales perhaps? Stevie G going even? Exciting time
Like James Duffy has said in an earlier post, I too do not blame the Ibrox faithful for jumping on the nonsense from The Times. I do, however, take issue with the Times for allowing such utter garbage on their front page. Other journalistic sources are no better. Douglas Fraser at the BBC and Roddy Forsyth at The Telegraph, for example, refer to the old company that ran Rangers. This is all the sort of newspeak that Orwell warned us about in his classic novel 1984.
The various articles are also extremely economic with their facts.
There is no mention of the fact that EBTs continued for six years after they were uncovered – which, had they stopped, might have rescued the old club. This is what killed Rangers – not Craig Whyte.
I also saw no mention of side letters hidden from the footballing authorities which prove they cheated other teams in Scotland.
There was no mention of the other debts that had piled up so high they could not afford to pay the face painter.
If what happened at Rangers had happened at Man U or Liverpool the press would have been all over it and questions would have been raised in the House of Commons.
Instead, we have a new company masquerading as the old club yet claiming to be a holding company – if you research what a holding company actually is then you will know RIFC is no holding company.
We also have a governing body allowing a convicted criminal from South Africa (who is cold shouldered in the UK and has delisted the stock which he continually dilutes in value to smaller shareholders) to run a football club that operates at a loss year in year out.
Worst of all, we have a free press who are allowed to peddle fake news to appease a certain section of Scottish society.
It really is disgraceful.
The only shining light was seeing so many people showing themselves up to be a fool by jumping on the bandwagon rolled out by The Times, only for HMRC to bring it to a shuddering halt in the most succinct fashion.
The separation of ‘club’ and ‘company’ is going to be debunked when the ‘club’ takes someone or a business/company to court.
If the ‘club’ send out a writ on behalf of the ‘company’ and it’s the ‘company’ and not the ‘club’ that turn up in court, a determination will have to me made by the court that they are in fact one and the same thing or a defence lawyer will motion to have the case dismissed as a ‘club’ is not a legal entity.
This is where the big separation lie of ‘club’ and ‘company’ will end.
As an aside, EBT’s were never deemed as being legal.
They were ‘to be determined’.
That ‘to be determined’ was eventually deemed as being illegal.
I personally know companies that undertook the EBT route, but as it was ‘to be determined’ they were prepared, and had the funds to ‘pay up’ if the determination went against them.
They took the gamble, but ultimately they paid up knowing that it was indeed a gamble.
The Rangers Football Club did not set aside funds to pay up if the determination of EBT’s were deemed as illegal.
Arrogance and seen as being ‘too big to fail’ led them to believe they couldn’t lose.
In this corrupt little shitehole, they were proved correct.
Liquidation and a decade of cheating has been swept under the carpet.
Nothing to see here.
The Govan ghouls have cheated Scottish football to death.
No football clubs can now borrow money from lending institutions when they can just dissolve their company and write off their debt and carry on as the same club.
The precedent has now been set.
The game’s a bogey.
It’s now a day out on the piss for football fans.
Any notion of fair competition is well and truly screwed.
Sevco clowns don’t understand what a holding company is.
It’s not a company that has anything to do with a fictitious’club’.
Here’s what a holding company is.
A holding company is a company that owns other companies’ outstanding stock. A holding company usually does not produce goods or services itself (with no eponymous consumer-facing brand at most times); rather, its purpose is to own shares of other companies to form a corporate group. Holding companies allow the reduction of risk for the owners and can allow the ownership and control of a number of different companies.
Only the hun, with their enormous sense of self entitlement, would be looking for compensation for money that they never actually paid.
They are beyond parody.
Here’s a wee scenario. The current incarnation takes HMRC to court in a litigation expressing dismay that they miscalculated the bill.
Judges find in their favour.
Now HMRC turns back up at Ibrokes and says sorry, it’s not 50 million you owe it’s 20 million.
Can we have our cash please?
Errrr…….
I don’t blame the Ibrox faithful for jumping on this piece of Times nonsense and taking some sort of consolation in believing that someone else was responsible for the death of their club. After all, they’ve had a horrid 7 years so any positive news, no matter how ridiculous, is going to be seized upon like a comfort blanket. Let them have their 24 hours of hope even though the climb down back to reality will be twice as painful!
Intelligence is not a sevconian’s strong point, to be fair. I mean, as nice a fella as he is, my nephew’s pal’s dad is a prime example of gross stupidity.
The pal and his dad were both invited along to a birthday meal to celebrate my nephew’s 21st really entry. The meal was in an Italian restaurant in glasgow city centre. Dad asked me to order for him, as he couldn’t speak or read SPANISH!!
Not so much a WATP moment – more of a WTF?!! moment. 😂
…21st RECENTLY
Ask a fan of the Govan outfit what the club owns and what the company owns.
You won’t get an answer.
Ask a fan of the Govan club who are the committee members of this fictitious club?
Who is the president, the treasurer, the other committee members.
All ‘clubs’ ceased being ‘’clubs’ when they incorporated into a ltd company.
Using Govan logic, no businesses can be liquidated as the company is a separate entity from a fictitious ‘club’.
If that were the case, every company would call themselves a ‘club’ to avoid liquidation being the end.
Another thing that is ignored by the SMSM is that under UEFA rules, a ‘club’ must be a legal entity.
A ‘club’ isn’t a legal entity which is why incorporation happened to all football businesses.
Can I buy the history of Red Rum if I buy a horse and kit it out in the colours of Red Rum?