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Alex Thomson
I leave shortly, once more, for a city rather drier and a good deal more violent than Glasgow. But before I do let me leave you with the question – were Rangers cheating?
Alex Thomson
A tax avoidance scheme allowing some Rangers players and staff to receive millions of pounds without paying income tax is ruled within the law – but the authorities are considering an appeal.
Alex Thomson
Letters filled with HIV-contaminated razor blades – just one of the potential threats faced by Gary Allan QC, who sat on the Scottish Football Association panel which passed punished Rangers.
His house was put under police surveillance and he was warned about the potential dangers of opening mail – Gary Allan QC speaks about the consequences of sitting on a panel which punished Rangers.
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An element of the Rangers customer base remains out of order and neither Rangers, nor Scotland’s football authorities, nor the police appear willing or able to do much about it.
Alex Thomson
It’s come to something when a Scottish law lord has to convene a press conference to reassert his own independence, but that’s what’s happened in relation to the Rangers saga writes Alex Thomson.
Alex Thomson
One or two Rangers supporters have been asking in recent weeks why I decided to write the foreword for Phil Mac Giolla Bhain’s book on Rangers, Downfall.
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Alex Thomson blogs on the confluence, rather than conflict, of interest in the ongoing Rangers saga.
Alex Thomson
Try as I might it is next to impossible to puncture the extraordinary secrecy surrounding the First Tier Tax Tribunal where the fate of Rangers is to be determined.
Alex Thomson
Here’s the email leaked to Channel 4 News last Thursday the details of which I blogged on Friday. Some club chairmen say that Mr Regan should now resign as a result of what’s going on here, back on June 23rd. That is a matter for them.
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“This is a shabby deal, as clearly many Chairmen recognise, which is why several leaked what Green said to me yards from the front steps of Hampden Park.”
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“But do not rule out attempts – against all odds and against an overwhelming D3 mandate – by the SPL to try just this.”
Regular old firm matches, which have been a fixture of Scottish football for over a century, look set to end. “New Rangers” have been voted into division three after the old company went bust.
Alex Thomson
A senior Football League source has just leaked this to me. Note second section which appears to be a clear attempt to by-pass any vote and shoehorn Rangers Newco into Div 1. Incredible.
Alex Thomson
So it is that I find myself covering a venerable Scottish sporting institution, which has caused disappointment, heartache and agony to countless people in recent times and in which the central recurring name is Murray, blogs Alex Thomson.