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Former manager and Ibrox legend Walter Smith is leading a last-minute bid for control of the new company that will replace Rangers. Andrew McFadyen reports.
As Rangers play their first match since going into administration, Scottish football journalist Graham Spiers writes for Channel 4 News and says the next few weeks will be “grisly” for the club.
Alex Thomson
Lord Nimmo Smith’s commission, which begins today, decides whether Rangers told the football authorities about the money they paid players as part of a tax avoidance scheme. A lot is at stake.
The Supreme Court has ruled in favour of the taxman in a legal battle with the Scottish football club Rangers. More than £47 million was paid to players and club officials through “employee benefit trusts”. The club argued the payments were loans but the court ruled they were taxable earnings. The judgement could mean many…
Alex Thomson
After the biggest organised cheating scandal in the history of Scottish football, the former Rangers owners now face at last paying the British state the tax and NI they dodged for all those years.
Alex Thomson
HMRC is adamant there is money in there to be had and the court now says the state is owed what will be a substantial sum – barring any appeal process, of course.
Alex Thomson
Whilst Rangers FC were busy winning titles and silverware the entire basis upon which they paid many players and executives should have attracted income tax and did not do so.
Alex Thomson
Gratifyingly, with the new season and the new rash of clubs busy censoring the media, the Great Banning Debate is now very much alive. Good.
Alex Thomson
Football clubs across the UK are banning reporters from their stadiums because they don’t like what’s being reported. Nowhere else in British public life is this tolerated.
Alex Thomson
There are football clubs in England and Scotland who feel it is perfectly normal to ban any journalist guilty of perpetrating journalism they disapprove of.
Alex Thomson
An ill-judged tweet alleged to have come from a prominent Rangers supporter who is now a non-executive director at the club, should prompt an immediate apology.
Alex Thomson
Scottish football faces its own Ched Evans syndrome. Should a man with a past be given a second chance to have a high-profile position in (potentially) big-money football?
Alex Thomson
You can’t really complain about a shadow over Rangers and the effect on the club’s value when the club itself has broken the rules.
Alex Thomson
And so the lawyers have gathered in Edinburgh and the so-called Rangers big tax case begins another round.
Alex Thomson
My source insists that Craig Whyte’s claim to own the Rangers assets is alive and well and we should all “expect significant movement in the legal case in the next few weeks”.