Rangers, tax and ‘no surrender’?
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.
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.
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”.
Channel 4 News has seen a copy of the Letter Before Action now sent from lawyers acting for Craig Whyte, to Rangers FC and key shareholders involved with the club.
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.
Amidst all the secrecy, the refusal to break cover, the smoke and general mirrors surrounding the Rangers fiasco – suddenly, along comes a surprise. Tristan Loughren, a Scotsman who has spent more than 20 years out of the country closing various deals as an investment banker among other trades, is nothing if not frank and open.
Craig Whyte, the man who bought Rangers from Sir David Murray for a pound when the club was in a deep mess will now – in theory – sell it on for a pound now it’s in a much deeper mess.
Is an English-led rescue for Glasgow’s Rangers Football Club on the horizon?
Channel 4 News Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson blogs on Rangers Football Club.
This is the time for leadership, from Scottish football’s governing bodies, from the chairmen of the SPL clubs – but above all from Rangers Football Club. As yet, I see little sign of leadership emerging, of men who see values, not just figures.
Channel 4 News Chief Correspondent, Alex Thomson, on the latest Old Firm goings on at Celtic Park (that’s Parkhead to him)
Craig Whyte speaks in the wake of the latest sanctions to hit Rangers. But is he talking the supporters’ language?
Rangers goes to the heart of how we wish to live and be governed in sport, culture, business and politics too. Do we want rules that are applied to governance? Or do we simply want to drift along in the casino world?
There are men, already well-off and many on fat salaries, who we know have yet to pay back any of the loans they received whilst Rangers went to the wall. It would be good to report that these men are inspired by the fans of the club they love, to open their chequebooks to needy creditors across Glasgow. But sadly, as yet, little sign of it happening.
Channel 4 News Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson talks to Craig Whyte regarding the rumours flying around about Rangers.
Succulent lamb culture has permeated to a degree that, as one prominent Glasgow tabloid journalist put it: “The press -a really critical check and balance in the normal way of things, had been more or less destroyed in Glasgow.”