Red, Whyte and blue: the Rangers saga continues
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”.
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.
Alex Thomson asks if football can now get back in the spotlight as the Nimmo-Smith independent commission clears Glasgow Rangers of cheating.
The Nimmo-Smith report could exonerate Rangers’ over player payments, or lead to a range of sanctions ranging from titles being stripped to a “slap over the wrist with a limp lettuce leaf”
An online debate on Rangers Football Club. What happened, what’s next and what are the lessons for football?
Following feverish online speculation, Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson reveals the truth behind rumours of a winding-up petition against Rangers Newco.
With rumblings of discontent over the relationship between HMRC and the media, Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson looks at the latest status of the Rangers “Big Tax Case”.
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.
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.
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.
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.
“A bizarre document the tone of which is near-panic,” Alex Thomson reviews the Scottish Football League’s proposals for Rangers’ future in Scottish football.
Mr Whyte is accused by an eminent legal tribunal of directly masterminding a deliberate non-payment of tax. But the whole point here is that tribunal first and now appelate tribunal explicitly hold the ‘club’ (the directors) responsible for this joint enterprise of non-payment.
Channel 4 News Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson blogs on Rangers Football Club.
Channel 4 News Chief Correspondent, Alex Thomson, on the latest Old Firm goings on at Celtic Park (that’s Parkhead to him)