Alex Thomson
Rangers: Why I endorsed Downfall book
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
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Alex Thomson
Rangers: Confluence of interest
Alex Thomson blogs on the confluence, rather than conflict, of interest in the ongoing Rangers saga.
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Alex Thomson
Why can’t we know what has delayed the Rangers Tax Tribunal?
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.
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Alex Thomson
Rangers: the leaked e-mail
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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Alex Thomson
The League of Gentlemen – and ‘Rangers’
“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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Alex Thomson
Rangers: Division three?
“But do not rule out attempts – against all odds and against an overwhelming D3 mandate – by the SPL to try just this.”
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Alex Thomson
Football chairmen living in ‘fairytale world’
Just into Glasgow after an illuminating day speaking to club chairmen and officials of Scottish football which right now appears in a state of something like civil war.
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Rangers voted into division three
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.
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Alex Thomson
Your questions ‘answered’ by Football’s governing bodies
Does the Scottish Football Association consider itself bound by Friday’s vote? You’d think this would be a yes or no – but nothing in the Rangers case is simple.
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Alex Thomson
Will there be a Hampden vote on Friday 13th?
Will there not? Will there be a meeting even? Nothing is certain. My sources inside the Scottish Football League reckon that the voting for Division 3 is pretty much around the 50-50 mark right now. But any amount of events across coming days can alter that and probably will.
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Alex Thomson
‘Despicable’ actions of Scottish football authorities
My sources are senior and widely respected figures in Scottish League Football and rarely have I heard men so angry about an invitation to a meeting, writes Alex Thomson.
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Alex Thomson
Rangers: the vote that never was?
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.
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Alex Thomson
Rangers: passion and commitment above all reason
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.
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Alex Thomson
Momentous day for Scottish football
The day began unpromisingly, but at Hampden Park by mid-afternoon Rangers’ future was dealt with. Alex Thomson blogs on a momentous day in Scottish football.
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Alex Thomson
Potential conflicts of interest at the heart of Scottish football
Channel 4 News has a Companies House list of Rangers shareholders for 2008 and 2010. They prove, for instance, that the current Airdrie chairman and president of the Scottish Football League, James William Ballantyne, had 568 Rangers shares in 2008 when chairman of Airdrie.
