After Rangers, English football warned: put your house in order
After the Rangers debacle, MPs tell English football it is time to put its own house in order – and stop taking financial risks that threaten the future of the game.
After the Rangers debacle, MPs tell English football it is time to put its own house in order – and stop taking financial risks that threaten the future of the game.
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.
Rangers were among the world’s most successful football clubs. The old Rangers company no longer exists, replaced by a new company, plying their trade in the third division. Alex Thomson explains why.
Lord Nimmo Smith’s commission investigating alleged undisclosed payments to Rangers players begins today. The accompanying graphic shows the club titles that are under threat.
The fight back from Scottish football fans following the recent turmoil is well underway and the authorities say they are listening.
After the implosion of Rangers Football Club, Alex Thomson blogs on the latest initiative targeting the Scottish football authorities.
Police clash with rioters in east Belfast for another night – but although the violence is nasty enough, it is not spreading across the city.
Will 2013 see a return to football as normal for Rangers? Fans want to see justice over the whole tax avoidance issue – and for RFC to get the fresh start it needs.
Lead by example says Alex Thomson – show your loyalty to Rangers by volunteering to pay back the loans you got when times were good.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.