As the media have now finally started to print the intentions of the SFA and SPL against Rangers, it is abundantly clear that Rangers fans need to act to save our club.
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/2012/07/18/revealed-football-chiefs-secret-plan-to-strip-rangers-of-nine-trophies-over-ebt-tax-dodge-86908-23909684/
FOOTBALL chiefs produced a secret plan to strip Rangers of five SPL titles and four Scottish Cups.
The bombshell document, seen by the Daily Record, was drafted after talks involving the SFA, SPL, Scottish Football League and representatives of Charles Green’s Sevco.
It outlines a range of punishments for Rangers for the Employment Benefit Trust tax dodge used by Sir David Murray’s regime to pay players.
If enforced, the penalties listed would be the harshest ever seen in football. They include:
● STRIPPING the club of their league titles from 2002/3, 2004/5, 2008/9, 2009/10 and 2010/11;
● WIPING OUT Rangers’ Scottish Cup triumphs of 2001/2, 2002/3, 2007/8 and 2008/9;
● FORCING Rangers to accept the one-year transfer embargo imposed by the SFA and overturned by the Court of Session;
● ORDERING Green’s newco to pay Rangers’ old football debts to clubs in Scotland and Europe.
It is absolutely clear that these sanctions are only possible because Rangers are desperate to gain an SFA Licence. Had Rangers been in the SPL with their licence, the footballing authorities would not have had a chance of anyone at Ibrox accepting such harsh sanctions.
Charles Green and Malcolm Murray are in a very awkward situation, which the SFA and SPL are also exploiting.
“Accept these sanctions or you’re out of football” seems to be the threat, with Green clearly fearing that scenario.
Given the fear engulfing the game, with many clubs in the SPL fearing for their future, it would be understandable for fans to wish Green tell Regan and Doncaster where to go, and watch them worry as the scenario unfolds, then crawl back to Green having dropped the demands.
If the last few months have taught Rangers fans anything, it should have taught us that the hatred of our club by our enemies knows no bounds, and it is not out with the realms of possibility that Regan or Doncaster would not blink as they consign Rangers to death.
We have to be ready that such a gamble by Green could be fatal and would most probably kill our club. Given that Green is struggling to win over many Rangers fans, he may think that accepting these sanctions to give us a future in football is the lesser of two evils.
I have no doubt, that whatever decision he makes will see him become public enemy number one with the Rangers support.
While I too have doubts about some of Green’s investors, with Blue Pitch Holdings looking decidedly dodgy, I am not buying the fact that this is the sticking point to Rangers obtaining an SFA licence.
I’m more of a view that Green is not willing to accept such harsh sanctions, and that these sanctions are designed to cause maximum damage to Rangers, and to benefit Celtic Football Club.
If titles are re-allocated to the second team, titles will be automatically awarded as follows
2002/3 – Celtic
2004/5 – Celtic
2008/9 – Celtic
2009/10 – Celtic
2010/11 – Celtic
Scottish Cup Runners Up:
2001/2 – Celtic
2002/3 – Dundee
2007/8 – QoS
2008/9 – Falkirk
So, in this scenario Celtic jump to 48 “titles” and Rangers drop to 49 titles, with Rangers out of the SPL for at least 3 years.
Yet few are willing to see the agenda at work here? And for what?
Have Rangers been found guilty by Celtic’s lawyers called in by the SPL to investigate, without even getting to have their day in “court” to argue their case?
http://williampoole.wordpress.com/2012/03/22/the-spls-kangaroo-court/
What advantage did Rangers have in the last two of these seasons as Lloyds were strangling the club, and the transfer freeze was in place. With their men on Rangers board, the practise in question was not stopped?
As HMRC stated when refusing to accept the proposed CVA by Charles Green, they see the culprits on EBTs not as Rangers football club, but as the Murray Group. Why should the SPL take a different view?
http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/news/rangers.htm
The agenda is clear to see.
Charles Green is not in a position to fight it. Other prospective owners cannot fight it. They may damage Green’s position with the SFA (and by extension Rangers position) further, if they fail to move their focus from Green to Regan, Doncaster, Eric Reilly and Peter Lawwell.
The only people who can prevent this are US.
There is a theory that Doncaster and Regan were recruited specifically for this task, and that demos and protests will have no impact as they finalise that task and ride off in to the Sunset. That may be fanciful, or it may be true, but the only way will find out, and the only we have any chance of saving our club is to test their resolve and do just that, in great numbers and in great voice and in the right place at the right time for maximum impact.
The unity shown on the day of the RFFF led march to Hampden to protest against the illegal transfer embargo must be restored, and it must be restored within days, or our club could die.
Bill.
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