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The survival and rebuilding of my club the Rangers is more important to me than the co-efficient points gained by other clubs,while I don't celebrate other teams getting beat I don't cheer them when they win. For far too long it is all left to Rangers to keep Scottish football as high as possible,and while doing that the fans of other teams who do cheer when Rangers lose in Europe don't care about co-efficient points,including the SFA themselves when getting to the final in Manchester proved.

THIS is the man who will be taking the decision on the Rangers Big Tax case. Scots barrister Kenneth Mure QC is chairing the three-person tribunal on the £50million offshore tax avoidance schemes which helped drag Rangers into financial disaster. The schemes â?? known as Employee Benefit Trusts â?? were run by the club between 2001 and 2010 during Sir David Murrayâ??s ownership. Rangers set up the foreign trusts for 87 players and staff â?? then paid cash into them in addition to their regular wages, which meant UK tax was avoided on the extra money. Ex-skipper Barry Ferguson pocketed £2.49million tax- free. Former manager Alex McLeish got £1.7million and German keeper Stefan Klos was given £2million. Ex-chairman Murray himself got £6.3million via an EBT, although he says the money came via Murray International Holdings, not the club. The Inland Revenue believe the Rangers EBT payments were against the law, a claim Rangers disputed at every stage of the tribunal. A possible multi-million pound fine over the EBTs was one of the reasons Bank of Scotland pressured Murray into selling the club for £1 to Craig Whyte last year. Mure is presiding over the tax tribunal with accountancy experts Dr Heidi Poon and Scott Rae. But last night, Her Majestyâ??s Courts and Tribunals Service said there is no set date for when the decision will be known. The result was originally expected around Easter, after Rangers went into administration but before the club were liquidated. But a courts service spokeswoman said last night: â??There has never been a set time for a decision. â??All the evidence has been heard and it is now a matter of the ruling being issued.â? The spokeswoman would not say when the evidence part of the procedure had begun, how many days it had lasted, or who gave evidence. The determination issued by the tribunal, with Mure as judge, will address what measures could be taken by HMRC against Rangers now the club have ceased to exist in their old form. But even if the tribunal rules against Rangers, there is little the taxman can do to retrieve any fine imposed. Financial expert Neil Patey, a partner in accountancy giants Ernst and Young, said: â??HMRC will have no claim on the newco. The newco bought the assets of the oldco, not its corporate history. â??In essence, a victory for HMRC will mean it will get a significantly bigger proportion of the £1million or so available from the £5.5million put in by Charles Greenâ??s consortium. This will obviously mean other creditors get significantly less.â? http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/2012/07/27/kenneth-mure-qc-named-as-man-tasked-with-ruling-on-rangers-big-tax-case-86908-23913367/

http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/...roval.18258382 CONTRACTS will be signed with Sky and ESPN to show 65 matches per season from the Scottish Premier League and Irn-Bru Third Division if Rangers newco's Scottish Football Association membership is approved later today. Sky will have the rights to 30 games, starting with Celtic versus Aberdeen at Parkhead next Saturday lunchtime, then Rangers newco's opening third division encounter at Peterhead on August 11. ESPN would have 35 live games and the first would be Dundee United versus Hibernian on Sunday, August 5. Herald Sport understands that a deal involving the SPL, Scottish Football League and the two broadcasters – and including rights for 15 of the newco's league games per season – will preserve most of the value of the existing £16m-a-season television agreement for the current campaign. That will spare top-flight clubs from the most severe repercussions some had feared from at least three years without the Ibrox club. The television deal is agreed in principle but cannot be signed until Sevco Scotland Ltd's application for the transfer of Rangers' SFA membership is approved. That needs to happen before the club can play its first match at Brechin City in the Ramsdens Cup on Sunday afternoon. In theory, approval could be given at any time up until kick-off, but practicalities and exchanges of documents essentially mean it has to be done today. But all five parties – Sevco Scotland, the oldco Rangers, the SFA, SPL and SFL – were understood to believe the discussions were almost there last night and that there will be a satisfactory conclusion, and the signing of contracts, later today. Representatives from Charles Green's newco regime held further negotiations with Neil Doncaster, the SPL chief executive, yesterday. A major obstacle has been the SPL's view that accepting any potential punishment from its ongoing investigation into undisclosed payments to players via Employment Benefit Trusts – alleged to have happened over several years of the oldco Rangers – should be accepted by Sevco as a condition of membership. Manager Ally McCoist and some others at Ibrox have vigorously opposed any acceptance that the club could be stripped of league titles if a guilty verdict is returned. BBC Alba will have live coverage of Rangers' tie at Brechin and yesterday the channel was continuing to plan as though the match would go ahead. As for the longer-term deal involving Sky and ESPN, the companies will discuss how the SPL and third division coverage is shared in the weeks and months ahead. "It will be up to the broadcasters to decide how the games are carved up," said a source at one SPL club.

NEIL Lennon is being chased for legal costs after losing more than £100,000 in a tax scheme and failing to get his cash back. Experts say the Celtic manager and his fellow investors could face a bill of up to £20million after a judge threw out their lawsuit. And the group going after the money include lawyers Collyer Bristow, who advised Craig Whyte on his disastrous takeover of Rangers. Lennon put £200,000 into two investment schemes in 2003, when he was earning £30,000 a week at Celtic. He was told they would save him almost £500,000 in income tax. Celtic striker John Hartson, England goalkeeper Paul Robinson and English rugby stars Joe Worsley and Jason Leonard also invested cash. But they all lost out after the Inland Revenue said the schemes were against tax rules. Lennon only got back £80,000 of his money â?? and received none of the tax benefits he was promised. The schemesâ?? architect, disgraced Danish entrepreneur Bjorn Stiedl, was jailed for an unrelated pension fraud in 2004. Lennon and more than 500 other investors teamed up to sue the company behind the schemes, Innovator One. Stiedl was the driving force behind the firm. But they all lost out after the Inland Revenue said the schemes were against tax rules. The highly complex investment plans were designed to exploit tax breaks for investors who put their money into software and technology. The incentives were brought in after the dotcom crash hit technology shares on global stock markets in 2000. Lennon put a total of £200,000 into two schemes â?? one called Mamjam Technology Platform Partnership and another called Casedirector Technology Partnership. Investors put in a little more than £6million. The schemes then took out another £19million in bank loans and used the cash to buy software from another company. The idea was that Lennon would be able to count £800,000 of the borrowed money as part of his investment, giving him a total of £1million and allowing him to reduce his income tax bill by £400,000. But the company who sold the software to the schemes then put the borrowed money on deposit with the bank, meaning it had effectively gone round in a circle. And the taxman ruled that, because of that, the investors could only claim tax breaks on the money they had put in themselves. That meant Lennon would only have got back up to £80,000. And since the investment scheme failed, the rest of his stake was wiped out, saddling him with a £120,000 loss. Celtic Hartson invested £120,000 in the same two schemes as his former teammate. He joined Lennon and the other investors in the lawsuit against Innovator One. They claimed at the High Court in London that the schemes were fraudulent and had been badly put together. In all, they alleged, their investments had been mis-sold for more than a dozen different reasons. But judge Mr Justice Hamblen rejected their case. He ruled: â??Although the claimants were understandably aggrieved to lose their cash contributions and receive back only limited tax relief, there are obvious risks in going into aggressive tax schemes which offer the prospect of almost immediately doubling your money.â? Collyer Bristow were one of the defendants in the lawsuit after acting as lawyers for Innovator One, and are now preparing to try to claim back their costs from the investors. A costs hearing is expected later in the year. No date has been set. If the bill does reach £20million, it will leave the 555 investors facing costs of £36,000 each. Lennon and Hartson declined to comment. The Innovator One schemes were similar to more recent schemes involving film financing which have also proved popular among footballers because of promises to massively lower their income tax bills. But the film schemes have often proved similarly unsuccessful, with the taxman refusing to hand over rebates. Collyer Bristow advised Whyte on his takeover of Rangers and handled the money paid by Ticketus in exchange for the rights to future Ibrox season ticket sales. Whyteâ??s lawyer at Collyer Bristow, Gary Withey, briefly served as Rangers company secretary. But he claimed he had no involvement in the day-to-day running of the club and knew nothing about the decision by Whyte not to pay income tax and VAT. He quit Collyer Bristow in March, claiming he and his family had been threatened because of his Rangers involvement. Rangersâ?? administrators, Duff & Phelps, sued Collyer Bristow and Rangers FC Group â?? the company Whyte used as a vehicle for his takeover â?? for £25million in April. They claimed Whyte and Withey conspired to buy Rangers when they knew they didnâ??t have the money to do so, and the clubâ??s board shelved plans for a £25million share issue as a result. A full hearing in the case has been set for October. Collyer Bristow and Withey deny wrongdoing and the law firm have vowed to strongly contest the claims, which they have described as â??highly speculativeâ?. http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/2012/07/27/celtic-boss-neil-lennon-one-of-500-investors-facing-possible-20m-bill-after-tax-scheme-failure-86908-23913366/

Will the SFL get behind their member clubs Rangers & Brechin to push this through?

RANGERS could finally be awarded SFA membership â?? but only for ONE DAY. Ally McCoistâ??s men are set to land a conditional licence to face Brechin in a televised Ramsdens Cup clash on Sunday. Then it will be taken back off them before talks continue next week. That is one of the options being considered by football chiefs as the stormy wrangle over the clubâ??s membership of the SFA rages on. Just TWO days before Gers are due to play competitive football again, they have not yet been given the licence they need. They continue to be at loggerheads with the SPL over the future punishments and TV rights. High level talks have hit a wall after a fortnight. And as the deadline looms ahead of this weekendâ??s action, there have been real fears that the cup clash with Brechin scheduled may NOT be able to go ahead. That has prompted officials to look into a compromise solution â?? and the 90 minute licence could fit the bill. Legally SFA chiefs may be unable to sanction such a move â?? but they will still try if no agreement is reached by tonight. Gers are refusing to cave in and sign any agreement which could see them stripped of league titles won during the EBT years. But the SPL insist that an independent tribunal must be allowed to study the evidence and make a ruling. That is the biggest stumbling block in discussions between five parties. The so-called old Rangers, new Rangers, the SPL, the SFA and SFL are all involved. E-mails were being sent back and forth late last night in a bid to finalise things and discussions will resume this morning in the hope that a deal can be struck. Itâ??s unclear whether that would allow boss McCoist to sign any of his targets. Ian Black and Craig Beattie have been training with a view to signing deals. Robbie Savage has revealed he wants to come out of retirement to play in the Third Division. But until the club has got SFA membership no players can actually be signed. Meanwhile, Allan McGregor has joined Besiktas and insisted: â??Iâ??m ready for the challenge.â? The ex-Rangers keeper, 30, agreed a two-year deal worth £35,000 a week with the Turkish cracks. Gregsy, 30, completed his medical and will now jet out to Austria to join up with his new team-mates. He said: â??Itâ??s a big club with big tradition and supposedly they have great fans who make a lot of noise. â??Itâ??s a new challenge thatâ??s come up and Iâ??m ready for it. Iâ??ll be giving my all here, as I do every time I play.â? Gers owner Charles Green will fight for compensation insisting McGregor could NOT quit Ibrox for nothing. McGregor insisted: â??My club went into liquidation in June and I became a free agent.â? http://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/scotsol/homepage/sport/leaguedivision3/4457052/Gers-set-to-get-nod-at-last-but-only-for-telly-game-at-Brechin.html

RANGERS DEAL ALMOST DONE Friday July 27,2012 By Graham Clark and Scott Burns Comment Speech Bubble Have your say(0) RANGERS will discover their football fate today, with the signs last night pointing to a compromise deal having been secured with the SPL. And that will: * Bring official recognition from the SFA; * Give the go-ahead for Sunday’s Ramsdens Cup tie against Brechin City; * Allow manager Ally McCoist to set about rebuilding his squad. If, as seems likely, a resolution has been found it almost certainly means a deal has been struck over television rights and the dual contracts issue, although the latter may have been set aside meantime to allow investigations elsewhere to be completed. It’s understood former Hearts midfielder Ian Black has agreed a four-year deal to join the Light Blues, with his former Tynecastle team-mate Craig Beattie still training at Murray Park and also ready to commit himself to the newco Gers. ì I am excited to be here. Besiktas is a big club and I can’t wait to get started î Allan McGregor Striker Andy Little, who was out of contract, has agreed a new deal and Rangers remain in talks with ex-Kilmarnock playmaker Dean Shiels. McCoist last night opened talks with Neil Alexander over a new deal as Allan McGregor completed his move to Besiktas on a two-year contract. Alexander will now go into the new season as the Ibrox No 1 after McGregor refused to switch his contract to the Ibrox newco. Alexander, 34, still has one year left on his current contract but has been offered another three years – if he agrees to take a cut on his current five-figure weekly wage packet. The keeper, who has three Scotland caps, has played in several high-profile games in his four years at Ibrox and McCoist has no concerns over going with him to get the club back up through the leagues. Rangers chief executive Charles Green will continue to fight for compensation for McGregor and the other first team players he claims have breached their contracts in refusing to transfer to the newco. Scotland keeper McGregor was reluctant to move to Turkey but was left with few options. Besiktas, who have also signed French international defender Julien Escude, are banned from Europe for a season, but McGregor said: “I am excited to be here. Besiktas is a big club and I can’t wait to get started.” McGregor will get an increase on the £20,000-a-week he was on at Ibrox but he is aware of the problems his former Rangers team-mates Kris Boyd and Kenny Miller encountered in Turkey. Ibrox youngster Rhys McCabe has agreed a move to Championship new boys Sheffield Wednesday, who may have to pay compensation because of the player’s age. Wednesday are keen to get an agreement sorted and are even prepared to offer former Scotland Under-21 defender Mark Reynolds in exchange. http://www.scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/posts/view/335520/Rangers-deal-almost-done

Scott Burns @ Express #Rangers expected to have their sfa membership rubber-stamped tomoro. Significant progress made with spl today. #rangers have now done deals with Ian black and Andy little and they will be registered asap #rangers are also in talks about a new deal with Neil Alexander #rfc

Rangers: Brechin eager for Ramsdens Cup tie to go ahead Brechin City manager Jim Weir and assistant Kevin McGowne are eager for Sunday's proposed Ramsdens Cup tie with Rangers to go ahead. The relaunched Rangers are yet to agree a deal to takeover the old club's Scottish FA membership , which is needed to play in cup and league games. "It's absolutely astonishing we still don't have decision on it," said Weir. And McGowne added: "If this game doesn't go ahead I just worry for the game in Scotland." Continue reading the main story “If this game doesn't go ahead, it would be a massive blow to Brechin City” Jim Weir Brechin City manager A five-way agreement between both old and new Rangers, the SFA, Scottish Premier League and Scottish Football League are required for the transfer of membership to be finalised. But, issues pertaining to media rights and the SPL's investigation into how the old Rangers paid players in the previous decade have held up the process. Weir's side were originally drawn against Dundee in the first round but, after Dundee replaced the old Rangers in the SPL, Rangers were slated as Brechin's opponents at Glebe Park and the match was moved from Saturday to Sunday for live coverage on BBC ALBA. Weir said: "If this game didn't go ahead, where do we go from here? "We were already preparing for what would've been a big game, a local derby against Dundee. "If this game doesn't go ahead and we're denied the game [against Rangers] and obviously denied the Dundee game, it would be a massive blow to Brechin City. "All the preparations are in place, they're working hard to make sure the game goes ahead. Rangers crisis explained Rangers went into administration owing up to £134m to unsecured creditors and will eventually be liquidated As a result its registrations with the Scottish FA and Scottish Premier League were terminated Charles Green led a consortium which bought Rangers' assets for £5.5m The former Sheffield United chief executive is reforming Rangers as a new company But the 'newco' did not get the required votes for re-admittance to the SPL Instead, the new Rangers are due to start life in Division Three "We've printed over 3,500 programmes, so it's a cost to the club. There's obviously the extra policing. "The groundsman's working away hard, they're painting everywhere to make sure everything's up to speed and they want to make it a real welcome for the new Rangers coming and the live cameras makes it a bit special as well. "Hopefully the day goes ahead." McGowne feels it's important for the Scottish game that the Rangers membership issues is settled and Sunday's match goes ahead as planned. "I think the [scottish] game's in a bit of a mess to be perfectly honest," said the former St Mirren defender. "We've had enough kicks in the backside this season, or the last six months. "It's great for a wee town like Brechin to play a team like Glasgow Rangers. It would be fantastic for them." http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/19008419 26 July 2012 Last updated at 23:46

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By Colin Armstrong It seems, in these unprecedented times, that there is literally no escaping the trauma of the current phase in Rangersâ?? history. Even an innocent activity like popping into WH Smith to buy my weekly copy of the NME brought yet another reminder of our current predicament. Whilst picking up my weekly dose of whatâ??s hot and whatâ??s not in Music Land, I stopped to browse the football mags and I noticed the latest edition of Celtic View. It stands alone now, with no Blue competitor alongside it. Rangers Monthly ceased publication at the beginning of the administration process, and there is still no word as to whether a club trap-doored into Division 3 has a requirement for a publication of any kind. But this wasn't the publication I was mourning that day; it was its elder brother: Rangers News. Rangers News ceased publishing the previous season. The reason cited for its demise was that there had been a huge change in the market and there was no need for a weekly publication. This is true; the onset of the internet and 24 hour news channels has changed the landscape for good. Yet Celtic View seems to have survived the demise of the print media market, while Rangers News didn't. The question we need to ask is why? My memories of Rangers News growing up was that it was another way to support the club, and most Rangers supporters I knew indulged in it to some extent. Even if it meant not actually reading it cover-to-cover, they bought it to show support for the club. But all that changed, and now it is another thing that has been permanently lost. I think exploring the demise of Rangers News can reveal, not only a change in the way we consume information, but yet more evidence of a disconnection between the club and its supporters in the last 20 years. To back up my point you only have to look at the differences between Celtic View and Rangers News. Whatever you want to say about Celtic View, you canâ??t deny that it has connected with the supporters of Celtic better than Rangers News did with us. Celtic View is unshakable in its defence of Celtic. It promotes everything about the club in a positive manner, and it embraces the clubs history, culture and its place in Scottish society. It is also far from afraid at having a pop at us, whether it is barbed or outright. The edition I stumbled across is a prime example. The magazineâ??s features were a celebration of 50 years in Europe (weâ??re out of Europe for at least three years), a celebration of 125 years of Celtic (including graphics featuring an unbroken timeline) and a feature on clubs Celtic have played that â??no longer existâ?. Nice! Celtic View has also, for some time, refused to use the term â??Old Firmâ?, preferring to call games against Rangers as Glasgow Derbies. Why? Well â??Old Firmâ? suggests some kind of relationship â?? and they donâ??t want that. During last seasons â??heatedâ? Old Firm games Celitc View did not let its readership down on any front. It was openly critical of Rangers in the aftermath of these games and even dared to have a front page of Scott Brown doing the â??Broonieâ? in front of El Hadji Diouf under the headline â??Welcome to Scotlandâ?. When you compare this to what Rangers News was providing for a number of years, itâ??s not even a competition. It was a rarity for it to explore the history of the club in any great meaning or depth, and a non-starter for it even hint about things like Protestantism, Unionism or Monarchism â?? these topics weâ??re strictly off limits. When issues surrounding supporter behaviour arose Rangers News adopted the age old habit of the club and decided silence is golden. Rather than defend its supporters â?? or criticise when needs be â?? it chose to remain neutral and inform us how Mikel Arteta was settling into life in Glasgow. Not that these are not important stories, you understand, but I always felt there was a moral obligation to deal with the more pressing issues as and when they arose. Avoiding them on the pages of its official publication reflected poorly on the club. They had a PR tool that most would kill for, and failed to maximise its potential. If Rangers News was to be taken as a barometer of the club, then it appeared to be slightly embarrassed by its culture, heritage and past. As a result of that stance, the fans stopped buying what had practically become a glossy catalogue of what the retail department had on offer - buy a brick, buy a season ticket, home shirts are now half-price â?? and it slumped into a slow death. Now Iâ??m definitely not having a pop at the Rangers media staff here. Lindsay Herron and his team are a dedicated bunch, and all of them are committed to representing the club in a positive manner. My point is that they have been hindered somewhat by the clubsâ?? hierarchy and its wish to avoid â??controversyâ?. Yet, when you look at the issues and topics covered on The Rangers Standard â?? some of which have been by some serious academics and behemoths from the world of journalism â?? it becomes apparent that topics like Protestantism, Unionism, Monarchism and Rangersâ?? place in modern Scottish society can be discussed and debated in an adult manner. If the club was savvy enough it could have made Rangers News a far richer read than it was, and a positive symbol and PR tool of the club. Because of the failings of the club to realise the magazineâ??s true potential, itâ??s now a thing of the past, which genuinely saddens me. My own history with it is a long one. From about the age of eleven I had it ordered weekly at my newsagent â?? that and Roy of the Rovers. As I grew older the latter became a thing of the past, the former, however, remained as a weekly necessity. I was then fortunate enough to join its ranks for two years as a columnist, and it saddens me that I wonâ??t be able to show my kids a living, breathing publication when I boast to them that their dad â??wrote for The Rangersâ?. Instead Iâ??ll have to go to the loft and pull out my vast collection â?? including each one I featured in â?? to show them their old manâ??s proud achievement. For some it wasnâ??t that big a deal when Rangers News died, but I would argue that the apathy for a publication that was 40 years old shows how tarnished the relationship between the club and supporters had become. Rangers News, like that other grand institution of Rangers past, The Rangers Pools, had become almost insignificant in the latter Murray years as the club limped towards its current predicament â?? a lingering reminder of how great the club once was. But the current owners have a clean slate and have the chance to right some of the wrongs of the Murray years. They could do worse than to try and tap into what once made Rangers News an institution in its own right. Colin Armstrong is a former columnist of the Rangers News and matchday programme. He contributed to the book Ten Days that Shook Rangers and has written extensively on the subject of Rangers in other publications including When Saturday Comes. http://www.therangersstandard.co.uk/index.php/articles/fan-culture/146-no-news-is-bad-news

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Grant Russell ‏@STVGrant Loads asking about Rangers' removal from SFL fixtures. Dundee appeared on SPL today. Appears to be DataCo issue. Asked lges for confirmation Expand Reply Retweet Favorite 7m John DC Gow ‏@JohnDCGow @STVGrant I don't think it's removal. I've looked numerous times and have never saw Rangers mentioned. Expand Reply Retweet Favorite 7m Grant Russell ‏@STVGrant @JohnDCGow They were definitely there previously.

Manager Steve Lomas was proud of St Johnstone's performance in the draw with Eskisehirspor, despite the result meaning the Perth side's European exit. The 1-1 stalemate at McDiarmid Park completed a 3-1 aggregate win for the Turkish side in the Europa League second qualifying round. "I thought they were magnificent," Lomas told BBC Scotland. "It was always going to be key if they got the away goal, the tie was effectively over." Continue reading the main story â??We've got nothing to be ashamed ofâ? Gregory Tade St Johnstone Gregory Tade headed St Johnstone ahead 10 minutes before half-time and Nigel Hasselbaink had an effort saved by Eskisehirspor goalkeeper Ruud Boffin before Veysel Sari levelled in the second half. Boffin also denied Liam Craig as the Scottish Premier League side were denied a home leg victory. "When you get your chances, you've got to take them," said Lomas. "Nigel Hasselbaink's [chance] to make it 2-0 is the key moment. They were looking edgy. "I'm very disappointed at the manner of their goal from our set piece but that's football. Liam's corner lofted into the goalkeeper's arms and they break from our set piece. We've got to learn from that. "They kept going, they had a couple more chances when we could've won the game. "I thought they showed against a very good Turkish team that we're an honest, hard-working and good set of footballers." Tade was also buoyed by the performance and expects his partnership with Hasselbaink to "dazzle people this year". "We'll do what people don't expect of us and we've got goals in us," said the Frenchman. "It's going to be a great season, I can feel it. I'm excited for this season. "We said before the game [against Eskisehirspor] if we managed to score first we were still in the tie and would have a great chance but unfortunately it wasn't meant to be. "They were skaky, they were there for the taking. We had two great chances. "We were unlucky, at least we created good chances against a big club with a bigger budget than us so we've got nothing to be ashamed of." http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/19005189

SFA's In-house Lawyer - Heather-Anne Barton Heather Anne Barton Director Summary Heather Anne Barton has 9 company director or secretary appointments. Short name - Heather Barton Director ID : 906964132 Year of Birth: 1967 Company Summary Company Name Company Status THE SCOTTISH FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION MUSEUM TRUST Active HAMPDEN PARK LIMITED Active THE CELTIC FOOTBALL AND ATHLETIC COMPANY LIMITED Active (Company Secretary Resigned 31/12/1999) CELTIC PLC Active (Company Secretary Resigned 31/12/1999) CELTIC F.C. DEVELOPMENT FUND LIMITED Active (Company Secretary Resigned 31/12/1999) CELTIC DEVELOPMENT POOLS LIMITED Active (Company Secretary Resigned 31/12/1999) GLASGOW EASTERN DEVELOPMENTS LIMITED Active (Company Secretary Resigned 31/12/1999) PROTECTEVENT LIMITED Active (Company Secretary Resigned 31/12/1999) SCOTBALL TRAVEL AND LEISURE LIMITED Dissolved http://company-director-check.co.uk/director/906964132

THE SPL and Rangers were last night urged to sort out the remaining differences that are preventing the team from kicking a bill. The stumbling block to the club being granted an SFA licence now lies with the SPL as the row over broadcasting rights and EBTs rumbles on. Ally McCoistâ??s men are due to play their first competitive match â?? a Ramsdens Cup tie at Brechin â?? on Sunday. But that is in real jeopardy unless a resolution can be found. Andy Kerr, president of the Rangers Supporters Assembly, said: â??We have no time left and I canâ??t urge everyone strongly enough to resolve whatever issues remain. Sort it out. â??This is serious. At what point do we have to call off the game at Brechin? â??If that was to happen it would be a massive blow to Rangers, who just want to get back playing football again, as well as them. ì This is serious. At what point do we have to call off the game at Brechin? î Andy Kerr, president of the Rangers Supporters Assembly â??Brechin have catering, stewarding, policing and all manner of things to sort out in just 72 hours. Itâ??s simply not fair on them. â??If it all goes pear-shaped theyâ??re clearly set to miss out on a considerable sum of much-needed money. â??There really shouldnâ??t be any issues remaining in this protracted saga so late in the game. â??Itâ??s a nonsense and, to be honest, this latest farce simply adds to the negative perception of Scottish football from people elsewhere. SEARCH FOOTBALL for: â??Itâ??s bad enough for me that Rangers is being affected but I feel for others in all this as well.â? Kerr is baffled that the membership saga has not been resolved, with Rangers and SPL chief executive Neil Doncaster still at loggerheads. â??Itâ??s hugely frustrating for everyone,â? said Kerr. â??We have fans planning to go to Brechin by ferry, rail, bus and car and no one can be sure of making arrangements. The whole thing is almost farcical. Itâ??s time â?? beyond time â?? to give us a yes or no.â? Last night sources at Hampden indicated that talks to settle the issue were continuing steadily. However, despite there being â??broad agreementâ? on most matters, nothing had actually been concluded and some topics still had to be settled. With Rangers currently banned from playing friendlies, the squad took part in three, 30-minute games on the new pitch at Ibrox yesterday. The matches involved sides consisting of first team and youth players as well as trialists Ian Black and Craig Beattie. http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/335312/This-cannot-continue

Wherever,whenever I sleep tonight I just want to wake up and be excited about Rangers games being discussed

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Ronnie Esplin ‏@RonnieEsplin Noises are the SPL wont back down on dual contract investigation. Looks like #Rangers will have to if they want SFA membership. Expand Reply Retweet Favorite

Allan McGregor has passed his medical with Besiktas and is expected to sign a two-year deal later on Thursday. The former Rangers goalkeeper flew to Istanbul on Wednesday. He is expected to be unveiled by the Super Lig side at a news conference on Friday. "The player is undergoing a medical on Thursday," the head of Besiktas' football committee, Tamer Kiran, told STV. "He is signing a two year deal. "I spent 45 minutes to an hour with Allan last night. He is a very good professional, very fit and experienced. We believe he will deliver our team's objectives." It is believed McGregor has mulled over the move for over two weeks, having originally agreed terms to move to Turkey as revealed by STV on July 10. Besiktas will now apply to the Turkish FA for an International Transfer Certificate for the transfer to go through. They are likely to have problems gaining international clearance, however, as Charles Green believes his new Rangers company are due a transfer fee. McGregor was one of nine players who refused to transfer their contracts to Sevco Scotland Limited, exercising his right under TUPE regulations to terminate his deal. FIFA have already issued temporary ITCs for a number of his former team-mates, meaning the keeper could be freed up to play pre-season and competitive games until the dispute is settled. The goalkeeper, who has 20 international caps and is Scotland's number one, had been a Rangers player since 1998, making over 200 appearances for the Ibrox side and winning three league titles and eight cups. Speaking in the Turkish press, Kiran also revealed his club had failed in a move for Sone Aluko, who has since joined Hull. "We also wanted Sone to sign for Besiktas," he said. "But he did not want to come to Turkey." http://sport.stv.tv/football/clubs/rangers/112508-former-rangers-goalkeeper-allan-mcgregor-undergoes-besiktas-medical/

IT is hard to understand why Charles Green has been so dismissive of Brian Kennedy and his offer to buy into Rangers. After all, Charles Green has made it clear he is willing to accept investors and claimed he had lured another one last week when he announced football agent Craig Mather had paid £1M for a 10 per cent stake. And we all know that while Charles Green is clearly awash with lies and bullshit, one thing he is not awash with is cash. Making it hard to fathom why, if he was so keen to get his grubby paws on Craig Mather’s £1M for a ten cent holding, he has been so disdainful of Brian Kennedy’s £5.6M money-up-front bid for 51per cent of Rangers Charles Green’s attitude must be puzzling for Rangers supporters. They do not trust Charles Green and once again he is acting in a manner which confirms their lack of trust as good, sound, sane and sensible judgment. But here’s a thing. Charles Green does not have a stake in Rangers. He does not own ten per cent of Sevco. His role is as chief executive officer. Charles Green is merely the hired hand. Therefore, for all of his bluster, for all of his posturing, for all of his bullshit, for all of the lies which trip off his tongue, Charles Green is not calling the shots as far as Brian Kennedy’s bid is concerned. Not legally! That is a matter for, among others, the two men on the Sevco board of directors who represent the interests of the main investors, the faceless men who cower behind the shield of their Blue Pitch Holdings bolt hole. Those two directors are Imram Ahmad and Brian Stockbridge from the Manchester based investment bank, Zeus Capital. And it was to Zeus Capital that Brian Kennedy sent his formal offer. It was to Zeus Capital that Brian Kennedy sent the details of his bid document. That makes everything nice and legal. For it is Zeus Capital, in the shape of the two of its big guns who sit on the Sevco Board, Imram Ahmad and Brian Stockbridge, who now have a legal duty to perform. One they must be seen to fulfill. That legal duty is to circulate Brian Kennedy’s offer document to the faceless men who hide behind the Blue Pitch Holdings collective, plus new investor, Craig Mather and all the others who Charles Green claims have invested in Sevco. It is these people, whether anonymous or not, who must make up their minds whether or not they wish to allow another investor to join them. To join them by taking the controlling interest which would allow Brian Kennedy to take the lead in sorting out the mess Charles Green has created and to take the lead in protecting whatever investment Blue Pitch Holdings and the others have made. Right now, with a 23 per cent stake, Blue Pitch Holdings hold the whip hand. That percentage allows them to dictate the make up of the Rangers Board. So what Blue Pitch Holdings have to decide is whether they are willing to give up that right to a more substantial figure, to a much bigger investor, in order to protect their investment, or whether having that complete control of the Rangers Board is so important to their plans, they are willing to lose their investment to retain their control. Which begs the question about what those plans could be if Blue Pitch Holdings would be willing to make a £2.3M sacrifice to bring those plans to fruition? It’s a safe bet if they are willing to write off £2.3M, the Blue Pitch Holdings’ plans for Rangers will not be good news for Rangers supporters. But there are other investors, individuals, the latest being Craig Mather, who have also to be consulted as to what view they take about Brian Kennedy’s £5.6M offer to dig them out of a hole. Investors who may not trust Imram Ahmad and Brian Stockbridge to offer advice which would be to their benefit. After all, the Zeus Capital two are only there to do the Blue Pitch Holdings’ dirty work. Which is where Malcolm Murray must come in. For he was appointed as chairman to, in his own words, ensure there was good, legal and clearly seen corporate governance. Therefore it is both the moral and legal duty of chairman Malcolm Murray to demand that Imram Ahmad and Brian Stockbridge from Zeus Capital give him copies of Brian Kennedy’s £5.6M offer document in order that he circulate it to all the other Sevco investors. Then, and only then, will the matter of Brian Kennedy’s £5.6M offer for 51per cent of Sevco, be able to be legally decided. For it is too important a matter for those investors to leave to hired hand Charles Green and Blue Pitch Holdings stooges Imram Ahmad and Brian Stockbridge.

Lifted from FF: This came from Dave Swanton on Twitter justnow, BK's pr man... BK re his offer to buy 51% of Rangers..... The Offer on the table is to purchase 51%, with an option to purchase the remaining 49%, opened up to supporters and other honourable trustworthy Rangers Men. The reason for control is to give the club much needed leadership and direction to get it out the mess its in. When its is finally financially sound, the 51% will be sold to other such supporters, Rangers Men etc. AT NO PROFIT.

The stripping of titles should never be allowed to happen,if this is the reason we are not getting our license then I would assume Rangers would be left with no other option but to take the SPL to court, we cannot accept any more sanctions,enough is enough.

The SFA & SFL are not looking to strip any cups we won,fairly,so just why is it the SPL want to strip titles?,Liewell & the BHEASTS that's why,hold firm on this CG,the SPL are fecked without the Rangers and sky are insisting Rangers are part of the TV deal.

BRECHIN chairman Ken Ferguson realised just how momentous his side’s showdown with Rangers is when the Wall Street Journal turned up at Glebe Park. Ferguson was gobsmacked when the famous broadsheet, America’s biggest-selling newspaper, asked for an interview in the build-up to Sunday’s Ramsdens Cup first-round clash. The match will be newco Rangers’ first competitive action since being ordered to start life in the Third Division in the wake of the Ibrox financial crisis. And Ferguson admits it hit home that interest in the fixture had gone global when his Second Division side attracted the world’s media. He said: “I never thought I’d see the day the Wall Street Journal came to Brechin. That shows how much interest this tie has generated. The guy from the Wall Street Journal was happy to come all the way up from London and he brought a different perspective than normal. “This obviously isn’t any normal cup-tie. He was wanting to know more about the impact of the Rangers situation and the effect it might have on the smaller clubs like ourselves. “It’s another indication of just how much this Rangers story has caught everyone’s attention.” Brechin are bracing themselves for a 4100 capacity crowd at the televised tie and Ferguson rates it as the Angus club’s biggest occasion for decades. He added: “I would have to say this is our biggest game in recent years. “In the older days before the stands were built we had bigger crowds at certain fixtures. “But in the modern era this tops the lot even though it’s still only the first round. To have a capacity crowd and to welcome newco Rangers means history will be made at Glebe Park on Sunday. “It’s a brilliant start to the season and it’s momentous for various reasons. “To kick off the new season at home to Rangers in the Ramsdens Cup is the stuff of dreams. “We had been planning for Dundee to come here which would have brought a good crowd until circumstances obviously changed. But we’re relishing the prospect of facing Rangers.” http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/football/sfl/2012/07/26/brechin-chief-ken-ferguson-i-knew-rangers-were-big-news-when-wall-street-journal-arrived-at-glebe-park-86908-23912851/