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Why don't the BHEASTS just play against their youth team?

Will their inevitable coming titles be tainted?,will they be won fair and square?,sporting integrity my arse,enjoy your hollow titles gained by cheating ya bigoted scum bag

Celtic manager Neil Lennon: Stripping Rangers of titles will be moral victory for those treated unfairly NEIL LENNON last night insisted Rangers should be stripped of titles if they were won by cheating. But the Celtic manager doesn’t want to receive medals as compensation for finishing runner-up in any illegally won race from his time as a player. Instead, Lenny wants Scottish football history to be rewritten and recognition given to clubs that played within the rules. The manager read Thursday’s Daily Record exclusive on the SPL’s move to strip Rangers of the titles won if they are proved to have signed players on illegal double contracts. Speaking in Germany, Lennon said: “If they are stripped of titles so be it. “It will be a moral victory for those who were treated unfairly. “It won’t change my life but it’s right to do it for historical reference. What went on in the past cost players new contracts and bonus money. It might have helped relegate some clubs and cost managers their jobs.” Lennon lost two cliffhanger SPL finishes to Rangers in 2003 and 2005. Lennon wants those titles to be removed from Rangers’ record – but he’s not looking for gongs. He said: “I don’t want any medals for years gone by. “I can’t get the feeling back of what it would have been like to win those titles and that’s why it won’t make a huge dent in my life if Rangers are stripped of trophies. “I don’t want a medal – I want to see rightful winners emerge and then we can close this chapter of the game’s history.” http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/2012/07/19/celtic-manager-neil-lennon-stripping-rangers-of-titles-will-be-moral-victory-for-those-treated-unfairly-86908-23910015/

It's time for the club,the supporters groups to nip this in the bud before it is too late!

I wish to fuck we could get away from this 'Old Firm'!

You would think the above is enough proof,if any is needed?,that there is a conflict of interest regarding the links between Rhegan,Doncaster,the BHEASTS and Nolan Partners,no?

STAGING full-scale Old Firm games in this season's Glasgow Cup will be discussed at a meeting of the Glasgow Football Association next week. The tournament has already been scheduled to continue as an under-17s event for the coming campaign but that has yet to be ratified by the Scottish Football Association. When the Glasgow FA holds a scheduled meeting next week, there will be talks on whether to seek a change to the competition in order to guarantee Celtic versus Rangers games at senior level in the coming months, assuming Rangers newco are granted SFA membership to play football at all. The SFA and representatives of Rangers newco held a second day of discussions over the membership application yesterday but have still to reach a resolution. The SFA want the newco club to accept sanctions relating to the oldco, and the governing body also wants more information on who is in the consortium fronted by Charles Green. Talks will continue today. Unless the clubs are drawn in the cup competitions, Celtic and Rangers newco are not scheduled to play each other until 2015 at the earliest, and only then if the newco gains three consecutive promotions through the Scottish Football League divisions. That could give the Glasgow FA a unique platform to stage the derby and potentially generate lucrative television rights to one or more derbies. "We have had the competition in different formats over the years, it is constantly under review," said John Taylor, secretary of the Glasgow FA. "The reason for going to under-19s and then under-17s level for the past few years was simply that it was harder for the Old Firm to get dates into their schedules. So we've had a commitment to promote youth football in the city instead and it's been a great tournament for the youth teams. The coaches are still enthusiastic about that." The Glasgow Cup has not been held as a genuine first-team event since the mid-1980s, notably when more than 40,000 watched the Old Firm final of 1986, which gave Graeme Souness his first trophy as Rangers' player-manager. Subsequently it began to slip way down the two clubs' priorities. Both Celtic and Rangers' representatives will have their say next week, though, and the absence of four league derbies each season â?? each of which guarantees a capacity crowd â?? could lead to a move to resurrect the Glasgow Cup as a senior event. Partick Thistle, Clyde and Queen's Park are the other Glasgow FA member clubs. Meanwhile, lawyers acting for Dunfermline Athletic have formally requested an explanation of the SPL's decision to hand Dundee the "Club 12" place vacated by Rangers. It is understood it may take up to a fortnight for a response to be forthcoming and chairman John Yorkston will pursue an explanation and potentially financial compensation, without attempting to block Dundee's promotion. "We need to get on with the league," said Yorkston. "There has been enough turmoil and we don't want to cause a delay to the season or it could all end in more farce. We have already been placed at a sporting disadvantage by the unnecessary wait we had to find out that Dundee were to be invited in. It may be that we pursue financial compensation instead." http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/football/glasgow-cup-proposed-as-vehicle-for-old-firm-fixture.18188401 The SFA trying to milk the cash cow again?,I hope Rangers tell them to get tae fuck

GIOVANNI DI STEFANO ‏@DEVILSADVOKAT Blue Pitch Holdings are a company formed by clients of BDO Stoy Hayward whose aims are to make short term investments and acquire assets GIOVANNI DI STEFANO ‏@DEVILSADVOKAT At undervalue then to sell. BPH also have on board members of BDO Stoy Hayward who are insolvency practitioners and have information GIOVANNI DI STEFANO ‏@DEVILSADVOKAT Regarding companies that are going down.. They then identify those and use their friends to invest .. D&P do similar scheme GIOVANNI DI STEFANO ‏@DEVILSADVOKAT So it would appear that the majority shareholder is not in it for the long term but provable loaned some money on return for real security GIOVANNI DI STEFANO ‏@DEVILSADVOKAT What a tangled web... But they made one mistake in trying to hide themselves just one teeny weeny but enough for my wee team to find out GIOVANNI DI STEFANO ‏@DEVILSADVOKAT I will give more info Friday by video message and developments in the US...

The mHedia pressure on the SFA to strip titles from us is well under way with Hinkel then Boyd and now TLB,brace yourselves! It's time for the RST to make a statement

Hmmmm,another link, the plot thickens! Scottish Premier League - Chief Executive Search June 10 2009 Despite the considerable problems facing the Setanta-bankrolled Scottish Premier League, there is still a short-list of quality candidates, drawn mainly from English football by sports specialist headhunters Nolan Partners, for the vacant chief executiveâ??s post. http://www.nolanpartners.co.uk/news.html

TLB is all over the papers today saying we should be stripped of titles,this is what the BHEASTS want next

And then he is free to resign

Following the Scottish Football Leagueâ??s decision to admit Charles Greenâ??s newco Rangers to Division 3 for the forthcoming season, the Ibrox club have some clarity on their immediate future. However, a number of unresolved issues remain outstanding and there are still hurdles to be cleared before Ally McCoistâ??s team can play a competitive match. Weâ??ve looked at the questions remaining for Green, Rangers and the governing bodies in Scottish football. Isnâ??t it settled? Donâ??t Rangers start their season with the Ramsdenâ??s Cup match against Brechin on July 28? Not necessarily. Newco Rangers may have been granted membership of the Scottish Football League but that decision is pending a transfer of the Scottish Football Association membership from the old Rangers company to Greenâ??s. SFA membership is required for any club to play professional football in Scotland. Wait, why â??newcoâ? Rangers? Greenâ??s company that purchased the assets of the old Rangers company that is to be liquidated doesnâ??t hold an SFA membership. The old Rangers still does, until the membership is transferred or the company is liquidated. Until a transfer takes place, a distinction has to be made. Reports have claimed that there was a secret plan to present Green with punishments or sanctions for all the issues in return for SFA membership and a place in Division One. Is that likely to happen? STV has learned that the draft document was intended as a way to explain the worst case scenario across several issues as information after Green took over but was not an offer or negotiation. Each of the issues still has to be settled independently. Sources within the governing bodies have said that there is no â??offerâ? on the table for Rangers. The SFA is not dealing with the â??EBT issueâ? (explained later) and has no meeting scheduled for August 10. That date has been set aside for an SPL board meeting but discussion of off-contract payments is expected to take place before then. So why hasnâ??t the SFA membership transfer taken place yet? An application has been made to the SFA but has not yet been approved. The stumbling block is that by assuming the membership of the old Rangers company, newco Rangers would be accepting a continuation of the existing club. That means that the disciplinary process that saw the old club being found guilty of five breaches of SFA rules still has to be concluded. The SFA must also receive information from administrators Duff and Phelps that satisfies the requirement for Greenâ??s consortium to be considered as â??fit and properâ?. But the sanction that was imposed for those breaches, the signing embargo, was ruled as illegal by the Court of Session, wasnâ??t it? The SFAâ??s independent Appellate Tribunal imposed fines, censure and a 12 month registration embargo. When Rangers challenged that in court, it was ruled that the registration embargo was not a punishment available to the tribunal. So how do they get an SFA membership? Newco Rangers need a membership and so have three options. They could withdraw the transfer application and just apply for a new membership. That route is almost certain to fail though as the new company donâ??t have three years of accounts and wouldnâ??t satisfy the financial requirements. The club could ask that the Appellate Tribunal is reconvened and chooses an available punishment, as the Court of Session directed. The available punishments are: expulsion from the game and termination of membership, suspension of membership or suspension from the Scottish Cup. Alternatively, newco Rangers could decide to accept the original punishment, setting aside the Court of Session decision and agreeing to follow the football disciplinary process. Discussions are ongoing between Rangers and the SFA over a solution. Do the SFA still have to rule on the use of EBTs or â??dual contractsâ?? The contracts issue is being dealt with by the Scottish Premier League. The SFA would be the appeals body in the event that the SPL decision is disputed. Since they may have to appoint a panel to deal with that in the future, they will not investigate or start proceedings shortly. So what is happening with the EBT investigation? The First Tier Tax Tribunal has still to announce their judgement on whether Employee Benefit Trusts are tax avoidance or tax evasion. However, that isnâ??t actually relevant to the football bodies. The issue that faces the SPL is not whether EBTs were a tax dodge but whether Rangers players were made payments that were separate from the contract lodged with the SPL. If players were paid outside of the declared amounts in their contracts, then the old Rangers company would face sanctions from the SPL. What would those sanctions be? The SPL does specify punishments in its rules and regulations but clearly a fine or warning would be irrelevant to a club that is no longer a member of the league. The stripping of titles is an available punishment. After an investigation was launched it was confirmed that Rangers had a â??prima facieâ? case to answer but the process was put on hold until the league situation was concluded. The SPL has confirmed that they will now deal with the matter but no deadline or timescale has been set. Would teams who finished as runners-up in competitions be awarded Rangersâ?? titles? The respective rulebooks of the governing bodies do not provide specific guidance on this subject. There is a precedent for matches where rule-breaking has been proved to be annulled or a win awarded to the opposition team. The calculations and implications involved in applying this to every game seem unworkable and it is more likely that seasons would be taken as a whole. The SPL or an independent board can â??withdraw the award of a titleâ?, as per the rulebook of the league. It does not state whether the side finishing second would retrospectively be awarded the title, and the SPL has refused to confirm its processes. With the SPL refusing to comment on that scenario, it is still unclear if the league would expect prize money to be repaid or medals returned. The rules of the Scottish Cup do not specifically state a team can be stripped of any success in the competition. Rule 39 (Infringement of Rules) of the competition say any club found to have infringed the regulations can be â??liable to a fine, censure, suspension, order to replay a match, ejection from the competition and/or any such other sanction(s) as specified within these rules.â? It does not state anywhere in the Scottish Cup rules that a title or award can be withdrawn. In the case of the League Cup, organised by the SFL, the rules do not state a specific course of action in the case of its rules being infringed. As a guide, other specific rule breaches make reference to being deemed to be serious misconduct, which can result in the competition organiser imposing â??any other sanctions or conditions which the Board may think fit.â? http://sport.stv.tv/football/scottish-premier/111450-ibrox-crisis-the-penalties-that-charles-greens-rangers-could-face/

'Telly cash on hold - SPL clubs in sweat as payout delayed' ET HARD-up SPL clubs face a nerve-shredding 24-day wait to discover how much of a cash lifeline they will get from the wreckage of the TV deals. Top-flight clubs were due to receive around £650,000 each from Sky and ESPN on August 6 – two days after the new season kicks off. But, today, SPL chief executive Neil Doncaster admitted it could be August 10 before the cash breakdown is revealed in full. And that will leave many chairmen sweating over how to balance the books for almost another week. The news is yet another blow to top-flight clubs left reeling from the financial implications of Rangers' demotion to the Irn-Bru Third Division. And it comes amid fears that the new £80million five-year deal with the two broadcasters, which was due to be signed this summer, is under serious threat after the Ibrox newco was refused entry into the top flight. The existing contract – which still has a season to run – is worth £13m, but that could also be ripped up as the main clause in the deal stipulates the Old Firm are in the same division. Clubs were supposed to get the first tranche of money from that final-season deal – around £650,000 – on August 6. However, that is now under threat as Doncaster heads into crunch talks in London with the broadcasters over what cash – if any – will be offered in light of the Rangers decision. Most of the SPL's commercial deals have an exit or renegotiation clause should one of the Old Firm be absent, and Doncaster said: "As with any broadcaster or sponsor, they buy what they want. The Sport 5 overseas deal, like the Sky, ESPN and Clydesdale Bank deals, were negotiated before I arrived in 2009. "Having the Old Firm within what the SPL provided was clearly a key attraction for many of our partners. We will be working hard to discover what the commercial damage is. "In terms of financial consequences, it's important that we work intensively over the next few days and weeks, and we plan to get the clubs together again on August 10 and hopefully we can let them know what they can expect in terms of distributions for the season." Doncaster insisted SPL clubs remain committed to league reconstruction.

Why Ibrox legend Barry is backing Brown buyout bid BARRY FERGUSON today revealed his reasons for backing John Brown's Rangers For Change campaign. The former Ibrox skipper is the latest club legend to pledge his support to Brown's bid to wrestle control of the club away from chief executive Charles Green and place the club back in the hands of the supporters. Arthur Numan, Michael Mols, Jorg Albertz, Lorenzo Amoruso, Andy Goram and Brian Laudrup are all backing the consortium being fronted by Brown in an attempt to boost their bid to gain control of the crisis club. And Ferguson has admitted his hour-long conversation with the man who helped bring him through the youth ranks at Rangers was more than enough to convince him to throw his weight behind the bid. The Blackpool midfielder said: "I've known John Brown for 20 years since he brought me through the youth ranks at Rangers and he has been a major influence on my career. "He is a man I trust 100% and I've had a long conversation with him regarding the situation at the club and I have to say some of the things I have been told are very concerning. "I can't stress enough I have no hesitation in standing behind John Brown in everything he wants to do in the coming days. I know several other former players feel exactly the same as me. "As far as I am concerned, given the current predicament the club finds itself in, Rangers must be owned by its own supporters. The club has been put through far too much over the past year now to the stage where it is now in the Third Division. "John Brown is a Rangers man through and through and his only aim is to put the club back in the control of the Rangers fans. "I told him I was right behind him all the way on this – I think it is the least guys like myself can do." Brown, who coached Ferguson in the midfielder's early days at Ibrox, has been talking to the Blackpool star in recent days about his plans to buy out Sevco Scotland. Brown, a key member of Rangers' nine-in-a-row team in the 1990s, confirmed his talks with Ferguson. He said: "I have spoken to Barry and he has promised me that he is 100% behind me. He is out of the country just now on a pre-season training trip, but there is no doubting his commitment and his enthusiasm for my deal. "Because of his pre-season training and playing commitments it will be a couple of weeks or so before we will be able to sit down together and hammer out the details. "But I can assure everyone how excited Barry is to be given this opportunity to do something for the club he loves." Brown, who gave up his job as an Ibrox scout to lead takeover attempts after Green's company bought Rangers' assets for £5.5million, is putting in £40,000 of his own money to kick off the fans' fund. He said: "It is only right that as I have been out in the front of this, I should put my own money in too. I'm not a wealthy guy and £40,000 represents a huge commitment for me. "But if it helps Rangers supporters to see how serious this fans' buy out plan that I have is, then it will be money well spent. "Getting Barry on board at this early stage is a huge boost for our plans and I believe that he is just the first of many other well known names from Rangers' past who will be happy to back this commitment to the club's future. "I will be speaking to other famous names from Rangers' past in the next day or two and asking for their commitment and I'm confident that now they know Barry Ferguson is on board, they will all want to join the Rangers For Change movement." Brown's next move will be to set up a bank account which supporters can put their cash into to help the takeover plans. He added: "I have meetings with bankers and lawyers arranged for the next two days and believe that by the end of the week I will be able to release further details of how Rangers For Change will work." http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/news/w...t-bid.18177436

By Arnold Black When the SFA took action against Rangers in handing down their punishment on â??bringing the game into disreputeâ? they were highly critical of the actions or non-actions of Rangers directors. I think everyone accepts the charges against Craig Whyte are justified but it is worth considering the charges laid against the likes of Alastair Johnston, John Greig and John McClelland, especially in the aftermath of the decision by the SFL clubs to admit Rangers into Division 3 and the resultant panic it appears to be spreading in the minds of SPL chairmen and directors. Stewart Gilmour of St Mirren has predicted â??major redundanciesâ? at the club and at the time of the SPL vote there were comments about six or so clubs facing administration if Rangers were ejected from the SPL. Fans appeared to be happy to accept their club going into administration rather than have Rangers back in the SPL but fans do not have legal responsibilities to consider in their decision-making. It is therefore worth considering what the responsibilities of company directors are. The Companies Act 2006 contains seven general duties of directors: â?¢ a duty to exercise reasonable care, skill and diligence â?¢ a duty to promote the success of the company â?¢ a duty to act within their powers â?¢ a duty to exercise independent judgement â?¢ a duty to avoid conflicts of interest â?¢ a duty not to accept benefits from third parties â?¢ a duty to declare any interest in a proposed transaction or arrangement These statutory duties are owed by a director to the company and not to any individual shareholder. The duty to promote the success of the company is an interesting one. It is set out in section 172 of the Act and replaced the common law duty of loyalty, often phrased as the duty to act in good faith in the best interests of the company. The duty requires a director to act in the way he considers, in good faith, would be most likely to promote the success of the company for the benefit of the members as a collective body: not just the majority shareholders, or any particular shareholder or section of shareholders. In doing so the director must have regard (amongst other matters) to six specified factors: â?¢ the likely consequences of any decision in the long term â?¢ the interests of the companyâ??s employees â?¢ the need to foster the companyâ??s business relationships with suppliers, customers and others â?¢ the impact of the companyâ??s operations on the community and the environment â?¢ the desirability of the company maintaining a reputation for high standards of business conduct â?¢ the need to act fairly as between members of the company. The concept of promoting the success of the company, and the non-exhaustive list of factors, were the most controversial aspects of the Act. The Government has described section 172 as a radical departure in articulating the connection between what is good for a company and what is good for society at large. This is said to reflect a cultural change in the way that companies conduct their business â?? that it is now recognised that pursuing the interests of shareholders and embracing the wider responsibilities flagged in the list of factors are complementary purposes, not contradictory ones. The Government also claims that section 172 should resolve any confusion in the mind of directors as to what the interests of the company are; There is no excuse, for example, for thinking that acting in the interests of the companyâ??s members necessarily precludes acting in the interests of those who depend on the company, like its employees and its supply chain. Kilmarnock Chairman Michael Johnston, much-maligned by fans at the time, was the one SPL Chairman not to vote â??yesâ? in the SPL vote. He understood his legal responsibilities under Section 172, stating â??I elected to abstain in order to reflect the result of the consultation process and in recognition of a number of other factors, not least of which was Section 172 of the Companies Act concerning my fiduciary duty as a Director to act in the long term interests of The Kilmarnock Football Club Limited and to ensure its success as a business.â? In view of the doomsday scenario that many clubs are now predicting, they presumably took this into account before the SPL conducted its vote. As responsible directors, they would have sought to establish the impact on their clubs of various scenarios and weighed up the consequences. These consequences would have included the effect on employee jobs, the effect on the business suppliers, as well as the effect on the fans supporting the clubs. In the current climate, they will have considered the reaction of their lenders to Rangers disappearing from the SPL. After all, Rangers was not just a club suffering financial difficulties folding, Rangers was a club continuing and a decision had to be made to remove this â??cash cowâ? from the SPL. We are certain, of course, that the directors would have instructed their management staff, their finance staff, and their business advisers to produce the guidance and plans of future prosperity that would allow them to come to their decision with a clear conscience. Or, more likely, did they wing it and take a calculated risk that Rangers would only be out of the SPL for one season? The agenda for the SPL meeting following the SFL vote suggests the latter. As such, does sporting integrity and fan power continue to rule over legal responsibility? Do the directors now, given the time that has passed, have all the financial information at their fingertips? If the SFL vote is respected, as our First Minister Alex Salmond has said that it should be, will clubs be forced into administration or redundancies as many are suggesting? I would make it clear that is not something Rangers fans should wish to see â?? no club should want to see the loss of a club or employees losing their jobs. But if this is the outcome of the SPL decision, will the SFA step in and take action? Will the directors of these clubs be considered to be derelict in their duties and as a result be deemed responsible for â??bringing the game into disreputeâ?? And will the SFA be as critical of these directors as they were of Rangersâ?? directors who took action by resigning and by making their voices heard on the front pages of national newspapers? Arnold Black is a Chartered Accountant and long-time Rangers fan and season ticket holder. http://www.therangersstandard.co.uk/index.php/articles/current-affairs/141-full-circle-or-not-fit-and-proper-take-2

This has to be approved by the SFA,I think?

Not once has the SFA EVER tried to help it's biggest and most successful club through all of this,that alone tells you what a corrupt organisation it is

I would like to see the RST come out with a statement to leave the SFA in no doubt that if they come after our titles it will mean a legal battle

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/football/2012/06/26/podcast-rangers-newco-face-spl-wilderness-86908-23901091/

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. The draft plan was clearly designed by the football authorities to parachute Rangers into Division One of the SFL and protect Scottish football’s TV and marketing revenues. SFL chairmen voted overwhelmingly last Friday to place Rangers in Division Three, but the Record understands that does NOT mean the punishments in the secret plan will never be imposed. The SFA will decide on August 10 whether Rangers broke their rules by using EBTs and “dual contracts”, and the document sheds light on the football authorities’ thinking over possible penalties for the club. It remains a draft, and no agreement has been reached between Sevco and the authorities. But it appears Green’s firm were willing to accept some if not all of the draft – at least when the prospect of Division One football was on the table. And the scale of the penalties listed – before Rangers have even been convicted over EBTs – will horrify fans of the club. Many Rangers supporters will also believe the document undermines the SFA’s judicial process. rangers spl scottish cup Image 3 The killer section of the document states: “EBT Sanctions means (i) the withdrawal of Rangers FC, RFC and Sevco of the award and status of Champion Club (as defined in the SPL rules) of the Scottish Premier League for each and all of seasons 2002/3, 2004/5, 2008/9, 2009/10 and 2010/11: “(ii)The withdrawal from Rangers FC, RFC and Sevco of the award and status of winner of the Scottish Cup for each and all of seasons 2001/2, 2002/3, 2007/8, and 2008/9.” The document also contains an ultra-strict confidentiality agreement. It states: “Neither RFC nor Sevco may make any disclosure to a third party, press release or public announcement whatsoever about, concerning or relating to this agreement ... except with the express prior written consent of each of the SFA, the SPL and the SFL.” The loss of five league titles would cut Rangers’ total from 54 to 49 and strip them of their status as the most prolific league winners in world football. Northern Irish club Linfield, with 50 titles, would take over. Celtic finished second in all five of the SPL seasons listed. If the titles were stripped from Rangers and awarded to their Old Firm rivals, Celtic’s total number of championships would rise to 48. The runners-up in the four Scottish Cups listed were Celtic, Dundee, Queen of the South and Falkirk. The document is silent on the issue of whether the clubs would be named as winners in place of Rangers. The idea of stripping a club of nine trophies is unprecedented in modern football. Italian giants Juventus were relegated and stripped of two titles for match-fixing in 2006. They continue to dispute the decision. Another match-fixing scandal, in France, saw Marseille forfeit their 1993 league title. But they were allowed to keep the Champions League title they won in the same year. The draft document also insists that Rangers must drop their legal challenge against the SFA transfer embargo, imposed largely as a punishment for the failure to pay tax under Craig Whyte. The club went to the Court of Session and got the ban overturned. Judge Lord Glennie ruled that the association acted beyond their powers, and ordered them to reconsider. rangers spl scottish cup Image 1 The club enraged the SFA by going to law. The move also angered FIFA, who insist that clubs should not take their associations to court. Experts warned that the world governing body could impose bans on Scottish clubs or even the national team unless Rangers backtracked. The document says that as well as accepting the embargo, Rangers must pay the SFA’s £31,000 costs and the £160,000 fine imposed at the same time as the transfer ban. The draft deal goes on to state that the Rangers newco will take responsibility for all the football debts run up by the “oldco” – a long list of unpaid bills owed to clubs in Scotland and on the continent. The oldco went bust owing Hearts £800,000, Dunfermline £83,000, Dundee United £66,000, Celtic and Inverness Caley Thistle £40,000 each, and Aberdeen an undisclosed amount. Another £1.8million is owed to clubs in England and Europe, including £1million to Austrian side Rapid Vienna for striker Nikica Jelavic. Green has set off to meet officials from UEFA in a bid to settle the issue of the football debts. He accepts that the problem must be resolved before newco Rangers can be accepted as members of the SFA. But he wants to strike a deal to make it easier for Sevco – and the club – to shoulder the burden. He said: “There are certain old club debts to European clubs. It is about £3million, accumulated as part of the historical baggage. “These are oldco debts newco has got to face up to. “We want to be honourable. We are people who face up to responsibility. We don’t want them to be waived. We don’t expect them to be waived. “But we want some help in meeting these because we do want to get Rangers back to the top of the pile. “And when we do get back into Europe – whether it’s five or 10 years or 20 years – we want to walk back with our heads held high. “I would like the clubs and UEFA to recognise these are not my debts, and for them to work with us where we can come to some amicably agreeable settlement and move forward together as friends.” The SFA will consider Rangers’ application for membership next week. As part of that process, the club’s new chairman, Malcolm Murray, met officials from the governing body yesterday to give more information on the identities of Sevco’s investors. The SFA confirmed they had received information and requested more. They added that Rangers’ administrators, Duff & Phelps, had been carrying out “fit and proper person” checks on the proposed new directors of the club, alongside the SFA’s own investigations. The SFA said they were “in dialogue” with Rangers over the transfer embargo row. They added: “Now that the club’s status has been confirmed by the SPL and SFL, we will consider the award of transfer once Rangers FC satisfy the necessary criteria.” If newco Rangers are accepted as SFA members, they will start their new season away to Brechin City in the Ramsdens Cup at Glebe Park on July 28. 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/

I love it!,all the chairmen of the 3rd divison clubs are rubbing their hands with glee at the prospect of a severe cash input due to the Rangers,and all the chairmen of the diddy SPL clubs are shiting themselves

Lifted from FF Extract from the Peterhead version of the Evening Express Sorry if I have made any typos.....Heres an extract...... Peterhead chairman Rodger Morrison today outlined his plans to cash in on Rangers entry to the third division. The Blue toon is buzzing with excitement ahead of the new season following the news of Gers joining their tier. The Ibrox club kick off the league campaign in the Buchan town on August 11. And Balmoor chief Morrison revealed frozen-priced season ticket sales have been hitting the roof. He said : "Since it was decided Rangers were to be playing 3rd division football next season fans have been queuing to buy season ickets. I dont know the exact figure but the season ticket demand is high. Everybody is excited at the prospect of Rangers in the league.It's something that has never happened before." A bumper crowd is expected at Balmoor next month when Ally McCoists side battle with their fellow promotion hopefuls. Morrison said that the club had started arrangements for the match already, with temporary stands expected to fill the spaces behind each goal. He said the demand for the Rangers game next month will be similar to when we played Celtic, if not more. There are a lot of people wanting to get tickets.Rangers will obviously bring a large support up here. We already know they have a big following in Peterhead. Much of the talk surrounding Gers was down to the future of lucrative television deals. Scottish Premier League clubs are expecting their share of Sky and ESPN deals to be reduced with the absence of Rangers and the Old Firm glamour. Morrison revealed today he has already received bids for his club's opening match from major broadcasters, He said "We have already had inquiries and offers from broadcast companies who are wanting to show the Rangers game. I cant reveal the names but hope we can strike a deal soon' The phone hasnt stopped ringing with potential sponsors also wanting to be part of the big game.

That team could walk the 3rd division

You would think one of the mainstream journos would publish something like this?.