Three major exclusive interviews coming up soon on #c4news

[Crimson Dynamo 128]

Three major exclusive interviews coming up soon on #c4news examining Rangers FC financial disaster.

 

I hope it is not more hearsay and maybe this, that and the next thing

 

http://www.channel4.com/news/alex-thomson

Edited March 19, 2012 by Crimson Dynamo

[Guest Dutchy]

Looks like he's getting himself involved with his 23rd war, what with all his 'sources' being so anti-Rangers!

[Crimson Dynamo 128]

Indeed.... It is getting beyond a joke, with the sack him for that, strip rangers of this. Nobody truly knows what has been going at Ibrox and that is why it needs to be properly investigated instead of all the jumping to conclusions.

[GovanAllan 0]

Made by Rangers haters for Rangers haters.

[Frankie 8,150]

First 'exclusive' interview is with Hugh Adam.

Edited March 20, 2012 by Frankie

[Juancornetto 1]

He's been indoctrinated by the CCC no doubt, he obviously see's an angle in this and one that wouldn't damage his career, I wonder if he has done his own due diligence on those who seem to be advising him. One look at Paypal Phil's blogs would show you that he's a subversive and obsessive ego-maniac with an unhealthy obsession of Rangers and Rangers fans.

[Crimson Dynamo 128]

First 'exclusive' interview is with Hugh Adam.

 

Hoping these "exclusives" are not just more of the same of what we have have already been hearing lots of hot air with no real substance

[Crimson Dynamo 128]

http://twitter.com/#!/alextomo

 

EXCLUSIVE fmr RFC director says RFC directors weren't interested in directing. SFA/SPL not interested in governing.

 

EXCLUSIVE fmr RFC dir Hugh Adam say extra payments weren't notified to SFA/SPL

 

So is it cheating? I ask. "It is. It is." Says fmr RFC director Hugh Adam

 

EXCLUSIVE fmr Rangers director makes new claims on how RFC broke SFA rules on player eligibility

 

not really "exclusives" are they Hugh Adam has been saying this for weeks!

Edited March 20, 2012 by Crimson Dynamo

[chilledbear 16]

Can you have old exclusives?

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At 86 former Rangers director Hugh Adam may be hard of hearing, but hard of recollection and understanding he most definitely is not.

 

Meeting at his house just outside Glasgow for his first TV interview since the current Rangers implosion began, he is precise in what he wants to say. He’s made notes in preparation for our visit.

 

After some time on camera it becomes clear Mr Adam wants to go significantly further than in a couple of previous, ground breaking interviews with the Daily Mail.

 

He already told that paper that there were, double contracts to pay players under the so-called Employee Benefit Trusts (EBTs) introduced by Sir David Murray who lavishly expanded Rangers on borrowed money until its spectacular collapse and sale for £1.

 

Murray flatly denies double contracts, saying there were just discretionary payments.

 

But speaking to Channel 4 News Hugh Adam goes further.

 

He’s clear that these other payments to players were not declared to the football authoritiesthe Scottish FA (SFA) and Scottish Premier League (SPL): “No I ‘m quite sure they didn’t declare them. I’m quite sure. The SFA isn’t pure in all this you know either. If something was put in front of them they’d have to examine it. It’s not a standard business.”

 

The SFA says it followed the rule book and denies wrong doing (blog to follow).

 

Now until the SPL inquiry is complete we don’t know whether or not the payments were declared. If they weren’t every player Rangers fielded with out telling the SFA/SPL full details of their money, would be ineligible and Rangers have to forfeit the match 3 – 0 to the other side. A lot of silverware in Govan could end up being moved and re-engraved. But like I say, it is all an if at the moment, assuming the SPL can be trusted competently to investigate itself in effect, over all this.

 

Is it cheating, I ask: “It is. It is. But in football it’s standard practice. I mean it’s not serious cheating in that they were not putting money into their own pockets. The point is nobody really knew it was going on. You were a director and that was because you wanted to get a seat in the directors’ box.”

 

And he paints a bizarre picture of life at Ibrox across the past fifteen years or more. A club where few – if any – of the directors were, he says, interested in directing Rangers at all. Everyone more or less happy to leave things to Sir David Murray and hop along to Ibrox to enjoy the box and the hospitality and that was really the meaning of being a director at Ranger PLC and that was it, beginning, middle and end. On that Hugh Adam is quite open.

 

Of the EBT scheme itself he confirms again there were other payments made to players but nobody knew much and nobody asked.

 

All in all it paints a strangely autocratic picture of a football club that was for some time expanding, winning and living the football dream. Sir David Murray came, expanded the business, talked big then crashed and burned

 

And all the while everyone just seemed prepared to go along with the dream on borrowed time and a vary large amount of borrowed money.

 

From Alex Thomsons Blog. Nothing we haven't heard already!