Time to put the record straight please

[Max Rebo's Big Blue Nose 0]

I have noticed over the last few days (and weeks for that matter) there has been a lot misleading stuff in the media that is continually going unchallenged and is only muddying the waters IMO. I listened to two debates yesterday on the Rangers situation and one both accasions the presentators listened to views from opposing SPL fans concerning our punishment. Almost everyone of the views stated that we should be punished for what we've done over the last 15 years? Have I missed something? Have we been found guilty of anything other what that little snake Whyte was up to over the last year? The fact that these views were almost stated as fact was stagerring but the fact these falsehoods were not challenged by the actual journalists was even more bewildering. No wonder we're fooked

 

The only voice that I've heard make any sense yersterday was Daryl King (I think it was him...?). He was on Talk Sport outlining much of the above and went to say that rival fans are so keen to see Rangers punished that they are tripping over themselves and being very selective with the facts when assessing their opinions. He also went to say that Rangers (the club)and their fans could actually be seen the victims in all this as Whyte was just a wreckless individual. Been a while since I've heard a Scottish journalist stick up for us TBH. Anyone else hear it?

Edited June 27, 2012 by Max Rebo's Big Blue Nose

[Juancornetto 1]

It was Keith Jackson Reebs and he spoke very well, even to the point of talking about Rangers and the fans potential victims. It is astonishing how quickly and easily these "facts" have become common currency when discussing us...it reeks of timothy and his clandestine malice.

[Max Rebo's Big Blue Nose 0]

It was Keith Jackson Reebs and he spoke very well, even to the point of talking about Rangers and the fans potential victims. It is astonishing how quickly and easily these "facts" have become common currency when discussing us...it reeks of timothy and his clandestine malice.

 

Keith Jackson! Cheers JC. I agree. He spoke very well

[GovanAllan 0]

Witch hunt, lynchmob mentality Max, and the fact the so called media in this country seem to be fanning the flames makes it all the worse.

[ian1964 10,457]

Leggat - RANGERS NOT GUILTY IF WHYTE BUY-OUT WAS A FRAUD- Exclusive

 

Posted: 26 Jun 2012 12:49 AM PDT

THE news the Crown Office has ordered a Procurator Fiscal backed police probe into Craig Whyte’s takeover of Rangers, should stop the SFA and SPL in their tracks.

 

And lead to all the clubs who have been railroaded by spiteful bigots into turning on Rangers, to seek the very best legal advice possible.

 

Whether or not all of the above happens depends on the bravery and intelligence of chairmen at Aberdeen and all the other outfits who want to exile Rangers from the top flight.

 

And it also relies on the competence of those who hold the reins of power within the Scottish Football Association and the Scottish Premier League.

 

It may even make Peter Lawwell’s Hampden pal, SFA chief executive Stewart Regan, examine the sanity of waltzing off on holiday to Tuscany when all of this is breaking like a breached damn which is drowning Scottish football.

 

It may even prompt the SPL chief executive, Neil Doncaster, to give himself a boot up the backside, contact Regan, demand that he return to Hampden, gather all the clubs together and explain the new facts of life to them.

 

These brutal facts, now in the public domain, courtesy of the Crown Office, have been coming for weeks and the announcement from the Crown Office was no surprise to me.

 

Let me make some things clear about this investigation into allegations of fraud.

 

This is not an ordinary run-of-the-mill police probe. It is one which they have been ordered to undertake by the Crown Office.

 

Therefore the weight of evidence which Scotland’s most senior lawyers must have studied, clearly suggests the probability of criminality.

 

The investigation is also beyond what is normal, in that the Crown Office has instructed the Procurator Fiscal to join forces with the police to look into every nook and cranny of what went on when Craig Whyte paid David Murray a quid for Rangers in May 2011.

 

It is almost inconceivable that no charges will follow. With Craig Whyte the most likely to have the bracelets snapped on.

 

Should that happen and should Craig Whyte be convicted for perpetrating a fraud in order to gain control of Rangers, then all of the actions undertaken by Craig Whyte in the name of Rangers, from May last year until February 14th of this year, will have had nothing to do with Rangers.

 

The sporting integrity which all those clubs and their fans seek to protect, will not have been broken by Rangers.

 

It is Craig Whyte and Craig Whyte alone who will be guilty of having withheld PAYE from HMRC belonging to employees of a company which he did not own.

 

Therefore, Rangers will have owed HMRC nothing and there would have been no need to place them in administration. And without that period of administration, Rangers would not now be in the process of being liquidated.

 

And as sure as night follows day, that means there would be no NewCo. It is so logical it would be laughable were others not be able to grasp its logic.

 

The logic is, nothing that has happened since May 2011 would have happened.

 

Not if Craig Whyte had not bought Rangers.

 

Therefore, if Craig Whyte is found to have perpetrated a fraud in order to buy Rangers, then nothing which has happened to Rangers since May 2011 will have been the fault of Rangers.

 

One Rangers supporting pal, a man who holds a senior position inside the boardroom of one of Scotland’s most iconic companies, has long raged against the demands from the club’s enemies that Rangers should apologise.

 

His reasoning is simplicity itself. Why should Rangers apologise for the sins of a man who broke into the club, raped the club and then made off into the night?

 

He is right. Morally. And if Craig Whyte is found guilty of fraud he will also be right, legally.

 

And any evil, vindictive and bigoted attacks and vengeance visited on Rangers by other clubs, by the SPL and by Stewart Regan and Peter Lawwell's SFA could see those clubs, along with the SFA and SPL, mired deep in a legal and financial minefield.

 

Which could break those clubs, sink the SPL and send the Scottish Football Association of Peter Lawwell and Stewart Regan into a tailspin. Taking Celtic and the Scotland national team with it.

 

For, on Craig Whyte’s conviction for fraud, Rangers would then be able to seek recourse to the Court of Session for loss of income due to penalties imposed on the club by the SPL and the SFA on the say-so of clubs.

 

And all for offences committed in their name by a man who had no legal standing as far as the Rangers name was concerned.

 

Of course for the good fight to be fought and won, it will need someone of greater stature, deeper intelligence, and more commitment to the cause than snake oil salesman Charles Green and his cohort, money man, Micky McDonald.

 

Will someone step forward and take up the challenge?

 

The prize for any strong willed, intelligent and committed man is great. It is the long lasting and deep gratitude of every Rangers supporter throughout the world.

 

Who will step up and pay?

[der Berliner 3,290]

Well, it just has a) to be true and b) the relevant people actually caring. If it goes on at the same pace as it has been, the witch will be burned to ashes long before any verdict will be there.

[andy steel 0]

Still, an interesting read for all that.