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An informed contribution from Richard as always.

 

Spiers attempts, as usual, to try and play devil's advocate and paint himself as on Rangers side but is happy to say they cheated and understands why some want honours stripped - although disingenuously saying he doesn't want that. OK then...

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Where does Spiers get the 25m from? From what I've read the financial "benefit" seems to be less than half that for the players. At least he's not continuing to deliberately pull the wool over the public's eyes by implying it's 46.5m, like many so called journalists.

 

As usual, I found the contribution from former Rangers players (McCall) very weak to start with and just based on honour and winning on the pitch, which kind of misses the point, but then he chimed in later with the "legality" argument. Good on him.

 

O'Dea is just a fud, and like most Celtic minded seem to have totally missed it that Celtic used at least one EBT too - they continue to tacitly admit they believed it was cheating and they deliberately and knowingly did it anyway. The fact it wasn't cheating doesn't take away their open intention to cheat.

 

Spiers does not understand tax laws but has been in contact with Jo the tax guy, and so might start toning it down soon. The main point from Jo is that Rangers broke no rules - you can't "break" tax laws as long as you submit a true return. All it means is that, if you get it wrong, your tax liabilities are higher - as may be the case. If Rangers finally lose the case then it's just a tax bill that becomes due, and until the case is complete, that bill is not substantiated. Where is the cheating?

 

Spiers was about as bad a propagandist as you can get, trying to bring Lance Armstrong into it and so on, which is just totally different - and more akin to Celtic's behaviour. He also said that you'd have to be an idiot or something to argue the EBTs were illegal and then kept implying they were illegal...

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Where does Spiers get the 25m from? From what I've read the financial "benefit" seems to be less than half that for the players. At least he's not continuing to deliberately pull the wool over the public's eyes by implying it's 46.5m, like many so called journalists.

 

As usual, I found the contribution from former Rangers players (McCall) very weak to start with and just based on honour and winning on the pitch, which kind of misses the point, but then he chimed in later with the "legality" argument. Good on him.

 

O'Dea is just a fud, and like most Celtic minded seem to have totally missed it that Celtic used at least one EBT too - they continue to tacitly admit they believed it was cheating and they deliberately and knowingly did it anyway. The fact it wasn't cheating doesn't take away their open intention to cheat.

 

Spiers does not understand tax laws but has been in contact with Jo the tax guy, and so might start toning it down soon. The main point from Jo is that Rangers broke no rules - you can't "break" tax laws as long as you submit a true return. All it means is that, if you get it wrong, your tax liabilities are higher - as may be the case. If Rangers finally lose the case then it's just a tax bill that becomes due, and until the case is complete, that bill is not substantiated. Where is the cheating?

 

Spiers was about as bad a propagandist as you can get, trying to bring Lance Armstrong into it and so on, which is just totally different - and more akin to Celtic's behaviour. He also said that you'd have to be an idiot or something to argue the EBTs were illegal and then kept implying they were illegal...

 

Way too much common sense in that post mate!

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