Originally Posted by BigDaveX:
“Four titles, four Scottish Cups, and five League Cups. Though you might want to include the trophies they won when Dick Advocaat was in charge as well, since IIRC it was the absurd amounts of money they spent under him that drove them into using EBTs.
This ruling shouldn't actually affect the club, since the current incarnation can't be held liable for pre-2012 debts and the powers that be have already ruled they won't have any titles expunged, but I imagine a lot of people who worked under Murray's regime are going to be sweating now.”
Are the players liable to pay tax now or not?
I think all eyes are on the SFA. Those trophies won need to be looked at. They were no doubt hoping this went the other way.
“Furthermore, so far as the footballers are concerned, at least, it seems to us that if bonuses had not been paid they might well have taken their services elsewhere”
A damning quote.
I just don’t understand how the previous ruling from Ninno Smith came about when he said "Rangers FC did not gain any unfair competitive advantage from the contraventions of the SPL Rules in failing to make proper disclosure of the side-letter arrangements"
Exactly how he came to that conclusion I do not know.
I think I will listen to SSB tonight just for the laughs.