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But according to Gers fans (and the Glasgow media) it's all HMRC's fault !!!! Great blog by Alex Thomson (C4 news and a mag) http://blogs.channel4.com/alex-thomsons-view/rangers-taxman-walk/1899 He's had loads of shit off the Glasgow media for sticking his nose in and asking the REAL awkward questions.

In fairness theyr'e nearly as bent as Rangers, two cheeks of the same arse tbh Celtic had EBT's set up the same as Rangers but coughed it pretty soon after they started using them and then paid up the tax etc. All brushed under the carpet of course. HMRC were after Rangers as they really pushed the boundaries way beyond anything else, but rumours up north reckon there's 6 English clubs in the sights as well who have used EBT's if some of them also have done the side letter thing........................... The big tax case result is the trigger/test case HMRC are waiting for, to go after them as well.

Someone did all the maths on an SPL team board, there'd have been multiple winners going back nearly 20 years. There was a report some weeks ago that Porto (I think) were going mental as Rangers beat them in the Uefa semi final with "ineligibles" in the team, were talking of suing through UEFA. For the EBT's see: http://www.bbc.co.uk...w-west-18148818

Nope Hearts Hibs Motherwell Aberdeen and Dundee Utd are in there somewhere as well. Murray is more culpable than Whyte tbh, Whyte's antics just pulled the trigger although he's going to be carrying the can. Hopefully HMRC go after Murray as well though. Souness had an EBT set up for £10K years after he left Rangers just before he bought a player (who's name I forget) for Blackburn for £6Mill !!! If memory serves from the BBC Panorama programe they did on BBC Scotland, Boumsong was paid circa 1/2 a mill via his EBT. Gordon Smith former head of the SFA had an EBT when he was a director of Rangers (as did current SFA or SFL chief I believe). You can probably see why other teams fans are so up in arms about "corruption" and OF favouritism, when you consider the SPL voting situation on top of all the nefarious goings on. Romanov's (Hearts owner) famous "the SPL is run by a mafia" rant which was laughed at and derided, a year or so ago, is actually being proven 100% spot on. They also cheated European teams, when they did occasionaly get into the group stages of the CL, ineligible players were bound to have featured in the playoff that got them there. Then the money they got from Europe went even further than it should have because of the EBT's. It absolutely stinks.

Basically it’s like this, rough example: If you pay a player £20,000 a week he pays 50% tax so his take is £10K a week Rangers offered £20K a week but paid £10K a week through his contract and £10K a week through an EBT (which is legal when an EBT is a loan with an expectation that it be paid back) the EBT is tax free so for the same £20K a week the player pays £5K tax so his take is £15K a week. The double contract is because some (the BBC identified loads but probably all had them) the EBT’s had “side letters” which stated the loan wouldn’t ever be needed to be repaid. Which makes it illegal and makes the EBTa second contract of employment and the income taxable. Basically because of the miss-use of EBT’s Rangers could offer the same salary as other clubs but maximised illegally the players take, therefore making them more attractive. Team “A” offers £20k a week or Ranger offer £20K a week, who you going to join ?? That’s what the big tax case is about. In terms of the football side: All contracts must be declared to the governing Association, (the side letters weren't declared) if there is a any contract in place that isn’t known at the association the player is ineligible to play, the penalty for which is forfeiture of any fixture as a 3-0 loss that the ineligible player plays in. We’re talking 75-ish players over the thick end of 20 years, in a cup final someone worked out all 11 players (that won) were ineligible. Paddock Lad – the names of possible title winners I stated is after the results are changed due to the ineligibility, not just promoting who finished second. (someone on a SPL board did the maths, I am quoting from memory though)

Bit of a fallacy that Ant. The OF get 80% of the TV money anyway for example, it only would take a couple of hundred more fans a game for each team to balance the loss of Rangers visits. That'd be easily achievable if teams actually had a chance (albeit for second place initially). SPL rules can only be changed by a vote of 11 - 1 and as the OF always vote in their own interest it's a closed shop. It's great chance for reform up there, maybe some steps backwards initially but to move forwards longer term. Everything up there is weighted by the OF for the OF. It needs to change. If they vote them back in, many teams own fans are going to desert in droves because they haven't just lived beyond their means (a'la Portsmouth) they've actually cheated, by the use of the EBT and double contracts, if proven (and it looks nailed on) all games involving inelligible players should be, according to the rules, made 3-0 losses. If that's applied in Rangers "glory years" Hearts, Hibs, Motherwell, Aberdeen and Dundee Utd (I believe) would all have won titles. As far as fans up there think, if the cheats prosper and the SPL/SFA/SFL and even their own clubs bend over backwards because they are worried about £££'s, really as a fan, what is the point. This is about money v sporting integrity.

Comparing modern day footballers to the likes of Battle of Britain pilots (as an example) SUPERB

Visited it twice when I've been in Krakow, second time took the kids (well they were in their 20's but after seeing it myself was something I wanted them to see), anyway after first time when me and the Mrs visited she was telling "the girls at work" about it and one of them said "Oh Auschwitz is that where they make the sausages" (whatever the F that means!!!!), two of the others confessed to "have never heard of it" !!! I despair at times.

According to Jehan de Waurin (who was at Agincourt - his brother and his father were killed fighting for the French, he himself later fought for the English !!) writting 20 years after the fact about Henry's speech before the battle: “…And further he told them and explained how the French were boasting that they would cut off three fingers of the right hand of all the archers that should be taken prisoners to the end that neither man nor horse should ever again be killed with their arrows. Such exhortations and many others, which cannot all be written, the King of England addressed to his men”. No mention of gestures in any of his writing. It took three fingers, not two, to draw a longbow. Draw weight's about 100lbs.

No NUFC players for England = Alles les Bleus Never want England to win if no NUFC involvement, just another London team. Spend most of the year despising the bassa's, just because they pull on a different shirt means nowt to me. I enjoy International football tournamants to watch but otherwise = meh ! Only England team I care for/follow is the cricket team.

Read it some time ago, Agincourt by Juliet Barker is an excellent read btw. BTW - The arrows cost the equivalent of £1.00 a pop in modern money, an absolute fortune. Harry pawned just about everything to fund his expedition.

Worst sort of scouse scratter, with or without facial damage

Really ?? Ref letting them get on with it, quite enjoying it tbh. Seems the grass is mighty long though, balls not exactly zipping around.

What about the £10 slip behind the "easy money" slip in the first photo ?? Did that win ?? That's £75 without supposition. BTW - The £25 slip is awfully crumpled up, did trap 6 really win ??

So that's £40 on the "easy money" double, plus £25 on a dog and one half of the "easy money" double, one would likely surmise there was another bet on the other half of the "easy money" double an allaround similar stake. That's £100 quid-ish (at least, I suspect) on one nights betting. You need help.

Significant acne under her makeup in HD

Been married 31 years this year, nee complaints. Well except for the fact I'd have been free years ago if I'd murdered some fucker

As ever, for the bookies

How do you feel after signing your new contract, Graham? And how did it come about? To be honest, it was quite a shock really. I got a phone call from Derek Llambias who asked if I was available to come and meet Mike (Ashley). We had a chat for three or four hours about everything on our side, the scouting side, and then I met Mike again the next day for a couple of hours. We spent a couple of days talking about our targets, which had been discussed previously with Alan (Pardew). Alan had identified the players we're after and for Mike, who's a busy man, it was a great opportunity for us to get together and talk about them. And when I got offered the contract, I signed there and then. We were just discussing players and suddenly, out of nothing, he told me what he was going to offer me. I like working for him so it didn't matter if it was one year or 20 years. I just like working for Newcastle - but it came as a real surprise.

He also said refs have the power to stop a game if there's racial abuse, can be the only way tbh. Black player who's team is down 2-0 with 10 minutes left walk off stating racial abuse, it has to be left to the ref. It's all a bit messy tbh. Not sure what "stopping the game" means in real terms, finish at whatever score it was at the time?, empty the stadium and restart? couldn't do replays. Ukraine take the lead, monkey chants (or suchlike) start, what's the ref to do ????

Carr 8 years, take him to 75 http://www.nufc.co.uk/articles/20120607/graham-carr-given-eight-year-deal_2281670_2800792

My favourite cover EVER Another excellent cover, DMB and Warren Haynes, he can play a bit:

Lead singer of Slipknot!! in can really sing shocker My fave Mr B song

For the ballad lovers (what a fucking voice) I'm 53 and this gives me goosepimples Hairtastic And Skynyrd