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Thought you might have been amused at this news!On a more serious note, I have at least half a dozen friends who will find out today if they are losing their jobs. That’s the human side of it.
How long before the calls for rangers and celtic to be in the premier league start.
Rangers are going into administration to stave off paying 50 million pounds of unpaid tax.
This tax avoiding by uber rich footballers stinks and is taking the piss out of ordinary working taxpayers.I actually think this puts paid (at least in the short term) to the possibiltiy of Rangers and Celtic coming into the Premier League. The PL will not want a financial liability round their necks.
As well it would loosen the argument for having separate England and Scotland international teams. The SFA as ruling body for football in Scotland would not allow it.
And that’s before we get into Scottish independence.
How long before the calls for rangers and celtic to be in the premier league start.Rangers are going into administration to stave off paying 50 million pounds of unpaid tax.
This tax avoiding by uber rich footballers stinks and is taking the piss out of ordinary working taxpayers.Lmb your spot on marrer,I dont think there should ever be a time when Celtic/Rangers play in the English pyramid systemn.We are the living proof of how our league works and ignoring that fact it would mean 2 English clubs would inevitably suffer from it.MK Dons shouldnt have been allowed to happen that is franchising which is everything our systemn is supposedly against.Look at AFC Wimbledon,Aldershot and Newport County all whom started from scratch again from the bottom.I personally hope it never happens but if it does they must start at the bottom and I dont give a flyer that they are the “biggest clubs in the world”.?Let them get fooked.
The problem with Scottish PL football is that you can be playing in front of 50,000 fans one week and 4,672 the following week.
It’s akin to Man city and Man Utd joining the Blue Square premier league.http://www.bluesqfootball.com/results/0,20984,,00.html
From Matlock to ManU
What a journey!Click down these match reports and check out the attendances.
Same league and same club involved in both games.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/15802741
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/15901554
From Matlock to ManU
What a journey!Same league, same teams, same season
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/15704897 :ohmy:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/16453504 :woohoo:
From Matlock to ManU
What a journey!Rangers going into administration is the death knell for Scottish football in my opinion.
Celtic will end up so ridiculously ahead of any other team in the league in terms of buying power that it will become a race to finish in second place for the others, and the whole competition becomes a farce. Celtic might a well play against their own Reserve team each week.
There will be a mass exodus of all the best players, and without competitive old firm games every season, which TV company in their right minds would want to invest money into the SPL?
I know the Celtic fans are rolling around laughing at Rangers’ plight, but it will only end up biting them on the arse too.
How long before the calls for rangers and celtic to be in the premier league start.Rangers are going into administration to stave off paying 50 million pounds of unpaid tax.
This tax avoiding by uber rich footballers stinks and is taking the piss out of ordinary working taxpayers.Its the fact that Rangers have been avoiding paying tax for over a decade, they have been failing to pay the ordinary workers tax bills for the past 5 years, to plough the money back into off shore payments to their players. Their new owner took over a year ago or so, refused to pay any tax since, then borrowed £24m against future ticket sales, which wasn’t anything to do with paying off the £18m is cost him to pay off the bank loans to the club, who had closed off their overdraft. Then filed for creditor protection so he could ring fence his own money.
Indeed this is a kick in the teeth for the little man. Rangers have been overspending for years and currently lose £10m a year, this is not a business model that should be saved, and shame on those in the club who have let this happen. The papers have known about what is going on for years, but too scared to expose it till recently.
Shame really, but maybe if they created a fair playing field then other teams could have been in the mix and made a more competitive league. Which ultimately would have created more TV interest in the league and earned them more money.
I can only say what the PL does and that is that gate receipts are retained by the home team – that is why we have these questions about allocations of away tickets, that only half of the potential is on a sale or return, otherwise the away team have to pay up.
In the PL rules are clear instructions that regular returns have to be made to the League about the tax position, and that tax has been paid. Looks like the SPL have closed their eyes.
were gate receipts ever shared (apart from cup games that is)?If you’re on about in England, then yes all gate receipts were shared between the 2 clubs playing in any given match in the football league up until this was scrapped (under pressure from the “big clubs”) in 1983 – from what i can gather it was a 50/50 split too
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