Welcome to the first instalment of CelticTaxCase. As the thousands who are following on Twitter know our first blog was due for Sunday but such is the unprecedented demand for answers we thought it only fair to do an introductory FAQ blog to outline our intentions and dispel any myths that are doing the rounds on Twitter:
Q. Why are you setting up this blog?
A. Over the last couple of years the Internet and social media has been full of Rangers hating ‘journalists’ slandering The Club and dragging us to the cliff edge. With The Club now recovering from their sustained attacks and looking to come out of Administration stronger than ever we feel it’s time that other clubs, specifically Celtics, finances be properly examined.
Q. Are HMRC currently investigating Celtic?
A. At the moment the short answer is no. Having said that though the short answer is very misleading. HMRC have declared war on football clubs as Portsmouth, Hearts and Rangers have found out in recent months. There has been also some less well reported exchanges between HRMC and football clubs over the use of image rights which I personally think has certain people at Celtic Park very worried.
Q. What’s the deal with image rights?
A. Image rights are not illegal and are not tax avoidance if they can be justified and are used properly. Maybe Celtic have used them properly and adequately valued the image rights of players such as Nakamura, however, if you look at merchandising and sponsorship figures in Celtic PLC’s accounts through the years I personally don’t think the image rights are worth as much as what they were perhaps specified as in contracts.
Q. If what you think is true what are the implications?
A. Lets use for example Player Y earning £40,000 a week at Club X for four years. £20,000 is wages and all tax and national insurance is paid properly and £20,000 is for image rights. Player Y earns £4m in total from image rights through the duration of his contract yet only pays 28% rate of tax when in reality he should be paying 50% tax. This leaves a tax shortfall of nearly £900,000. If you multiply that by maybe 5 or 6 players doing something similar and add interest and penalties you are looking at potential liabilities of upwards of £15 million.
Q. Are Celtic guilty of this? When is the bill likely to land at Celtic Park?
A. In all honesty at the moment we don’t know but the chances are they are maybe guilty.
Q. Without evidence how can you speculate they are maybe guilty?
A. I’ve done extensive research into those in power at Celtic Park and believe that Dermot Desmond is the man who pulls the strings over there. It is my personal belief that the rest of them are merely front men. We would suggest that people read up on the Moriarty Tribunal where it was found that Mr Desmond made payments to the Irish Taoiseach Charles Haughey to the value of at least £125,000 via a Swiss bank account which were never declared by Mr Haughey. Although no wrong doing was ever proven against Mr Desmond it does raise serious questions. Especially as this was not an isolated incident.
Q. Good work. This sounds like potentially a ‘smoking gun’. What else can you tell us?
A. I personally believe there was something fishy about the deals that saw Roy and Robbie Keane play for Celtic. Some have speculated that Celtic received ‘soft loans’ for these deals from the aforementioned Dermot Desmond. I’m currently investigating ‘soft loans’, whether they are illegal under any article of SPL/SFA regulations and whether they were used at Celtic Park. Could be interesting.
Q. What about stories of fabricated attendances at Celtic Park?
A. This is something that will be difficult to prove however it’s something I will look into. The fact is that back in the 1960’s the oldCeltic Park regularly hosted crowds of 75,000 people at Old Firm games and European games. In the 1980’s and early 90’s the stadium was every bit as busy looking at TV pictures for Old Firm matches but crowds are listed as 52,000. Lets speculate that over a period of 10 years Celtic played an average of 22 home matches a season and rounded down their crowds by 10,000 a match. If the average admission price through those years was £8 we are looking at liabilities of £8 x 20% VAT x 22 matches x 10 seasons x 10,000 fans = £35,200,000! This would be before interest and penalties and could make the Rangers ‘Big Tax Case’ seem almost not worth talking about.
Q. Is it true Celtic have used EBT’s?
A. It is widely recognised that they did use EBT’s with Juninho. I don’t know much detail about this but if they were used incorrectly and if they were accompanied by a “second contract” then every game he played for Celtic could potentially be deemed 3-0 to the opposition which could result in demotion to the first division and the annulment of Celtics 2005 Scottish Cup victory… Martin O’Neill’s last trophy at the club!!!!
Q. So what’s next?
A. A lot more digging to be done but we will be back at some point next week to put some flesh on the bones we’ve outlined above. Anyone who can provide us with any evidence to support what we think might have happened at Celtic Park please contact me on twitter @celtictaxcase
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HAHAHAHAHA sooooooooooo funny. Good luck on your quest. Remember and provide hard facts and evidence. I wan’t to see legal documents including contracts and solicitor papers, just like rangerstaxcase provided. Then we can all take you seriously and not just a real internet bampot
WOW just WOW!
either a tim at the wind up, or a complete grade A looney.
Honestley, i can’t take anymore of this stuff. It’s like being tickled to death !!!!
54 to 0 amigo. tick tock
Were you deprived oxygen at birth?
Honestly a real laugh out loud moment reading that, clueless huns lol
Let’s get this straight. Rangers are in massive financial difficulty. The club is in very real danger of going out of business as a result of gross mismanagement over a 20 year period and it’s the journalists and bloggers who broke the story who are your enemy???
Now, rather than try to find out who is to blame for taking your club to it’s knees, you’d rather set up a blog trying to dig up dirt on Celtic??
I shall watch with interest for what you manage to uncover. Just a wee hint though – RTC had ACTUAL evidence rather than just a hunch when he started his blog. I’m sure though he will be chuffed that you are such an admirer of his work that you have decided to try and copy him. The choice of name for your blog shows some marvellous original thinking on your part too.
Anyway, I’m sure you’re busy so I’ll leave you to it.
If I uncover any unpaid parking tickets around Celtic Park I’ll be sure to let you know. 😉
What a lot of pishhhh, lot of time your wasting on this witch hunt time you will never get bk get out and enjoy the sunshine nigel
So, no evidence of any wrong doing at all then?
Huns are great 🙂
Unfortunately you will not get back the hours and days of your life that you have wasted on this. Can I suggest you spend around £200 and get a 3 or 4 hour consultation with any competent tax professional in Glasgow. Ideally with an interest in Celtic and/or Rangers. This will save you an awful lot more than that in freeing your time for positive ends.
I honestly wish you well in anything constructive you do with the rest of your life.
God Bless.
You are funny.
Come on at least stop using if and maybe. Get some hard facts. Surely you could also have picked a better name. Just smacks of desperation.
Brilliant! A hilarious spoof of the paranoia of Rangers’ fans.
Keep up the good work!
Wow, just wow.
You are, it appears, an absolute cretin. However, keep up the “good” work. It is a source of much hilarity.
Best Regards,
A. Mouse.
Hahaha are you actually serious use daftys need your heads checked. Clutching at straws fkn clowns man this is hysterical!!
Great site CTC,you must keep your anonymity from the likes of the Rhebel or they will try and undermine the strong case your building.
Keep digging away!
lol…genius…all solid insightful stuff here…surely this is a wind up? No right thinking intelligent Rangers fan can possibly believe there is anything here worth Investigating or even resembles a “smoking gun”
Outstanding Bampottery… from which prestigious institute did you get your legal qualifications?
The best of luck in you endeavours.
Although i did note a rather worrying occurrence of “in my opinon”, “maybe” and “possibly” throughout your blog?
As a Celtic fan and a fan of scottish football i think it is only right that people who can be proven to have been evading tax and cheating scottish football are punnished.
Enjoy the late nights and remember that one thing you will need to remain is anonymous, lawyers love opinions.
Fuckin hilarious ya moon unit.
Good to see someone fight back I look forward to the results of your investigations
That’s close to being maybe a good blog hopefully.
Maybe you’ll find Celtic perhaps guilty or as close to guilty as you could almost prove.
Maybe Celtic should possibly be guilty of alleged wrong or could be right doing. The possibilities are almost endless, finite in their infiniteness.
Bonne chance as they say in Italy or maybe it’s Germany, possibly even France.
hahahhahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaahahahahahahahah
clutching at straws ya fuckin moon unit
“In all honesty at the moment we don’t know but the chances are they are maybe guilty.”
Quality.
I’m going to get that printed on a t-shirt.
Jog on Hunothy Jog
Chucky R Law
Well that’s annoying…….
At last! Someone must cut off the long tentacles of the sinister Lawwel and the dark forces behind him. The de facto leader Scottish Football.
He sickens me to my stomach.
” It is widely recognised that they did use EBT’s with Juninho. I don’t know much detail about this”
Pretty much says it all . When blogging , you’ll find ” extensive research ” is your best friend .
It is great to see a bit of balance on the web. We’ve been taking a doing for too long now when it is perfectly clear that we’re not the only ones who are using tax payers money.
I would suggest that you carefully monitor the site though, because if it degenerates into a slagging show and pure vile get’s posted, it will only become a laughing stock. We might be in deep trouble but at least we can show that we are above sinking to their level.
HAHAHAHAHAHA. ‘sinking to their level’, stop, please, I’m in tears here. That’d be the level where one can be sure to encounter financial transparency and sound business sense?
‘….we’re not the only ones who are using tax payers (sic) money’!!! That’s not the problem; it’s that you weren’t paying any tax whilst availing yourselves of said monies/services funded by said monies.
By the way, I enjoyed the wee display with the servicemen in November. Anyway, must dash, my neighbour has just bought himself a steak and he wants to watch me eat it…
Balance ffs, haha you’re as mental as him and btw your level is sewer and you’re already a laughing stock, so get over it
Insteresting stuff. May be in contact soon.
talk about scrapping the barrel lol
Pathetic attempt to paper over your own cracks
Why are you doing this : coz ma nurd chucked me and ive gkt nothing better to do. And tbey tims are getting together with HMRC and the papers and have pure got it in for Rangers just coz we bumped the taxman and played with misregistered players for years its just no fair so it issnae
Are HMRC investigating Celtic : well naw bit then everybody knows they are mates with Peter Lawell, and just pure huv it in for the ranjurs do they dae
this is hilarious!
Full marks for kite flying!
grasping at straws here….anything to make you feel better about the sorry state your vile club are in!
Ha! Brilliant laugh mate. I thought this was real for a minute. Comedy genius…
You suggest Celtic could be demoted to the first division if all games Juninho played in were awarded as 3-90 victories to the opposition.
Perhaps your extensive research didn’t reveal he played 14 games, and losing 42 points would see Celtic placed 6th in the final 2004-05 SPL table.
Good work.
Aye aboot time too.
I hope you get to the bottom of this and find out the whereabouts of the money that was collected by those wee “watch yer car mister” ragamuffins operating under the control of Messrs. Kelly and White.
Oh aye…an’ those “Cheeseorameatroll ” guys – who sold ’em by the eggbox load annaw.
TAL
Brilliant!!! Fantastic!!!! Good on you!!! About time the pistols were trained on those timmy conspirators in the East End.
Great first article – leaves the reader with more questions than answers; less clarity and direction as to what you aim to achieve;
Are you a trained monkey? Are you David Leggatt?
ur deluded worry about ur own team
Mate,
it’s another 10 days till April Fool’s day!
Desperate, desperate stuff – and typical “whatabouterty”.
Your “extensiove research” has identified that Mr Desmond pulls the strings? Well blow me, that’s a real surprise – you’re in denial like all of your support and throwing mud at Celtic whilst your Club dies is very sad indeed.
Some interesting language on here.
Looking forward to the next installment.
I have an inside man at CP I can maybe pass across some interesting details about the pies and bovril tax scam. Let me know if you are interested.
I heard a story once that Desmond found a pound coin and kept it, surely it merits investigation too
Are you Sherlock holmes?
Answer:No..your a fucking disgrace to the bears.
Mac –
I too have heard about the bovril scam, it seems they ship in pies from China, pass it off as ‘made in ireland’ and then don’t pay tax as they get some kind of EU subsidy for using pies from a nation in a recession.
The truth must out about the pies.
This is gonnae be brilliant, man. Oh wait, any chance some or all of this pish applies tae Rainjurs tae? U must have a lot of time on your hands, are u on the buroo? Do u have a season ticket for the library? So many questions, am pure buzzin, man.
Hi Celtictaxcase ,
apologies for having a ‘go’ from the off but your tweets talk about ‘only dealing in facts’ . In the 80’s/90’s , only 5 seasons featured 44 league games (22 home/away) – the rest were all 36 (18/18). Maybe you could correct your post in the name of factual accuracy ?
Yours in truth (and fact)
This must be a piss take? Far too funny to be taken seriously
whataboutery of the very highest order
i’m guessing that your next “update” will be after a troll of the well heeled members of the ludj.
well done you.
Absolutely splendid, about time, bravo, let’s at last have a level playing field.
Fail Fail!
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
I can see where you are coming from giving examples of players and attendances and such, I know it is only examples, but at the time of the attendance thing it would not have been 20% vat. It would still be big numbers but it would be more credible if you were less general, you are obviously on to something here.
The Desmond thing only dirties the water I think, it wouldn’t mean a lot as far as Celtic are concerned. I think everybody knows that he calls the shots in there, so that is not a great revelation.
This is a joke right? @celtictaxcase?? WHAT TAX CASE?
“Q. Are Celtic guilty of this? When is the bill likely to land at Celtic Park?
A. In all honesty at the moment we don’t know but the chances are they are maybe guilty.”
There is no chance this can be real! If so then LOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!
It is truly astonishing that Rangers are being taken to task by HMRC when everybody knows that Celtic are just as bad.
They have maybe been a little more clever in hiding what they’ve done, but there is no doubt that whatever it is they are hiding will come out eventually, and even if the thing they’ve done is not as bad as first thought, it will surely be enough to have the club suspended prior to relegation to the third division, so there might be Old Firm games next season after all.
W.A.T.P.
Surrender…No!
I’d be very very careful what you put in this blog.
Any false accusations and you could be looking at trouble
hahhaahahah even as a Rangers fan I find this funny.
Good to see someone with a bit of humor.
Bampots
Is there any more on the cfc and Celtic athletic still trading i checked athletic still up and running
When do you go back in to the insane asylum ?
Not only is this a piece of fiction if you actually believe what you have written then it suggests that you are not fully in control of your faculties and possibly a danger to society at large!
On the other hand I’ve not had such a good laugh in ages, very entertaining, perhaps that was what you meant to be, humourlessly entertaining ? If so then mark it down as a success if not, please contact your psychiatrist ASAP!
errrrrrm, think you may have got your numbers a tad wrong there. Not a huge error you are only 31,680,000 out.
22*10,000*8*0.2*10 = 3,520,000
this is a very credible blog indeed …………… LOL!
Lets speculate that over a period of 10 years Celtic played an average of 22 home matches a season and rounded down their crowds by 10,000 a match. If the average admission price through those years was £8 we are looking at liabilities of £8 x 20% VAT x 22 matches x 10 seasons x 10,000 fans = £35,200,000!
VAT was 17.5% back then too.
And they didn’t play 22 games a season, oh well
This is brilliant, just what we need.
I’ve heard we need to start the investigation in ’67. Someone said on RangersMedia that they didn’t pay duty on the bags of goodies they brought back from Lisbon.
Keep up the good work.
Moonbeams. If, buts and maybes, reminds me of an old saying, IF my auntie had baws she’d be my uncle.
“With The Club now recovering from their sustained attacks and looking to come out of Administration stronger than ever.” How can anybody trust any information after this quote, your just spewing out the same guff from Murray and Whytes PR men in the media.
Iam very worried about the Celtic tax case now that Mr. Holmes is on the case, away and pap peas at the moon, better chance of hitting it than finding make believe answers to fairytale stories.
Lol what a load of gash!!!!! Feeling bitter “billyboy” Pmsl you’ve just made my day #littlewhytelies
“With The Club now recovering from their sustained attacks and looking to come out of Administration stronger than ever”
Are you for real? You lost me right there…..
Get back to your homework before the village wonders where you are.
Your maths seem to be miles off, the VAT rate was 17.5% not 20% (as of 4th january 2011). Also take Naka for example when he was playing for Celtic, Tax on Image rights was 24% and not 28% as you say! your investigating skills have a lot to be desired. In your opening note you say ” dispel any myths “. This seems to be a strange way to word. The facts about rangers are out for everyone to see. They are not myths. What you are writing is mythology with bucket loads of Disambiguation. This is nothing more than Anti Propoganda, to dilute rangers problem.
Desperate rangers fan(s) looking to take the attention away from there own clubs wrong doings. If it was simply trying to draw attention to a more wide spread problem within Scottish football it would be called scottishfootballtaxcase and not simply aimed at Celtic. I dont think anyone at Celtic park will be loosing any sleep tonight if its you who is investigating them as your site screams “Amatuer”. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dermot_Desmond does pull the strings and if its not an Isolated Incident, can you prove that? Can you prove Celtic used an EBT with Journino? You seem to like answering your own questions, maybe you should be asking, why did we drag ourselves to the cliffs edge.
Good luck with your blog, looks like you may need it.
Seems more like turning every issue that has been raised against Rangers in the last year is trying to turn upon Celtic. Although it has been widely reported that Celtic have no case to answer for any of the above claims – according to SFA, SPL, HMRC
HMRC has already settled ALL ‘image rights’ tax cases they had with ALL UK clubs that were using that tax avoidance scheme for players that obviously had no image to have a right against. This was done within the last 3 weeks – according to HMRC tax expert who was on the BBC Radio 2 Jeremy Vibe show the day all the clubs settled – and FYI it only concerned clubs in England, NONE in Scotland were guilty of this, yup think everyone was surprised Rangers were innocent on this as well ha ha
From your comments about attendances in the 1980’s I am guessing you are not of an age when you can remember those days. Stadiums changed after the Ibrox disaster and attendances were restricted by health & safety. Roof’s were put on many stadiums. Also you should remember that in the 1980’s both Rangers & Celtic were going through a particular lean spell in terms of winning trophies, and as you probably know many supporters only really appear when teams are winning (look at Rangers before Murray took over, with attendances of circa 8000-1000).
I look forward to reading the ‘flesh on the bone’ with informed some FACTS ha ha ha
P.S It’s probably took you about 2 weeks to write those Q&A’s, it’s took me a half an hour to decipher it. If I spent any longer I would be doing you a disservice, so I’ll just leave that up to you.
Is this Blog a joke or are you for real????
podium?
Allow me to summarize the facts in your first post, in the interests of brevity.
1. Rangers are in administration.
2. There is no Celtic Tax Case.
3. Dermot Desmond is an important person at Celtic Football Club.
Keep up the good work!
Barrel scraping? Straw clutching? Haha dig on matey
Everything so far is a load of bollix but I have info that will rock your blog and more besides…….
I will post this when the time is right.never mind the soft loans what about the hard ……….. I’ll say no more just now but as I say I have info that will rock…………………..
Sincerest form of flattery, but all total bunkum you have wasted a lot of time on this just cos your hurting
54 to 0 lol
If you are going to start a blog regarding this, please for the love of God use facts and not wild speculative rubbish.
If you had really done your homework you would realise this already I suppose.
Re Juninho’s EBT if true (which it is not and again do proper reaearch) then CFC would lose out of 1 Trophy.
On the other hand RFC would lose out on 13 years of trophies ( Not to mention prize money) RFC would owe other clubs (PORTO being the first to lodge such a claim)
That said good luck with your blog but FACTS please.
Ya fuckin tossers hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha. learn to use grammar and punctuation properly and some fannies might believe you
Are you related to anyone called Declan
can you put my comment back up please, I’ll give you some juicy insider info if you do honest iwilli’m nokidding ireally will
Great stuff blogger …. keep digging …. I’ve not had a laugh like that in a long time…..
I have information that a current Celtic player has a second contract.
The stage is yours ……………
Who is it?
A certain Cha Du Ri.
Aye, I’ve seen him in adverts for liver tablets. He must have a contract with them.
He may even have 3 as he also brought out a single.
Scanadlous!
That is scandalous Bear!
Keep digging and keep me posted.
Comedy gold. You keep up that investigatorisating old bean, I’m sure something will turn up, maybe ol’ Pietro Lawwell bought Juninho a scratch card or Brian Quinn gave Naka an undeclared lift to training one day.
Quite seriously, you don’t see it but you are making a complete and utter tool of yourself! We have enough problems at the big house without trying to fabricate pish about other clubs. Delete this nonsense before you humiliate yourself and the Rangurs any more.
This is hysterical. Keep grasping at mythical straws. You Huns are getting everything you deserve.
If this is a wind-up then bravo sir.
If not……oh dear.
There is no tax case against Celtic, you total fucking brain dead moron.
On second read, this is definitely a wind-up.
Bill Struth had an EBT.
FACT.
Keep it coming ,mate.
This needs worldwide exposure.
If you need help with any legal bills that occur because of your revelations,there are plenty of options available to a True Blue.
Remember to ensure the rope isnae too long,though………
There is a chance I am a multi millionaire with an interest in buying a club in trouble.
Will a pound of my possible fortune suffice?
Charlie Mulgrew definitely has two contracts,full package with Virgin and unlimited internet with Sky!! Keep digging!!!
Is this kid on? Is there an adult involved with this blog. If you write something that starts ‘Let’s speculate…’ then you will have zero credence.
I can’t wait till Celtic’s lawyers contact you. You idiot.
I don’t know about fleshing out the bones in the forthcoming blogs. I don’t even think you have found any bones yet. Have you actually spent money on this? Having said that, I have never laughed so heartily for years. This is comedy gold. Please please please keep going.
i can not stop laughing, comic genius 🙂
I have information that 5 wee kiosk lassies were paid cash by desmond in season 99/2000.
The wee lassies were also claiming benefits at the time. All 5, yes all 5.
This is potentially explosive, email me for further details.
“In all honesty at the moment we don’t know but the chances are they are maybe guilty.”
That right there is outstanding!
Brilliantly satirical! Keep ’em coming! ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Timmy has now unleashed forces which ultimately will come back to bite him. Mendacity, duplicity and deceit have always been Timmy watchwords. The worm has turned, the lion has roared, in God and Rangers we trust. Unsheath the sword of justice (metaphysically speaking) and let Timmy be smote!!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defamation
I hope you have evidence sonny 🙂
Did you go to school.
You have made the classic mistake here, to be similar to other blogs that are trying to prove facts and to give some credence to what you are trying to say it is important to verify your theories.
Other bloggers prefix their theories with ‘ many people say’, this was taken from another blog which makes things seem worse than they really are.
If you take your first question and change it around it becomes, many people say HMRC are investigating Celtic. I know this is not currently true, but it is what the bloggers say, even though it could be factual, what these people have been doing over the last few years is start rumours and are currently claiming victory. Even though we have not been found guilty of anything.
Funny that not guilty, many people say we are innocent.
Let’s see what happens when you change the next question on image rights.
Many people say that Celtic abused the image rights tax avoidance scheme on players to help them reduce the tax burden for the club. Again this changes the viewpoint entirely and some people will not believe this could be true, but if enough people say it often enough people start thinking its true.
Another blogger who wants to find out the truth chrisgraham also has this theory which is based on Joseph Goebbels, a German propaganda expert during the war, for Adolf Hitler the nazi Germany. Who’s theory it was to tell untruths often and people will begin to believe them. This is what is happening now, people are saying things like cheats, tax dodgers, liars which is false and now it’s beginning to stick.
What we must also get better at is deny and deflect, but must never get into always cheated never defeated.
What must be said is that now that Ceptic are back tracking after the bedlam they have caused, is it just a coincidence that the English football leagues have told them they are not welcome. Peter Lawwell appears to be fighting Rangers corner against the other league teams that want to change the voting structure.
Keep up the good work celtictaxcase whoeveryouare, but remember the truth will out.
Please man, take this down and delete it-it reads like the work of a child. People out there really are believing that you are a Celtic fan taking the piss.
Re your sum on the celtic tickets: it adds up to 3.5 miliion NOT 35 million.
A litany of grammatical errors in this and on your twitter….you must be an idiot.
Oh yeah, and the complete lack of any facts at all doesn’t help your credibility.
Calling it “Celtictaxcase” when there is no such thing is a complete farce.
I’m a Celtic fan but I would advise you to take this down. I feel very sorry for you.
Oh dear, if you’re going do a spoof at least learn to do a spot of editing before publishing. There’s some good humour here but it’s let down by the quality of writing. Good luck with your digging, and when the hole’s big enough stick your head in it. Don’t worry too much about ‘the facts’ because you know as well as I do no-one’s going to take you seriously. I’m sure that won’t stop you having some fun though, especially in the dark days that lie ahead.
“In all honesty at the moment we don’t know but the chances are they are maybe guilty”
ahhhhaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhaaaaaaaa, aye an mibbbe ah shagged Michelle Pfeiffer or
mibbee ah didnae. Away back to school ya trumpet.
“With The Club now recovering from their sustained attacks and looking to come out of Administration stronger than ever ” can i just point out that when the ‘Big Tax Case’ is won in favour of HMRC your ‘club’ will be crippled beyond all repair, HMRC have not spent a decade on this case just to let you get away with it. Your own administrators have already doubts on the funding available on 3 of the bids, these bids to not include the outcome of the case. YOU ARE NOT IN ADMINSTRATION DUE TO THE BIG TAX CASE BUT FOR THE TAX AND VAT THAT HASNT BEEN PAID SINCE WHYTE TOOK OVER. Mr Craig ‘Ghod’ Whyte has stated the ‘big tax case’ could be up to £74 million, plus, the VAT and TAX that hasnt been paid since he took over, the ticketus money that is owed, the several legal cases against the club, the overall debt is way way over £120million. Your club will have years and years of large legal bills trying to keep creditors away. I may also point out that the use of EBTs are not illegal, IF and that is the biggest IF possible Celtic used an EBT with Juninho Celtic WILL NOT be stripped of the scottish cup, Rangers used EBTs to avoid paying tax for over a decade, and were stupid enough to have seperate contracts highlighting this. I must also point out, your ‘club’ have appointed the worst administrators in history who are not familar with scottish law, they also couldnt correctly put your club into administration without mucking that up. The rangers are going to die, the sooner you realise this the sooner you can get on with your life and stop wasting your time writing this nonsense, i feel for you i honestly do.
its a piss take you fucking cretin!! £120 million debt where do you pick this out from?? do you just make stuff up yeah? what an idiot!!! the tax man is always right isnt he?? look at the 8million wasted on harry redknapp case!! if rangers do go they will be taking the rest of the sinking ship that is the spl with them and that includes celtic! good luck without us!!
“the chances are they are maybe guilty”. Brilliant, Sherlock. Just how do you do it?
This is tragic, but hilarious nonetheless. Keep up your invaluable research and remember to share with your avid readership.
Also, In 1985 I asked for a ham and cheese roll and all i got was ham, I want to know where all the cheese went, Is it in an offshore Deli? He also said he had no macaroon bars left but i clearly saw his mate with 2 extra boxes!!! These things should be out in the open!!!
HAHAHHA!
I was there. They were all at it. Pocketing the macaroons.
Dark days.
I have to confess, I ate some of the macaroons
Please man, take this down and delete it-it reads like the work of a child. People out there really are believing that you are a Celtic fan taking the p*ss.
Re your sum on the celtic tickets: it adds up to 3.5 miliion NOT 35 million.
A litany of grammatical errors in this and on your twitter….you must be an idiot.
Oh yeah, and the complete lack of any facts at all doesn’t help your credibility.
Calling it “Celtictaxcase” when there is no such thing is a complete farce.
I’m a Celtic fan but I would advise you to take this down. I feel very sorry for you.
Wow tremendous support from your fellow Bears NOT. now please give up and stop embarassing yourself. RFC* showing Wee Wullie Bluenose(or whatever) on Sunday will rob Bears of any dignity they have left. They dont need your Help #fail
“The chances are they are maybe guilty”.
A phrase that rivals Brian Fontana’s “60% of the time, it works everytime” in the nonsensical stakes, the difference being that Anchorman was funny.
Mind the anti-depressants when liquidation hits.
@celtictaxcase? Your spell checker is shite!
After these astounding revelations, I’ve decided to stop watching Scottish football as its so corrupt. I’ll also have to disassociate myself with anything Irish or Chinese. Cant wait for your lates revelations. Is jackanory still on?
This blog is the strongest argument yet as to why schools should never be integrated!!!!
I offer this to the tax authorities as to why Rangers should survive. It is my own personal testimony as what it is to be a Rangers supporter in all its quintessence……
As the fortieth anniversary of Rangers’ greatest achievement on the field draws near, now is as good a time as any to remember that glorious occasion. Much has been written about Rangers triumph in May 24th, 1972 and it will always remained etched in my memory as to quote a terrible cliché, I was there!
My brother Crichton, my future brother-in-law George and me made up the intrepid threesome bound for the distant Mediterranean port. Our means of transportation was an ancient Humber camper van which served as our sleeping quarters during the week long Odyssey. Since neither Crichton nor I had a driving licence, George was left with the Herculean task of conveying us single-handedly from the wilds of West Fife to Barcelona and back!
We somehow made it over the Pyrenees with the Humber creaking ominously as it climbed the huge mountains which separate France from Spain. It was clear that from the moment we entered Spain that it was very different. We were ordered out of the van at customs control by uniformed men in strangely shaped, black patent hats. This was our first encounter with the notorious Guardia Civil, General Franco’s paramilitary force notorious for their brutal methods of suppressing any form of dissent.
Much has been written about “Barcelona 1972”, much of it true some of it fantasy. What is clear is that to gain any understanding of the events, one has to understand the Spain of 1972. Francisco Franco took power illegally in Spain, following the end of the Spanish Civil War in 1939. Along with his buddies Hitler and Mussolini, he ruled ruthlessly and was particularly brutal in those regions which he saw as dangerous and disloyal. Barcelona being the capital of Catalonia was essentially a city under constant oppression.
People were not allowed to associate in groups of more than three people, trade unions were banned, speaking Catalan was banned in schools and in public, there were no free elections.
It was into this strange, alien world that Crichton, George and I wandered, truly innocents abroad. On the day of the game the number of Rangers supporters suddenly became much more visible. They gathered in the Plaça de Cataluyna and began the songs which were regarded with curiosity by the locals. The Guardia Civil stood back nervous at seeing so many people express themselves freely.
Gradually the locals’ curiosity overcame their natural caution to observe these strange tall, fair skinned Aryans from the north. Divided by language, religion and culture, two diverse peoples engaged initially at least in nervous social intercourse.
As I recall it was a clear morning with just a few clouds in the sky, perhaps a portend of the eventful day which was about to unfold.
By two o’clock as a result of the chartered planes arriving, the Plaça de Catalunya had suddenly filled to overflowing. In those days, one of Her Brittanic Majesty’s notes would get you 320 pesetas. That is a lot of vino tinto and cerveza! At just forty pesetas for a carafe, the day was set and it was fiesta time. I remember clearly attempting to have a conversation in broken English with a diminutive Spaniard who reeked of garlic.
‘Señor, eet ees a pleashure to ‘ave you weet uz, thank you, thank you” he muttered with tears in his eyes.’
After two litres of red wine, the wee man knew “Derry’s Walls” and “The Sash’ by heart. By this time, the huge square could no longer contain the thronging mass of humanity. New friendships had been established between one oppressed people and another with a long and dignified history which cherished individual rights and freedoms.They may have struggled to understand the impenetrable dialects of Larkhall, Harthill and Skye, but instinctively the locals knew the good guys had come to town.
From the Plaça de Catalyna the great human cavalcade headed down the Ramblas, the main thoroughfare of Barcelona. From the high balconies above, dark eyed beauties tossed carnations, more wine was offered and gratefully accepted. Then almost imperceptibly at first, a faint chant could be discerned, growing each second in volume until it reached an incredible cacophony. ‘¡Libertad!¡Libertad!¡Libertad!
The people had found their voice, Rangers being the main orifice for Catalan pride. All the while Franco’s acolytes watched on nervously, their itchy hands stroking their huge truncheons. We sensed what was coming but we were young, we were free and above all we were Rangers. At the end of the Ramblas, we turned left under the stunning “Arco de los Borrachos” and onto our date with destiny at the Nou Camp. The game still has a surreal quality to it, almost dreamlike.
Any aspiring screen writer could not have come up with a better script. The venue of the game held in the last bastion of fascism with its unhealthy link to the Catholic church and its religious fanatics.
Ranger’s opponents? The Godless, soulless artifact that was the Soviet Union. A society in which human beings were reduced to the status of ‘social units”. And between these two evils stood Rangers, standing for the true values of Christianity and decency.
I have read a lot about Spain and its recent history and have retraced my steps three times. It was slightly scary to learn that the same route we ploughed that May day was in the footsteps of George Orwell and the International Brigade. Orwell and co may have come to Spain with different objectives and most probably had no interest in football. However, had George and his fellow democrats been present that balmy May night, you can be sure that he would have been cheering on the lads in blue and white. After all, the victory in Barcelona was more than just a game of football. Rangers has always been a lot more than football, the nation’s conscience and its heart and soul. Mr Taxman do you really want to erase such memories? I leave it up to you.
The last 3 or 4 paragraphs in this post are by far the best comedy yet. Fair play to you mate you have mirrored what many a deluded hun actually believes very well.
vat @ 20% lol
try getting even the simple thing right
the 10,000 you talk about were punted over the barrier for nothing
better get your VHS out to prove it
Colinstein,
Thanks for your contribution, I actually laughed out loud at “The people had found their voice, Rangers being the main orifice for Catalan pride.”
Which orifice are you talking about? Ha Ha ha
Iv never laughed so much at 8.30 am in my life. Thank you. I shall give you one more fact. You are a walloper
You my friend are a fucking comedy genius. Do not ever stop this blog.
Oh, and for every other retard out there….IT’S A FUCKIN WYND UP. Jeezo, the only thick ones are the ones believing this is actually real.
This is simply outstanding. The club stand accused.
You must be a real heavyweight. So much information in such a short time.
Be careful. The MSM might come and try to poach you.
Great stuff. Brightens up my day.
Never underestimate the predictability of stupidity !
Please moderate your language this family entertainment
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altogether now…the tims are going bust the tims are going bust
ok lets look at what you have said point by point
point 1 why are you setting up the blog; interstingly its because of rangers having been caught fiddling their taxes so you now want not to face up to what they have done as a club , you wish to try and say “it wasnt just us”..but you single out celtic specifically, therefore your just a bitter rangers fan , face up to your clubs cheating firstly .
point 2 HMRC investigating celtic; ANSWER NO and the point that you “think celtic are worried” is pure wishful thinking
point 3, Image right; again its your personal opinion , wishful, that the figures in celtics accounts are wrong. may i ask what are your qualifications and experience to make such a judgement as the accouts are approved by reputable accountants who will have made those valuations.. please advise
point 4, makes no sense, all you have done is shown you have a basic level of maths skills, who are the 5 or 6 players
point 5 , and i quote “we dont know but the chances are they are maybe guilty” how are the chances that celtic are guilty based on what….. your wishful hopes
point 6, your evidence as to celtics guilt of anything= ZERO , you discuss a major shareholder in the club and admit that there is NO evidence he has done anything wrong…… so your evidence of CELTICS guilt is that a leading shareholder has DONE NOTHING WRONG…. frankly you make no sense at all
point 7 ” good work a potential smoking gun” obviously you are trying to praise yourself but look at your points above ” no evidence” ” we dont know” are HMRC investigating NO” add that all up and you have only wishful thinking and speculation of “some” are those your mate billy and cameron from the louden arms as sit in misery and instead of taking your club up for its misdeeds you just wish celtic had done the same
point 8 “stories of fabricated attendances at celtic park”… firsly i am sure youa re hot on the heels of similar stories ala rangers for the same period over 50 years ago. also how can you be expected to be taken seriously when you do a calculation of the vat owed and dont even know the correct rate of vat for the years youa re talking about.
it took me precisely 12 second to find this information out so you and you fantastic research department might want to introduce yourselves to something called the internet where you can find out things called THE FACTS none of which seem to be of interest to your blog…. here is a wee bit of help for you and your daring fellow sleuths
“Conservative Chancellor Geoffrey Howe increased the standard rate of VAT from 8% to 15% and abolished the higher rate in June 1979.[2][5][9] The rate remained unchanged until 1991, when Conservative Chancellor Norman Lamont increased it from 15% to 17.5%”
point 9 it is widelya cknowledged that celtic used an ebit ” correctly” for juniniho but brian quinn on being elected celtic chairman ( he was ex deputy govenor of the bank of england ” advise the club not to use such dubious schemes and celtic advised the tax man and paid the full amounts to the tax man even tho he wasnt asking for it. Interestingly your argument here does mean rangers should be deducted all trophies since about 1990, BIT OF AN OWN GOAL THERE
point 10 and iquote ” Anyone who can provide us with any evidence to support what we think might have happened at Celtic Park please contact me ”
so basically you have no evidence you wish celtic had done something wrong , you ahve basic maths but cannot even look up the correct vat rate for a certain year, info that is on the internet and easy to obtain you sir are a fool
point 12 your friend have helped me to reveal to the world that
it has been recently rumoured ” by me” that i have been ahving great sex with kelly brook and a numebr of other supermodels
it is quite possible that i have the worlds largest male organ as i can count up to 24 so it might possibly you never know be even bigger than 24 inches. i am hopeful to reveal evidence that i won the american lottery of $500 million dollars even tho i never ever bought a ticket. i alsto would like to beleive i am ahving chateu briand beef tonight but i have only a pizza in the fridge and i am not going out to the shops… but hey ho this is all as likely as your blog
whens the second blog? I cannot fucking wait
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