Rangers FC On Field Gossip & Rumour Thread 2017 Mod Note in OP(Updated 14/08)

TheBuilder wrote: »

The word bastard is anti Irish racism?

If Fenian automatiy means Irish, then there'a a hell of a lot of confused souls in the east end of Glasgow who call themselves Fenians, maybe they were just calling them bastards?

I don't buy this Fenian is sectarian when you bloody call yourselves it week in week out, then get offended when someone adds the word bastard on the end. We've even had the word Fenian meaning Catholic not so long ago, do make up your minds.

Of course if I said it was a dig at the Scottish people in the east end of Glasgow who see themselves as Irish then it would be laughed at.

No, but you don't get it.

Some of them are proud to call themselves fenians but you can't call them that.

Because, well, you see,... ya dirty bigot!

I would totally agree if someone said that No Pope of Rome has absolutely no place in any football ground, but Celtic fans have lost any credibility about the word 'fenian' when there's things like this sung.

edit: And no, I'm not condoning the singing of songs containing 'fenian b******', but since Peppa Pig asked...

Eirebear wrote: »

See the thing that gets me, a quick look around Rangers forums, or a chat with the vast majority of Rangers fans you meet in the street and you'll find that there is a genuine anger towards the idiots who rolled out the old party tunes yesterday.

Completely agree - the point is, though, that there is not the same anger coming from the club itself.
I've worked with a lot of Rangers fans down the years - I've yet to meet a six fingered one.
I don't expect the fans to have to offer apologies - that is up to Green and he hasn't done that yet, a fact that I'm sure a lot of Rangers fans are not impressed with either.

I've yet to meet a celtic fan who would regard themselves as a fenian never mind a 'fenian b*****d!:)

Apart from the usual nutters that is, much like the ones acccused of singing 'that' song:P

I see Neil Lennon managed to shut up about Rangers for at least a few weeks

He wasn't asked about Rangers

Andy Little Great throughball and good composure.

Woeful defending from a free kick and from a free header Stirling equalise. Six minutes after the turn around

Jarrod wrote: »

Cheers for the update BBE, I had a stream but it's packed it in.

Your not missing anything mate we have went right off the boil

The commission appointed by the Scottish Premier League to investigate alleged undisclosed payments by Rangers will not strip the club of any titles.

More detail is expected when the written decision is published at noon.

Lord Nimmo Smith has chaired the commission, which was appointed to decide if the company that formerly ran the club broke league rules.

Should Rangers be found in breach, other sanctions may be applied but there will be no stripping of titles.

The investigation relates to the period during which Rangers operated employee benefits trusts that were also the subject of a long-running tax tribunal.

HM Revenue and Customs had claimed the scheme, which was used to make £47.65m in payments to players and staff in the form of tax-free loans, was illegal.

Rangers disputed this and a First Tier Tax Tribunal ruled the scheme did not breach tax law.

HMRC has subsequently appealed to an Upper Tier Tax Tribunal.

Rangers won the SPL five times after initiating EBTs for players.

And there we have it, the old company fined 250k.

@BBCAlLamont: The judgement from Lord Nimmo Smith's independent commission will say no unfair competitive advantage was gained on the field.

'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, nor
did the non-disclosure have the effect that any of the registered players were ineligible
to play, and for this and other reasons no sporting sanction or penalty should be
imposed upon Rangers FC;'

Doesn't get any clearer than this.

Jelle1880 wrote: »

Puma new kit sponsor, brilliant news.

Pretty sure a couple of German clubs have Puma and the strips look good

ColeTrain wrote: »

I never expected to see titles stripped but that token fine will obviously never be paid along with the many other creditors.

It's a bit of a joke though, what is to stop say.. Hibs running up a huge bill buying players, winning a few trophies and then setting up a new company where they might be back playing SPL football within a few years - after the inevitable liquidation. They could then claim they won the trophies fairly and it's all apart of their history, even though they would be playing in the same division with clubs their "old club" owed money. Seems like a shi*e enough system.

It might even be interesting if the SPL/SFA decided to take a good look into the running of the other clubs in it as no one would want something untoward to come out in the years to come. I am sure the clubs wouldn't mind