Rangers have always had their own rules!!! Anyway Celtic quick news and the association are both running the story , Salmond's interference yesterday could have impact on Scottish teams playing in Europe next season, uefa / FIFA rules explicitly prevent governments interfering in football and asking fans to e mail uefa
"If people want to point the finger if - and it's a big if - we win the title then I will have plenty to say about devaluing titles, don't worry about that" Too right Neil - dare them to raise it again.
He finished it off with , it's being going on for a number of years and has affected title run ins , well said Neil , least our club is not going to take it lightly , think of the champions league money we've been cheated out of
Cheers Reb for the link. I am actually quite glad somebody raised it because i believe it will make Neil Lennon, and the team, even more determined for the rest of the season and make sure that they don`t take the foot off the gas. Onwards and Upwards.
From the Daily Mail......... I didn't realise until I had clicked the link. Don't worry, I am as disgusted with myself as you are with me. No mercy! Strip 'financial dopers' Rangers of their titles, says Lennon By BRIAN MARJORIBANKS Last updated at 11:26 PM on 17th February 2012 Comments (13) Share Celtic boss Neil Lennon will call for Rangers to be retrospectively stripped of their ‘tainted titles and trophies’ should the crisis-stricken Ibrox club be found guilty of ‘financial doping’. The Parkhead manager cited drug-cheat cyclist Alberto Contador as a sporting precedent, with the shamed Spaniard earlier this month having been stripped of his 2010 Tour de France and 2011 Giro D’Italia titles after testing positive for the banned substance clenbutorol. Lennon is awaiting with interest the results of the tribunal into Rangers’ use of Employee Benefit Trusts (EBTs) between 2001 and 2010, which could land the Ibrox club a £75million tax bill. And the Northern Irishman warned if it is proved Rangers ‘cheated’ him out of titles as a player in 2003 and 2005 - as well as Gordon Strachan’s team in 2009 and Tony Mowbray’s side in 2010 - by spending money they could not afford, he will be pursuing the matter with vigour. The title? I'll believe it when I see it: Celtic manager Neil Lennon ‘A journalist recently used the expression ‘financial doping’ (in reference to Rangers) and, for me, doping is a sporting term for cheating,’ Lennon said. ‘And, in athletics, if you are caught doping, you are banned. Alberto Contador got stripped of his Tour de France win in 2010, so there are precedents there. ‘If it has had a direct effect on me in my playing days, I will come out and say something at that time. ‘As it is just now, it hasn’t been proved. But they (Rangers) are in administration for a reason and I am sure you guys (the media) will get to the bottom of it. ‘It’s not my business, not our club’s business, but it will be my business if it has affected me as a player or previous managers and has denied us titles and trophies in the past. ‘It’s all hearsay and hot air at the minute but, until the findings are out, we as a club won’t comment any more on it.’ Sympathetic ear: Lennon aware of the task Ally McCoist (above) faces It was put to Lennon that stripping the Ibrox club of their titles and cup wins retrospectively will not give Celtic the elation that comes with winning the SPL at the time. He said: ‘It wouldn’t but it doesn’t mean to say that we won’t be angry about it. ‘And if we do win the title this season and people want to say it has been undermined (by Rangers being deducted 10 points and going into administration), I will have plenty to say about devalued titles over the years. That’s if we win the SPL, by the way. ‘I have great sympathy for my counterpart (Ally McCoist), having to go through what he is going through at the minute when it has nothing to do with him. ‘I have sympathy for the players too, obviously. And it’s a really tough time for a lot of people at the club but, while I have sympathy for them, I have no sympathy for a lot of other people involved.’ Lennon admitted the club’s supporters were unhappy with both First Minister Alex Salmond and Prime Minister David Cameron’s pleas that HMRC should work with Rangers to help them out of their crisis. He believes the Celtic fans are left wondering why there was not such a clamour to save their team when it was on the brink of going bust 18 years ago. He said: ‘There is more disquiet among the supporters (than the club). I think their view on it is that there wasn’t much help coming our way in 1994, so why should other clubs be treated differently.’ Troubled times: Ibrox men have fallen 14 points behind Celtic His comments came just 24 hours after Celtic issued a stinging rebuke to Salmond for claiming the Parkhead outfit could not prosper without Rangers. If the Ibrox club do go bust, Lennon admits he would miss the rivalry and he claimed there was hypocrisy among people now claiming the Old Firm rivalry is good for Scottish football, with the first anniversary approaching of last March’s ‘Shame Game’ when he and McCoist famously clashed on the touchline. Lennon said: ‘The club made its statement yesterday and I endorse that. We are talking hypothetically here because the administrator says there is a good chance liquidation will be unlikely. ‘But it (Rangers) would be a loss to football, that’s for sure. ‘The thing we would all miss (if Rangers die) are the games. World football would miss that because it is the ultimate derby game. ‘But the ironic thing is that last year we had the “shame game” and everyone was coming out and saying we don’t need the Old Firm. Now everyone’s saying we do need it. They can’t make up their minds.’
They didn't use ebt's last year. So they just stopped 15 in a row....and they never even knew. I am of the opinion they should be ****ed out of the league for not paying any tax this season. It is cheating, plain and simple.
Celtic should look at legal action as they could have denied us access to vital champions league money. Hopefully we would get a big enough say on the cva.
If we win the title by more than 10 points and Rangers finish second they shoul be given back the points and have them deducted from the start of next season. Anything else lets them away with their criminal behaviour.
It's great to see our club is making an issue out of this , financial doping as Lennon calls it ,Rangers fans are using man utd 600 million debt as their example they were playing fairly !!! Now they've gone into administration it's obvious the 30 + million Smith got to spend was cooking the books.
