Strathclyde Police have warned Rangers that they will call off the March 25 clash with Celtic if they don’t pay up outstanding bills.
Rangers owe the force over £50,000 prior to going into administration as well as £17,000 from last Saturday’s match against Kilmarnock.
That match went ahead after administrators Duff & Phelps assured the police that they would be paid but so far no cheque has arrived.
Rangers are due to face Hearts next Saturday but unless the police are paid in advance they will pull the plug on fixtures denying the club their main means of raising cash
“We won’t police another match at Ibrox until we have had payment for the one that has just been,” warned Strathclyde Chief Constable Stephen House
“Legally they can’t go ahead and have the match, with us agreeing to police it, if they don’t know they can pay us.”
Rangers owed Strathclyde Polices £51,882 at the time they went into administration with that figure unlikely to be settled.
While a normal SPL match costs around £17,000 a derby match costs the host club closer to £50,000 to police.
Rangers have already been deducted 10 points by the SPL for going into administration but it’s unclear if there are any punishments or sanctions that can be applied for being unable to host a match due to lack of police cover.
Hearts, Dunfermline, Dundee United and Inverness Caley Thistle are all owed money by Rangers, before the December 28 clash at Celtic Park Celtic insisted on being paid in advance before issuing Rangers with tickets.
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With regard to monies owed to Dunfermline, Dundee Utd and ICT surely there is a simple solution. Next month sees the latest Rangers v Celtic match. Presumably Celtic will sell their allocation of tickets to 8000 or so fans and then deposit the money in Rangers’ bank account.
Well instead of doing this why doesn’t Celtic simply give the monies owed, plus interest, to these other teams from the ticket sales. Anything left over can then go to Rangers’ coffers. And as for Lee Wallace, surely he should be returned to Hearts to play or be sold as they choose. After all, if you don’t keep up your mortgage payments you loose your house.
Why should it be any different for a football team?
Well said Garry, I think that if they can’t afford to hire police for matches, they should forfeit those matches with a 3-0 loss until such times as they can acquire monies to pay their way.
Could this be the build up to not playing the title winning match at Ibrox, thus saving face for the hordes and match officials.
dont know what would be more embarassing for them though kenny, us winning in there midden or not being able to host the game!! either one will make me happy!
Aye, this pantomime can carry on forever, it just gets better with each passing day.
Off Topic, you have to laugh at old Wally Smith demanding to know where all Rangers’ money has gone; you would think he should know having spent it all
Garry, monies regarding gate receipts, Sounds like a fair one. However Lee Wallace would be a different matter as it was Rangers who broke the contract between the two clubs and not Lee Wallace.
Clubs don’t own players in the way you would own a house or a car. As soon as Hearts agreed the transfer to Rangers and Lee Wallace signed a contract with Rangers his prior contract with hearts would become null and void.
So no matter what (even if Ranger release Wallace), Rangers would still owe Hearts the outstanding debt. It would be down to the player where he went next if the inevitable (fingers crossed) happens.
That’s fine don’t play it, give us the points and I can turn my ticket money into beer money sounds like a plan and we don’t give that stinky rotten knuckle daggers goat abusing club any cash, job done. Hail hail jelly and ice cream
RE: “Tainted Titles”, this phrase was coined by myself with regards Rangers, i have been using it for AT LEAST 2 years to refer to Rangers and their Tainted Titles handed to them by Refs and the cheats at the SFA.
Don’t allow Ra Gers to try stealing another Tim phrase.
Hail Hail
Wee note to mark hately keep up the good work. Please release your journalistic master-pieces when Duff and Phelphs are having a media free day. That`ll be once a week, your work keeps the smiles coming. G.I.R.F.U.Y
It’s time the FSFA and FSLP (and I don’t mean French though some might class the primary initial of my
abbreviation as being of that country’s language)stand up for the football clubs they are supposed to represent and protect.
Mind you, if the directors of these clubs are in bed (I hope nothing untoward goes on there) with der hunny bears and don’t want to piss on their sheets, I guess the heed haunchos can claim there’s nothing needs done. What an *rse Celtic would have if the roles were reversed.
They would quickly be turned to (black) ‘n blue by the jack boots of officialdom!
H H
We will be champions by that time any way! I can see rangers dropping loads of points in their next three games while we win ours. We need to get the league finished as quickly as possible as the quicker we win the less of them showing up to their games.
Remember this is their only income stream, if about 10,000 are showing up for the last three home games and none of them are paying customers (all season books) they could be in even worse trouble.
Also, no tickets for them for the last game against us at Celtic Park unless they are paid for in advance and a security deposit for prospective damage is also paid.