The BBC pundits that received Rangers EBT’s
Steven Thompson and Billy Dodds are among the small army of pundits paid for their opinions by the state broadcaster.
Dodds has been a regular on television and radio over the years and can often be found covering three matches a week for the BBC. Last weekend he covered the Hearts v Hibs Scottish Cup Final on the Saturday followed by the Airdrie United v Dumbarton match the following day.
Thompson is a newer name to the world of punditary regularly covering matches for the BBC alongside his playing commitments with St Mirren.
Having experienced administration at Dundee and being forced to accept a fraction of his assistant manager contract from a CVA Dodds has been able to provide a useful insight into the mechanics and ramifications of being in administration.
One question relating to Rangers has never been asked of either player? Did they receive payments into an EBT?
The Employee Benefit Trust phrase has become widely known to Scottish football fans over the last 12 months with BBC Sport spending many hours debating the problems facing Rangers and threatening their survival.
Crucial to the issue is the EBT matter or the Big Tax Case as it’s known.
Whatever Craig Whyte, Duff and Phelps or Charlie Green try to do for Rangers the shadow of the big tax case threatens to scupper any hopes they have for the club.
What better way to cut to the core of the matter than to ask Dodds or Thompson whether they had received payments through an EBT?
With two former players from the period under question on board the BBC Scotland missed the chance to gain first hand knowledge of the main problem hanging over Rangers.
According to last night’s ‘Rangers: The Men Who Sold The Jerseys’ programme Dodds had £190,000 paid into his EBT with Thompson receiving £485,000.
Sky Sports pundit Neil McCann received £500,000 into an EBT according to last night’s programme.
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