RTC walks away

The ground-breaking Rangers Tax Case blog has gone into hibernation signing off a farewell post titled ‘Wrapping It All Up’.

Without any publicity the anonymous blog has set the pace over the last 18 months with a series of revelations that have been amazingly accurate without falling for it’s own publicity.

The identity of the author behind the blog remained elusive despite many alleged sightings with anonymity defended at all times when a high profile media career could easily have been launched.

The Guardian did manage an interview with RTC but all sources were jealously guarded without any compromise.

Within three months of joining the internet bampots RTC was described as being 99% crap by Craig Whyte when the Motherwell businesman was being feted as a billionaire.

One of the main strengths of the site was the quality of contributor it attracted with some very knowledgable posters adding to the tale with RTC rarely posting more than once a week.

RTC has now bowed out modestly summing up the situation that has escalated since February when Craig Whyte put Rangers into administration.

The last post states: “That Rangers were forced to liquidate, form a new club, and restart in SFL Division 3 is a fair outcome. The last remaining task is to ensure that the sporting records are adjusted to account for the 5 SPL titles, 4 Scottish Cups, and 6 Scottish League Cups won during the 11 years of paying players with money they did not have.

“Drastic player cuts, or insolvency, sometime in the 2006-08 period would have been a virtual certainty if Rangers had not been avoiding tax. It is worth emphasising that had Rangers paid these players the same net salaries during the EBT period of 2001-2011, their wage bill would have been almost £50m higher (unadjusted for inflation).

“That extra £50m would have had to have been paid by Lloyds / HBOS or a chainsaw taken to the playing squad. This is the value of the financial advantage gained prior to Craig Whyte taking over at Ibrox.”

RTC may have walked away but it’s place in Scottish football’s biggest ever story is assured with it’s departure as dramatic as it’s entry into the world of internet bapotery.