Channel 4 newsman Alex Thomson has published a worrying tweet claiming that there will be no SFA action regardless of the outcome of The Big Tax Case which has reached the Supreme Court.
Thomson is one of the few journalists outside of Scotland to have taken an interest in the story which involves numerous rule breaches by the old Rangers club covering a period of more than a decade.
Making payments to players which weren’t declared to the SFA and SPL would appear to be a breach in regulations but it seems that no-one in the Scottish game will tackle the issue in the same way that they’ve treated Dundee United and Dunfermline’s Development League side fielding ineligible players.
It seems the Scottish FA say Rangers will not be stripped of titles whatever Supreme Court’s Big Tax Case verdict might be.
— alex thomson (@alextomo) May 11, 2017
In 2012 the SPL ordered an enquiry under Bill Nimmo Smith to investigate the dual contract used at Ibrox from July 1998 when the SPL was created. Incredibly Nimmo Smith decided that the enquiry would only look at contracts from November 2000 overlooking the contracts of Tore Andre Flo and Ronald de Boer which the club had admitted guilt to in the wee tax case.
Under the big tax case the club has admitted their guilt in the EBT’s set up for Nacho Novo, Dado Prso and three others. The remaining cases are currently being considered by the Supreme Court.
Should the football authorities, which are made up of every club in the country, decide not to take action on over a decade of industrial scale financial doping it’s likely that there will be a fans revolt similar to the 2012 attempt to parachute the Sevco club into the SPL then the First Division of the Scottish Football League.