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Bitter Boyd tries to rewrite the liquidation of 2012

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Kris Boyd is still bitter about the events of 2012 as he attempts to rewrite history.

The former Portland Timbers goal-getter was having another moan about Hearts and league reconstruction in today’s edition of The Sun when he took a stroll down Memory Lane.

As the beneficiary of Dave Murray’s disguised remuneration scheme Boyd played a part in the toxic web of Ibrox a decade ago that scared off numerous True Blue investors from taking over the club.

Despite the mounting tax debts Craig Whyte tossed a pound coin to Dave Murray in May 2011. Nine months later the club was in administration, just over a year later with no rescue bids around HMRC refused a CVA putting the club into liquidation.

The SPL and SFA lost a member club but Boyd chooses to take a different view, in The Sun he writes:

I have to laugh, though. All the talk of operating for the benefit of everyone in Scottish football cracks me up, it really does.

I realised in 2012 everyone was in it for themselves when they sent the biggest club in this country to the bottom tier.

The new club skipped the Lowland League to join the SFL in the then Third Division. The old club is still being liquidated with 267 companies including newsagents, florists and taxi firms waiting for a pennies in the pound pay-off.

In 2015 Boyd teamed up with Kenny Miller but after scoring just three goals in their failed bid to win promotion from The Championship he was returned to Kilmarnock.

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