‘Couldn’t happen to a nicer guy’ ‘club who were at the fiddle’ ‘pack of cards’ no sympathy for double whammy Neil McCann

There wasn’t much signs of sympathy for Neil McCann as his personal life and financial issues were splashed across the front of the Scottish Sun.

Divorce as many will know is a costly business, when it comes along at the same time as a tax bill you’ve been dodging for 20 years it takes on a whole new meaning.

The former starlet from Port Glasgow couldn’t have imagined what lay in front of him when he got up on stage to singalong with Donald Findlay at the Rangers Social Club in 1999. Soon after the vice-chairman resigned in disgrace with McCann’s life going into a slow downwards spiral.

That Rangers contract and side letter didn’t count for much in 2012 when the club went into liquidation, five years later the Supreme Court in London ruled that Dave Murray’s scam was disguised remuneration. Income Tax, National Insurance, penalties and interest are due on the sum.

McCann may be getting the Double Whammy of a divorce as well but the tax demands will be shared by many of his former Ibrox team-mates and media friends such as Billy Dodds, Alex Rae, Kris Boyd, Steven Thompson, Barry Ferguson and Alex McLeish. Even Murray was in on it.

With the public purse paying out billions during a pandemic it looks like HMRC are stepping up their game to recover past tax debts.

The SFA and SPFL will allow McCann to keep his medals but as the debts of the past are repaid those pieces of metal will provide little comfort from his distant playing days.

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