Tom English has been performing some financial gymnastics for Irish podcast Off The Ball to explain the Liquidation Lie. Fortunately he wasn’t wearing a BBC Scotland leotard at the time.
With both The Scotsman and BBC Scotland, English has been one of the chief cheerleaders for The Lie, realising that without the O** F*** his ability to earn a living is virtually wiped out.
Affectionately known as House Paddy with the state broadcaster he will go to any lengths to avoid the issues of 2012 when Her Majesty rejected a CVA leaving 276 creditors high and dry as the liquidation process began.
Allan McGregor, Kyle Lafferty, wee Naisy, young Fleckie, Steven Whittaker and others walked away leaving the Scottish media to pick up the pieces and recreate the O** F*** jigsaw for a club playing at Annan, Peterhead, Elgin and Montrose.
Instructed by media moguls like James Trayor, BBC Scotland were first in line with English fully versed up alongside Kenny Macintyre and Alasdair Lamont as they obeyed the script from Charles Green, Dave King and others.
?? “They want their cake and eat it” @TEnglishSport on Rangers only holding onto the parts of their history they want to hold onto.
?? “They cannot wash their hands of what happened before”
Full @teamthirtythree Podcast ?https://t.co/2q7IZ6dpf7 pic.twitter.com/vv7K6g8e2o
— Off The Ball (@offtheball) February 17, 2022
What I would say is that Rangers left an awful lot of debt behind and that debt, some of it, much of it, I don’t know how much hasn’t been paid, em, so I think they will never do it.
It’s like they want their cake and eat it, you know what I mean? Yes we are Rangers, we have 55 titles but the Rangers that ran up all the debt and torched some of that debt, that’s not us.
You know, I can understand when people say you know it is a new club (rolls eyes) and all the rest of it. I, I, I, I, I, I looks at Rangers and I see the same supporters, same beliefs (rolls eyes). Em, same club but they cannot wash their hands of what happened before.
I know that it was bad people that took over that club. I know that none of the Rangers people now want, or fans want any of those people in that club- once they’d figured out what sort of people they were- but that is part of it.
That is part of it, if you want to say that you have 55 titles, that is part of their history and some of that stuff is still to be mopped up.
You know I don’t know how much debt remains from all of that but I think that is troubling, all of that is troubling.
On one hand they say ‘we have our history’ and I’m perfectly cool with that, absolutely cool with that but you also have all this stuff, what are you going to do about that? All those businesses that didn’t get paid.
276 of them are still waiting on BDO to complete the liquidation of the club that died in June 2012.
The really interesting thing to take from this email, is the collaboration in fabricating a narrative to get a point across.
It’s all staged.“Tom English has said he’ll have a pop at Paul Murray… Scotsman used his comments on the back page with our responses ie. irrelevant.” pic.twitter.com/UQz9KDfDZQ
— Lint (@Zeshankenzo) August 20, 2019
Dave Murray sold Rangers to Craig Whyte for £1 in May 2011, presumably the former billionaire is the bad person that English was referring to. At that time English was writing for The Scotsman, championing the cause of the Rangers owner even after he was ditched by the Daily Record.
English seems keen to try and restore his links to the Irish media but after the resignation of Pat Whelan from the Irish Rugby Union it is unlikely that his ability to report on egg-chasing will be in much demand.
Yet the Scottish press censors any mention of all of this.
People noting the injustice of using insolvency (and SPFL side-letters) to lessen the consequences of decades of cheating are cast as eccentrics.
It’s a forbidden subject in the sports pages of McPravda.— Rangers Tax-Case (@rangerstaxcase) February 18, 2022
How has a sh*te Irish rugby journalist become one of the loudest voices for anything to do with Scottish football ?
Errrr,look at look at Murray and the French Fellow , Fellow at the big semi , screened by media at ownn Marseille semi fur the big CUP , what a semi it wis a semi yae that semi , Did Twenty Twelve bigin or or er begin there
Errrr,look at look at Murray and the French Fellow , Fellow at the big semi , screened by media at ownn Marseille semi fur the big CUP , what a semi it wis a semi yae that semi , Did Twenty Twelve bigin or or er begin there
FFS! He actually gets paid for that? He is meant to be a sports journalist, working in Scotland, talking about THE biggest issue in our game and couldn’t deliver one meaningful fact in that piece. How has he got so far in his profession and how is he still there? Is that the best there is? Deary me.
Every time he opens his gub we’re reminded of why he’s known as Uncle Tom English.