The lack of Scottish Football media reporting of Manchester City being charged by the English Premier League for financial misdemeanors (charges above) demonstrates how exposed Celtic are under this investigation. There’s a lot of hiding & suppression of stories going on. Normally the usual rags would be all over this issue. Looks like EPL, from … Continue reading
Such a Parcel of Rogues in a Nation Rabbie Burns Big Jim was no one’s fool, he owned the town’s only diamond mineHe made his usual entrance looking so dandy and so fineWith his bodyguards and silver cane and every hair in placeHe took whatever he wanted to and he laid it all to waste … Continue reading
In a previous post we highlighted the revisionism of several of the Celtic annual accounts after the Fergus McCann takeover in March 1994. One of the main items was Unpaid Payroll taxes which were detailed by Mr McCann in the Celtic 1994 accounts: In the notes the figure of £170,485 is given, in the first … Continue reading
In the previous post it was highlighted Celtic’s deception in investigating the impact of the numerous child abusers that existed between Celtic FC and Celtic Boys Club whereby the board instead of secretly investigating contingencies should have been keeping the AIM stock market informed. Another period ripe for investigation are the years 1993 and 1994 … Continue reading
What would the ‘Sporting Integrity’ mob say about a football team using foreign loan players, evading PAYE/NIC to the HMRC then getting out of paying that bill: Between 2005 – 2010, Hearts used loan players from Lithuanian club, FBK Kaunas to play in the Scottish division. In 2012, HMRC warned Hearts it wanted £1.75m for the … Continue reading
In researching how HMRC is starting to handle footballer Image Rights I came across this oral testimony from an HMRC employee at the UK Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee hearing into High Net Worth Individuals & HMRC held on the 7th December 2016. The comments are firstly by Jon Thompson, Chief Executive and Permanent Secretary, HMRC … Continue reading
Two High Profile Legal Cases involving Barcelona in Last Week On the 4 July 2016 there should have been fireworks from The Offshore Game when the EU Competition Commissioner issuing a declaration that Spanish clubs including Real Madrid and Barcelona had to repay State Aid which was incompatible with fair competition: But what was heard … Continue reading
Liquidations, Unemployment, Polluted Communities & The Public Purse Peter Lawwell’s fingerprints and those of a cabal of former Directors have now been found in the coal dust of three Scottish Coal companies plus another company, Monktonhall Colliery, all of which ended up in administration/liquidated. This was after the profits & assets were stripped out in the good times. The latest liquidation, on … Continue reading
Ian Livingston [Flying the Union Flag] The Independent Non-Executive Director of Celtic PLC is described on the Celtic website: In his biography from Bloomberg’s Businessweek: ‘Mr. Ian Paul Livingston, B.A, A.C.A. has been the Chief Executive Officer of BT Group plc, the holding company of BT Global Services since June 1, 2008. Mr. Livingston serves … Continue reading
Brian Duffy The Independent Non-Executive Director of Celtic PLC is described on the Celtic website, http://www.celticfc.net/corporate_boardofdirectors : In The Scotsman on 30th January 2012, Duffy was lauded as a success: ‘Being in the right place at the right time. That’s what Professor Brian Duffy, president and chief operating officer of Polo Ralph Lauren Europe and a … Continue reading