Mad Phil, the tea lady and digestive

U6621 - done already

Heading towards the 30,000 mark

Suggest everyone that agrees signs the online petition to have the HMRC leaks investigated.
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then you can add them to your list.

Archie better watch oot if he is criticising mad Phil, the all-of-a-sudden-Irishman! Archie's a pensioner is he not? MaGooeybrain has previous in that department. Watch yer back, Archie!

Don't see the bold Archie working for the beeb anytime soon.

Top post, IE.

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Any chance you can post the text from the article? I can't access it without registering which I can't be ar$ed doing.

Tried to Cruising, but apparently the article "contains one or more banned words" ? For the life of me I just can't work out what they are.......;(

http://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/ltd/the-celtic-football-and-athletic-company

THE CELTIC FOOTBALL AND ATHLETIC COMPANY LIMITED

Company Registration No.: SC153534
Incorporation Date: 11 Oct 1994
18 Years old

Tried it there cruising but won't let me

Tried spacing out the anti-celtic, anti-catholic wording but didn't help.

the most pertinent parts...


the wearer of the biggest tackety boots of all was the BBC.

It seemed so sequential, ranging from the odd editing of a McCoist interview which certainly was not intended to portray him as soothsayer of the month, right through various programmes which suggested it was open-season on Rangers, since they had no case to answer.

At the crux of all this was their award-winning documentary delving into what they perceived to be the murky depths of possible illicit payments at Ibrox. With respect to all the other media organs wading into Rangers, this programme was the real game-changer.

I have not met one person yet who came away from that programme not concluding that Murray was up to no good. Even though it performed a valuable public exercise in exposing the dastardly Craig Whyte for what he truly is, at its core was the reference to Murray and EBTs. For, without the Damoclean tax sword hanging over Murray's head on this issue, Whyte would not have materialised in the first place.

There is little doubt that views on Rangers hardened considerably on the back of a programme which allowed viewers to interpret inferences in their own way. That style was in fact a subtle and nuanced incrimination. The simple demonstration of the convoluted system of paying players by whatever means and the programme's passing on of evidence to appropriate authorities created that very sense of exposure of duplicity. As a piece of television it truly merited its award but, at the same time, whether through unintended consequences or not, it hardened views among Scottish Premier League members who were to vote on Rangers' future some weeks later and leant a credence to the word "cheating", effectively helping to move its province from the outlandish websites right into the heart of football discussion at the highest level.

Rangers were thoroughly discredited by this programme even though, if it was motivated by a presumption of guilt on Murray's part, that has now been blown out of the water. I hope the pendulum of journalistic impartiality still exists there in what is one of the most valuable of public institutions.

To ensure that the pendulum of impartiality in the BBC's splendid new building is still pointing towards the centre of the earth and hasn't swung too far one way or the other, out of public interest, perhaps the same skilled people should put together a documentary dealing with the following questions:

Why were Rangers singled out for such forensic examination when other parallel schemes existed in other institutions?

Why did it take such an inordinate time for the tax tribunal to come to a decision when it was universally known that a club could have been on the verge of extinction?

Would an examination of alleged leaks by HMRC serve any useful purpose?

All this could not be done, of course, before the next tribunal chaired by Lord Nimmo in January, to which there should be no real objection and about which I have already been told by the same bloggers mentioned before that Rangers will have titles stripped and be forced to make reparations for the money they were awarded as a result, which could put them out of business before the end of this season.

So already the verdict is in. Who am I to question that? But, in preparation for an adjudication that might end up in another flash flood of surprise, those who have made up their minds already should have sandbag protection to hand.