By rights, if he's found guilty he will fail the fit and proper criteria...But the Football League will fudge it...as in the Ken Bates fiasco...

Be a different matter should you return to the premiership with Mandy in charge, though.

Morning Rich Owl,

Tax avoidance is not illegal - tax evasion is.

Chunders

Sparty, you've put 'should' instead of 'when'. Don't mean to be pedantic.

Rich, not really sure about this but HMRC are determined to make a stand against football at the moment. On the other side of the coin, if you're loaded you seem to get away with a slap on the wrist in our society. Whereas if you or me owed them £20 the bailiffs would be knocking before you could open the notification letter.

^I wouldn't worry about SWFC as we are now a debt free saleable asset with more going for us than most when the Oligarchs, yanks and arabs want a plaything.

if he's found guilty he will face a MASSIVE fine to go along with our MASSIVE club. Morning Sparty, how's the dingle today?

So consensus so far is that the outcome of trial has no direct bearing on the club, correct?

Seems odd, given that the FL are coming under pressure from the EPL to conform to similar rules regarding club ownership following the Ken Bates saga. I hope they don't decide to make an example of us. The destabilising effects of the court cases last season were obvious - we could do with avoiding that again

Don't worry everyone.
We are far too MASSIVE now for anything to come of it

I think FA 'Rules' and the Crown's tax laws are quite distinct from one another. Tax laws are fairly clear cut and Fa 'rules' are like a bunfight.

Mandy's error was made when he was at Portsmouth. From my understanding it is Mr. Redknapp who is under the biggest cosh. Mandy handed over money to Redknapp so I think it is implied that he (Mandy) is part of an attempt by Mr. Redknapp to hide an emolument paid directly to him by Mandy. It transpires , allegedly, that neither cash transfer appears on any accounts related to the club.

The odds are that Mandy will get a slapped wrist and Harry will have the chance to pay the calculated tax on these alleged 'payments' for services to Portsmouth at the time.


In essence, it involves larger sums than your average plumber deals with on a daily basis - who readily prefers to be paid in cash by lonely widowers who get their drains unblocked.


Mandy will get off the charge easily by offering a few massive handbags to the jury and a noteable amount of massive brown paper envelopes to be circulated to a few select beneficiaries a la Jack Warner and Sepp Blatter, allegedly.

Dear Mr.Shibboleth30

Your last paragraph - there's many a true word spoken in jest, allegedly.

Kind Regards,

Chunders

Exactly Shibb!

Rich business men don't go to jail and they still collect their $200

as brought up before tax evasion and tax avoidance are the same thing but the only difference is the social class of the perpretator. If you're poor you're going to jail. If you're rich you get a bonus for being savvy.

When have you seen a dodgy rich man go to jail? Bernia Madoff doesn't count because the only reason he went to jail is because he stole from the rich and not the poor and this simply will not be tolerated by the top few who rig this shatty system..

So MM will be fine...

Dear Mr. Chunderbuxton,

In response to your earlier letter, I concur that there is indeed a seed of truth in some alleged allegations. In no part is it a small seed but a seed of the most massive variety - the fact is that any handbag produced by Sheffield Wednesday will be a massive handbag. Additionally all brown envelopes in the Sheffield Wednesday postroom are specially made to be massive; ensuring all massive missives issued are suitably carriaged to their destination.

Sincerely,


Mr Shibboleth30

I had no idea that handbags were so popular in S6 - it explains a lot really....

Yours aye,

Chunders

Chunderbuxton (U2015)
posted 7 minutes ago
I had no idea that handbags were so popular in S6 - it explains a lot really....

Yours aye,

Chunders
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I recon you should get your handbags out instead of taking your shoes off in the car park. Much more comfortable, Old Bean

Best wishes from One of the MASSIVE

Thanks

The question would be..

..how much are these court procedings going to cost to reclaim the alledged tax owed on a transaction of 180k..

.. it would appear to be a warning gun shot, fired across the bows of the good ship lollipop

Chunders, handbags are less common in S2 because they are difficult to carry when you have trotters for hands. They aren't known as 'trotterbags' are they now?

To quote Louis Vuitton, " I didn't make my bags for piggettes to carry etc. etc. "

Simples

Miss Piggy had an handbag..

..but she was a muppet with an hand up her backside

The thing is why is it going to court? these things are usually settled upon receipt of a brown envelope.

The middle man was cut out

Wot ? the postman?

It's this internet banking thingy and plastic cards..

.. they brought it in years ago, to save on trouser repairs caused by loose change making holes in yer pockets..

..it's economic, but put thousands of trouser repairers on the dole