What's Benind SPL'S £500,000 Cash Claim to Rangers

[djbroxybear 660]

HANDS up anyone who believes the Scottish Premier League’s attempt to squeeze £500,000 out of Rangers to pay the Lord Nimmo Smith Tribunal and Celtic’s lawyers, Harper MacLeod, may well yet turn out to appear to be blackmail?

Yes, I thought so!

For such is the reputation of the Scottish Premier League, so low in public esteem is it held and such is the public perception of its chief executive Neil Doncaster, that the word blackmail was on the lips of a number of people who contacted me after I lifted the lid on the latest ploy from the Scottish Premier League and Celtic lawyers Harper Macleod to hound Rangers in a witch hunt to which there appears no end.

So, why blackmail? And what form would this pernicious sort of crime take? If it is, indeed, such a tactic from the SPL and Celtic’s lawyer’s Harper Macleod.

The general consensus is it is all to do with the formation of an SPL 2 and the belief that this was always the Scottish Premier League’s priority plan, despite an apparent willingness to enter into talks with the Scottish Football League with a view to a merger. That, many think, was a mere tactic.

For remember, there was never any possibility of the SPL giving up control of any new body, for no matter what the leagues may be called, the company name would remain as the SPL.

Now, as more and more clubs from the Scottish Football League’s First Division, most volubly Hamilton Accies and Falkirk, break cover and talk about the need to get away from the SFL and join the SPL’s preferred package of an SPL 2, one thing becomes obvious. The need for the SPL to get Rangers into an SPL 2 to make the financial model work.

For without Rangers the SPL, whose sponsorship deal runs out in May, will find it hard to get a new sponsorship deal. And impossible, without the blue chip presence of Rangers, to get the sort of sponsorship money needed to cough up the cash the Neil Doncaster-Peter Lawwell-SPL Axis is attempting to bribe such short sighted clubs as Hamilton Accies and Falkirk with to try and make them join and SPL 2.

Without Rangers it would also be impossible for the Neil Doncaster-Peter Lawwell SPL-Axis to get a new Sky TV deal, worth the sort of money needed to fulfil the promises of bribes of an extra £350,000 a year to the clubs in the new SPL2.

In short, without Rangers in any new SPL 2, clubs such as Hamilton Accies and Falkirk would be signing up to a deal with the Neil Doncaster-Peter Lawwell-SPL-Axis which that Axis could not possibly deliver.

Hence the need for the Neil Doncaster-Peter Lawwell-SPL Axis to get Rangers back in the fold as quickly as possible. It sticks in their craw, but they know they need Rangers. They know they need the Red, White and Blue Pound.

Which is why there are many who believe that the latest trick up the sleeve of the devious Neil Doncaster-Peter Lawwell-SPL Axis is to offer Rangers a short cut back to the top flight by inviting them to join the SPL2, giving Rangers the chance to slash the period of time they will be exiled from the big time by a year.

But only if Charles Green coughs up the £500,000 that I revealed Celtic’s lawyers Harper Macleod had sent a letter demanding Rangers pay, to cover their costs and the costs of the Lord Nimmo Smith Tribunal.

Were this sort of scenario to emerge, were this belief expressed to me by a number of people, to become confirmed, it would further reduce the public perception of the Neil Doncaster-Peter Lawwell-SPL Axis. If it is possible for this seemingly morally corrupt organisation to sink any of lower.

However, if this scenario is the Neil Doncaster-Peter Lawwell-SPL-Axis plot, then something seems to have been forgotten. Which is this. Charles Green has stated clearly, unequivocally - and often – that Rangers will not return to the SPL for as long as the band of bigots who sat on judgment on Rangers last summer remain and for as long as the SPL management structure remains in its present form.

On top of which, as I revealed yesterday, the Rangers chief executive has made it clear to Neil Doncaster in a stormy face to face confrontation at Hampden last week, that Hell will freeze over before Rangers pay the Celtic’s lawyers Harper Macleod for their failed attempt to strip Rangers of five titles.

That is a bill the Neil Doncaster-Peter Lawwell-SPL-Axis will have to foot. Just as that Axis will have to pay the fees of a High Court Judge and two eminent QCs.

[No.12 508]

I need that simplified

[cushynumber 25,178]

give us £500,000 and you can get into SPL2.

[AlCapone 7,678]

simples, blackmail to get us into SPL2

[elephants stoned 2,994]

It reads like Leggo, saying the sphell are trying to blackmail Green into joining sphell two with this bullshit 500k claim, however as theres no way in hell we have any obligation to pay that money the blackmail falls on its arse somewhat.

[Guardian 4,281]

I see it as more, stop making waves and we'll drop this claim.

Either that or claim it payable by oldco and announce they are taking it out of the cash they already hold.

They are bankrupt and desperate for cash now. It's no coincidence this arises now.

[cushynumber 25,178]

its also why they dont want us promoted into a second tier this year. Theres no point blackmailing someone into jumping for SPL2, if they already are in the second tier. Theres no carrot.

mmmm....the events of the last few weeks are starting to become a bit clearer.

[Henders82 546]

I may be confused but how can they blackmail us over something that we have absolutely no intention of paying?!?

Thay can't even do blackmail right!!!

[scarkev 3,540]

It could be blackmail under those circumstances or it could just be desperation in that they are rooked and can't afford to pay the legal fees despite being the ones who initiated the hearing!

[No.12 508]

FIFA need to step in here and find out what the fuck is going on in this country.

[Ozblue 4,332]

It could be blackmail under those circumstances or it could just be desperation in that they are rooked and can't afford to pay the legal fees despite being the ones who initiated the hearing!

It's both Kev...It's desperate blackmail

[Edmiston Drive 3,846]

This will test CG if they are tagging on that we get into spl2...............we have them hung,drawn and quartered if he stands by what he said.

[bigblueyonder 11,158]

They are crazy, this will go nowhere. They should actually read their own commisions statement..

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2013/feb/28/rangers-fine-spl-titles

The commision confirmed its earlier decision that newco Rangers could not be held responsible for any breach of rules by the oldco.

I'd agree with OP, there is some form of blackmail behind this.

[RockwellGers 14,822]

FIFA need to step in here and find out what the fuck is going on in this country.

Agree

The situation is far beyond ridiculous, the bias in beyond a joke.

Can't see it though. They seem to only do so if they think their rules are being undermined & prefer to let FAs sort out their own affairs

[Big Al 55 9,327]

Can't blackmail us on this. We simply refuse to play ball. What would happen then?

[VERITAS VOS LIBREBETS 3,370]

Take it aff the money you are withholding from us - ya theiving tramps.

Surely if you done this to another in society you would be in court?

Does the same laws not apply to the shpl?

Are they untouchable? if so then not a fit and proper organisation to hold office.

Cunts.

'There have been many pitfalls and obsticles along the way, there will be many to come, but there never has nor ever will be any surrender'

[Willger 14]

Trying to take the money from oldco could be a bit risky, bdo might have something to say about that.

[blueoutthedome 87]

What is the story with this mob they can't even come out and say if it is for the oldco to pay or the newco they have sent Scottish football back to the dark ages the hatred in our support against this Celtic backed agenda will last for generations and I can see no way back for us in Scottish football I hope Charles can get us out of this shit hole of a country.

[Alnic3856 358]

If this was true and Green got into bed with these bastards after what they tried to do to us then I'm afraid he would have to leave Rangers pretty fucking sharpish, do not overestimate your popularity Charles, the bears will turn on you like a pack of rabid dogs if you even consider this.

[The Prince of Denmark 10]

not wanting to get too pedantic here but is this not bribery rather than blackmail ????

[elephants stoned 2,994]

not wanting to get too pedantic here but is this not bribery rather than blackmail ????

If they were giving us 500k it would be a attempted bribe but as they are trying to extort 500k from us to give us a place in SPL2 which we dont even want, its a bad blackmail attempt.

[The Prince of Denmark 10]

If they were giving us 500k it would be a attempted bribe but as they are trying to extort 500k from us to give us a place in SPL2 which we dont even want, its a bad blackmail attempt.

ahhh extortion is the word!!! I bow to your superior knowledge of the queens English

[ritchieshearercaldow 22,275]

Why do the SPL believe they won?

Nimo cleared us of all the major points except a few side letters that in his opinion should have been registered.

It's like being charged with murder only to be found guilty of illegal parking.

And they now want us to pay costs?

I notice the DR are reporting that it's because Nimo found us guilty...........I'm fuckin confused

[FlippinEck 3,755]

At what point does going to SPL 2 benefit us if we are £500,000 out of pocket? I think I will stick with acheiving promotion to SPL 2 the fair and proper way thank you very much...

[Smile 26,624]

We should not be funding the corrupt SFA/SPL ever again.