Dungolfin

According to Mystic Meg, Duff & Dufferer will continue the pretence of trying to save the club until the end of the season. Shortly after the season ends Rangers will go into liquidation and attempt to ditch all of their creditors. Whether they can do this Meg doesn't say as she's a psychic not a lawyer. However she does mention that the legal battles will run on for several years with most creditors ultimately receiving hee haw, including HMRC who will eventually get fed up as no one can work who owes what and several judges deliver inconclusive verdicts. Due to boredom and the continuing cost to the public purse the whole affair will be brushed under the carpet. Craig Whyte will never be seen in the country again. A consortium led by former Rangers directors will form a phoenix club which is allowed to keep the name Rangers and preserve the club's 'proud' history. This consortium will include a token representation from various fans groups (the fans representation will be the subject of in-fighting within 6 months, divided, marginalised and ditched after a couple of seasons). Rangers 2012 will apply for membership of the SPL. It's a safe bet that this will be granted in time for the new season with a laughable token points penalty for a few seasons in an attempt to placate the fans of other clubs and show that Rangers are being 'punished'. Rangers will be fined £20,000 by the SFA for contract irregularities and warned about future conduct. Normal service will be resumed.

I was hoping that the HMRC case which I understand was under oath might have sought evidence from players - maybe they did, I don't know. Are you sure? I was under the impression that if they've made undeclared payments to players then those players registrations be invalidated and are ineligible to play for the club. Given that Rangers have taken part in UEFA competitions then I'd suggest that they might be interested to know if Rangers have indeed fielded ineligible players. No?

Why not just ask the former players? Under oath, Mr. Cannigia/De Boer/Laudrup/Amoruso/Gattusso/Gascoigne how much were you paid by Rangers? What was the structure and terms of your payment? Now they may, or may not, come clean but perhaps with UEFA involved we might see some light shed on the situation.

What the letters will do, with respect to Rangers, is force the club and those in charge at this time to state 'on the record' that there were no hidden contracts. Should it then prove to be the case that there were indeed unlawful payments then the SFA can justifiably take action having given them an opportunity to come clean. I'd be interested to see if the SFA or indeed UEFA will contact former players now overseas and outwith the goldfish bowl such as Laudrup, Cannigia and De Boer to ask what they understood the situation to be. I suspect their view of 'discretionary payments' might be different to Sir David Murray's.

Excellent, but I suspect you're not really speaking for the majority here. Still I commend your unwavering stance.

You missed Mark Hateley on Channel 4 earlier then. He more or less said that the SFA should have conducted some background checks and stepped in to stop Craig Whyte. There have also been numerous comments on recent phone-ins along the same lines suggesting a groundswell among some Rangers fans desperate to point fingers at those outwith the Ibrox set-up. Quite probably the same voices attacking sections of the media for not having investigated Whyte. I do agree with you that it's pretty weak for the SFA to have come out after the fact and declare Whyte a 'not fit and proper person'. But then their weak position may be simply a symptom of Scottish football and the Scottish media being dominated by two clubs. Go against them at your peril. So what do you suggest the SFA do regarding the 4 current bidders for your club? Should the SFA conduct a thorough check on the them? If they decide that the preferred bidder isn't 'fit and proper' should your club be allowed to die? Would you see that as a fair outcome? Just asking.

It's laughable the way certain voices are trying to suggest that the whole Craig Whyte affair is somehow the fault of the SFA. Can you imagine the sh*tstorm that would have followed if the SFA had attempted to block Craig Whyte's takeover? The Murray supporting media would have gone into meltdown if the man with untold billions had been blocked from investing in the Gers. This whole f*ck-up starts and ends at Rangers, the Rangers board and the Rangers chairman are wholly culpable. And what should happen now? Should the SFA conduct stringent tests on the various bidders in the frame to take them over now? What happens if they decide that none of them meet the criteria? Would be priceless if they did.

And of course... Buffalo (unpaid) Bills Chicago TeddyBears Pittsburgh Stealers Kansas City Thiefs

'They have been circling British football for almost two years, looking for a chance to buy their way into the game. In May 2010 they failed in a bid to bail out Sheffield Wednesday.' Circling 'British' football? Really? I'm thinking that these bids from the USA will founder as soon as they realise that Rangers are a Scottish club with no chance of promotion to the EPL.

I thought that too. The fact that he hasn't put the money in his personal account is perhaps splitting hairs. That's like me saying, 'Sorry, I didn't personally run over the lollipop man...it was my car'.

Just checking FFS....you can't be too careful with these lying, cheating b******s.

I assume that Rangers will no longer be able to sell tickets for away games. I'm assuming too that Strathclyde Police are being paid up-front given that the club haven't paid a single bill for months.

Why don't Rangers just become like the Harlem Globetrotters? They could exist by touring the world playing exhibition matches in front of their alleged millions of expat fans. Maurice Edu and Dorin Goian could wow the crowds with their dazzling array of ball skills while Lafferty could keep the kids entertained with his hilarious improvised mime routine. Lee McCulloch can treat the spectators to an exhibition of kicking anything that moves and there can be a half-time competition to spot Matt McKay in a line up of randomly selected punters.

No no, haven't you heard the news? We NEED Rangers. Without them fiddling their taxes to gain an unfair advantage over everyone else, denying other teams and their long suffering supporters a fair crack at winning trophies where would Scottish football be? Laughing at the wee diddy teams that live within their means while, with their partners in crime, grabbing the majority of available sponsorship money and strangling any form of competition. Better to defraud their way to the top, contributing hee haw to the country's coffers while dipping the pay packets of their own employees. They have cheated Scottish football for years and deserve no sympathy but unfortunately our media, whose own pay packets depend on them, will simply brush all this under the carpet a few months from now while they return to trotting out the same old sycophantic p*sh.

Apparently they have been deducting PAYE from their employees pay packets but not then paid this to the tax man. Basically they've dipped everyone's pay packet. Theft, pure and simple, absolutely shameful.

Lets enjoy it while it lasts. But even if Rangers FC are liquidated just watch as the SPL bend and break the rules to allow a phoenix club to come straight back in to the top tier. They'll no doubt impose a heavy points deduction for several seasons but Glasgow Rangers FC or whatever they're called will be shoehorned into a re-invented league. Perhaps the SPL will be dissolved and re-formed, member clubs by invitation only allowing them to have the teams they really want.

I think it's clear that the Queen actually f***ing hates Rangers. Why else would she direct her department of revenue and customs to destroy them? That's why she hasn't passed the crown to Charles yet. Once Rangers are no more she'll abdicate.

The fact that it's Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs just makes it funnier. God save the Queen!