They were the architects of the Five Way Agreement
One of the reasons Celtic fans are disgusted with the club over this is the suspicion that we are not chasing this down because we’re hog-tied in the Five Way Agreement, the disreputable document which lies at the heart of the last few years.
The Five Way Agreement is a pure corruption.
It is the document that guaranteed that the sins of the EBT era would essentially go unpunished.
It is a shameless contradictory document.
Not only does it show the blatant falsehood at the heart of the Survival Lie – it was signed by both the NewCo and old Rangers – but it is the document which underpins it.
We know all this, and we know that it came with its very own “side letter”, the one that made sure the current Ibrox club did not pay for any of the sins of Rangers and that Rangers itself got to keep every one of the tainted trophies. So far anyway.
What was Celtic’s involvement? We claimed not even to know about it until the whole grubby deal was done, but many of us have long believed that Celtic would not have accepted being shut out of such a major matter and that we signed off on the whole thing.
The Five Way Agreement is a scandal.
It erased a decade of cheating and birthed the Survival Lie even as it was built on the clear truth that Rangers died.
It protected Ogilvie and the governing body from its own outrageous behaviour.
It was a Get Out Of Jail Free card which all the guilty parties in the biggest sports scandal in Britain wrote to themselves.