IS IT POSSIBLE THAT IT’S A CASE OF “NEW CLUB, SAME TRICKS”?
Now this one is controversial but I think there could be something in it.
Is it possible that Sevco have a tax bill coming that they cannot pay? Think of the timing, 14th November. Was that when the tax bill landed in 2011?
And if this is on the cards they would certainly need to blame someone else, as well as putting pressure on HMRC to go easy on them over it.
Who else could they blame?
No one else is responsible for their tax.
I think it makes sense that if you had the public profile and you were facing a major tax investigation that you could put out a bullshit story about HMRC being at fault before and hope to play to the gallery this time. Does it add up?
How about when you factor in that HMRC very rarely – not never, but rarely – comment on these things but have responded publicly this time, and you have the outlines of something very big going on, the ultimate game of chicken, perhaps?
What they didn’t factor in was common sense, from others even in the normally friendly SMSM, and the fact that HMRC did respond.
Consider who runs that club. A convicted tax cheat. Consider his prior behaviour. He doesn’t care about laws or standards or rules. He’s tested the British courts and the worst he got was what seems like a slap on the wrist from the city.
I am not saying this is it, or that any of these scenarios is close to the truth … but this is Ibrox, this Dave King and so all are definitely possible and of course a mixture of them all is even more credible.
Whatever it is, it is certainly big.
How big? Big enough, maybe, to end with the death of a second Ibrox club.
And they will have no-one to blame but themselves … although HMRC are in the crosshairs and are obviously seen as the ideal scapegoat.
Dave Campbell is a Celtic fan and blogger from Glasgow.
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