Wednesday, 18 July 2012

Should Rangers be stripped of honours 2001-10?

Rangers won 13 honours between July 2001 and May 2010. It is known that the first Employee Benefit Trust (EBT) was issued to Christian Nehrlinger in July 2001. Only when HMRC intervened in 2008 did Rangers consider dropping the practice of paying players partly through EBTs. Apparently, every single Rangers player involved in 'Helicopter Sunday' in May 2005 was on an EBT. Therefore, when the First Tier Tribunal delivers its verdict on the matter (we know not when), the next question will centre around the honours being expunged. In this article in The Telegraph Tom Boyd, former Celtic captain, argues that they should.Should Rangers be stripped of honours?

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