rangers "success" from 2000 to 2011.

[sideburnsam]

From the commission...

"Rangers FC did not gain any unfair competitive advantage from the contraventions of the SPL rules in failing to make proper disclosure of the side-letter arrangements, nor did the non-disclosure have the effect that any of the registered players were ineligible to play, and for this and other reasons no sporting sanction or penalty should be imposed upon Rangers FC."

So where did Rangers cheat?

[Rab_The_Ger]

[quote="happytim".[/quote]

Are you going on Sunday Reve?

More still, you will most probably be posting obsessive pish on here about it.

Whatever will be will be...No...

[happytim]

whether they gained an onfield advantage is irrelevant and open to opinion.did lance armstrong gain an advantage

in sport if you break rules and knowingly do so you are cheats. never has anyone been allowed to claim they didnt gain an advantage.

ps. the commission must have missed the part that rangers were fined.

so as they were punished, they must have done something wrong.

[John65]

From the commission...

"Rangers FC did not gain any unfair competitive advantage from the contraventions of the SPL rules in failing to make proper disclosure of the side-letter arrangements, nor did the non-disclosure have the effect that any of the registered players were ineligible to play, and for this and other reasons no sporting sanction or penalty should be imposed upon Rangers FC."

So where did Rangers cheat?

Hmm... let's set aside the legal jargon for a wee minute.
There is no argument from anyone that the EBT's meant that rangers fc could pay higher net wages to a player than they would have been able to if they were using conventional methods.
It is a moot point whether such players would have actually signed for, and therefore been playing for, rangers F,C had they not been paid the higher amount.
It is therefore a matter of opinion as to whether this was dishonest, amounting to fielding players you couldn't afford