Our first game of the new season is against our old rivals Guilford Bell Curve. It is a home game with a 10 am Kick off at Strong field.
As we all know Guilford just pipped us to second place in the league last year and gave us four hard games through the year. We only managed to beat them once, drew another and lost twice. The last defeat being the killer blow to our ambitions of finishing second in the league.
This will be a tough game but possibly our best chance of claiming 3 points against a team we know well. It would be a great way to start of our league campaign in Division 2!
Some people are suggesting having a picnic after the game but it may be to to short notice to organize. We do need beer boys though and I'm not sure if Hulk is still in charge of that? Any volunteers?
Let's try and show up at least 30 minutes before the game. We had a very bad habit of players turning up a few minutes before the game started or worse, after it started!
So see you all at 9.30 am for the 10 am kick off!
Jodingo!!
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Tano
Fribeka
Tpink
JohnB
Safet
El Gato
TomA (50/50)
Roniildo
HULK
Rugginho
LaBoca
Goggs is out Sunday and next week...travelling. No reply back from Kris N yet
Carlos, Jorge, Paulo??
Carlos, Ejmar and Eddy will be there
ReplyDeleteguys everyone bring a little something ........beer...chips...snacks and we will start a schedule next week
ReplyDeleteLets get feady to rumble!!!!!!!!. LaBoca
ReplyDeletelet's get ready to creak....
ReplyDeleteImagine if you will an athlete. Let’s say he’s a 100m runner, and he has dominated the field for 10 years. He’s so successful, so popular, so charismatic, that many people consider the future of the event itself depends on his continued participation, and success in, competition.
ReplyDeleteHe brings millions of dollars into the sport in sponsorship and television deals every year, and if he was to retire, no one would be interested in attending track meets or watching them on television any more.
Now this athlete has been at the top of his game for many years, but time is catching up with him. It emerges that he has recently been using a new type of performance enhancing drug, and this discovery throws up the revelation that actually, he has been using steroids for his whole career. What should happen to our now disgraced hero?
Should he be stripped of every Olympic and World gold medal he has won while using performance enhancing drugs? Should his personal records be removed from their placing in the world records? Should he be banned from all competition for at least the minimum period prescribed in the rules?
Or should he be forgiven and excused it all as a simple matter of expediency? We can’t have the money-tap for the sport turned off, after all. Can we?
What’s more, years of steroid abuse have caused serious physical deterioration in our athlete, and he may have to retire from the sport. Should the sport pay for his medical treatment to allow him to continue?
Consider then the curious case of Rangers Football Club. The most successful club in Scotland, they have won the Scottish title 54 times and claim over 100 first-class honors in their history. They attract the second-highest attendances in the SPL and their fan base probably provide the majority of the viewing public for SPL matches televised on Sky Sports and ESPN.
Despite this, Rangers is in trouble. Since the club was taken over by Craig Whyte in May 2011, they have not remitted any of the taxes due to Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) in Pay as You Earn (PAYE) tax and National Insurance Contributions (NIC).
Under previous owner Sir David Murray, the club operated an Employee Benefit Trust (EBT) scheme from 2000 to 2010. This is a scheme whereby employees are paid (and taxed on) a very small percentage of their wages. The remainder is paid into a trust, which then gives “loans,” to the employee, which are non-taxable and never repaid.
This is perfectly legal, but the key word is “trust.” The employee must “trust” the employer to ensure they are paid, “loans,” from the trust. Contractual payments absolutely cannot be made through the EBT. Evidence has emerged in the public domain which suggests that Rangers players were assured in writing that they would be paid from an EBT, and that they would never have to repay the money.
HMRC maintain that the payments made to Rangers players in this period were contractual in nature, and therefore taxable. They have presented Rangers with a bill for £24m in unpaid taxes, and £12m in interest. Should the First Tier Tax tribunal find in their favour, a further penalty will be imposed, which could see the final bill reach as much as £75m.
Since at least 1999, when a similar tax dodge was operated (Rangers admit this and have committed to paying £2.8m to HMRC), Rangers has therefore used non-payment and evasion of tax to give the club a financial and sporting advantage over every other club.
That’s not all. As Rangers has made payments to players which were not included in their contracts, the players involved were not correctly registered with the national association, and so ineligible. The accepted sanction for fielding of ineligible players in soccer is for the match to be recorded as a 0-3 defeat.
Since 1999, Rangers has won the Scottish Premier League seven times, whilst fielding ineligible players whom they could not have afforded to pay if they were not avoiding making tax payments on their wages.
To the outsider, it seems simple. Rangers must be stripped of all honors won during their financial “doping” years.
ReplyDeleteIt goes beyond even this. The President of the Scottish Football Association is Campbell Ogilvie. He has held influential positions with the SFA and SPL over a period of many years, going back to the 1990’s. At which time, Campbell Ogilvie was the Secretary of Rangers FC.
Indeed, Campbell Ogilvie was himself paid via an EBT during his time at Rangers. Both the SFA and SPL have launched investigations into Rangers’ conduct in the years since 1998, but there is no confidence within the Scottish soccer community that they will take any serious steps to deal with Rangers’ wrongdoing.
One thing Rangers cannot escape though, is financial reality. It finally caught up with them on 14th February when the club was placed into administration.
This is a UK legal term which basically means that a court-appointed team take over the running of the company. It prevents creditors from taking legal action against it, and the administrator must take steps to make the company profitable to ensure creditors are paid.
The administrators may seek to arrange a Company Voluntary Agreement (CVA) with the creditors. This requires the agreement of 76 percent of the creditors by value. It means that all creditors would accept a pennies-to-the-pound deal. Once they are paid, for example, 30p for every pound owed, the company can exit administration and emerge debt-free.
If the creditors do not agree a CVA and the company cannot pay them in full, it is then liquidated. All assets are sold off and the proceeds distributed evenly amongst the creditors. As the majority of Rangers’ debt is owed to HMRC, the chances of a CVA are unlikely. It is the policy of HMRC to reject CVA’s.
ReplyDeleteThe most likely outcome for Rangers FC is that they will soon be liquidated. The club will cease to exist. Here’s where it gets interesting. The SPL yesterday published a set of proposed changes to their Financial Fair Play policy.
Amongst them, is a proposal to allow a club, on liquidation, being allowed to transfer their, “share,” or membership of the SPL, to a new company. This would mean that should Rangers be liquidated, their directors, or anyone else who wants to buy their stadium, training ground and players, can do so and be given Rangers’ place in the SPL.
Effectively, this would mean a debt-free company, called Rangers FC, playing in blue shirts at Ibrox Stadium next season, while HMRC and other creditors (Rangers are in debt to possibly as much as £134m) are left with nothing.
One of those creditors is Heart of Midlothian FC, from whom Rangers signed full-back Lee Wallace. They still owe £800,000, which is unlikely ever to be paid. Another is Rapid Vienna, from whom Rangers purchased Nikica Jelavic, whose goals were instrumental in their winning of the SPL last season. Rapid are still owed £1m, and despite Rangers selling him to Everton FC for £5m in January, Rapid are unlikely to ever see their money.
Effectively, the SPL propose to issue a cheats’ charter, and coincidentally I am sure, just as it looks like Rangers are to be liquidated. Nothing like this happened just four years ago when Gretna FC were liquidated.
Rangers FC is in serious danger of being liquidated because they have lived beyond their means for far too long, in the process distorting the market in Scotland.
It has abused the tax system to give itself an unfair sporting advantage over the rest of the clubs in the SPL.
It has bought players from other clubs it could not afford to pay for and had no intention of ever paying for.
And the Scottish sporting establishment, governing bodies and media, want everything possible to be done to facilitate Rangers, who have destroyed the sporting integrity of the Scottish game, escaping the consequences of their self-inflicted troubles.
To return to our doped up and physically damaged by self-inflicted wounds athlete, it appears that in Scotland at least, all the stops WOULD be pulled to ensure his continued participation in the sport.
We can’t allow the money-tap to be turned off, after all. Can we?
I still do not know were Strong field is?
ReplyDeletesafet it is the field on the Right hand-side as you enter the Madison Surf Club. It is close to the picnic area where we party after the home games...you can't miss
ReplyDeleteJodingo!!
ReplyDeleteJohnaldo
Tano
Fribeka
Tpink
JohnB
Safet
El Gato
TomA (50/50)
Roniildo
HULK
Rugginho
LaBoca
Edimar
El Flaco
Edison
KrisN is out on Sunday and the following week
ReplyDeleteStill waiting to hear back from Paulo
ReplyDeleteJorge not responded yet either
ReplyDeleteThank You Ron, I just talked with Paulo, He has cold but coming on Sunday enyway
ReplyDeleteThanks Safet, Glad Paulo can make it....
ReplyDeleteJodingo!!
Johnaldo
Tano
Fribeka
Tpink
JohnB
Safet
El Gato
TomA (50/50)
Roniildo
HULK
Rugginho
LaBoca
Edimar
El Flaco
Edison
Paulo
I have #4 shirt and will bring #14 with me. Tailor fixed it this morning...
ReplyDeleteThank you so much.
Deleteim so proud of you guys working this out.....lol
ReplyDeletewatching Levante vs Barca with a glass of wine sitting outside
ReplyDeleteBarca losing one nil!
ReplyDeletei bet none of you read the Rangers stuff...... oh well....
ReplyDeleteI read the Rangers stuff, and was disappointed if not surprised. I began thinking that if I was a a regular Rangers fan, I would be so mad with the deception of the corrupt management that architected the present debacle...that I would seriously consider becoming a Celtic fan, and just forget about the 100s of years of indoctrinated bigotry...think about it. All of Glasgow and Scotland gets behind Celtic FC, because they are a legitimate and valuable organization revered around the globe. As the ambassadors of Scotland, we are invited into the the Barclays Premier league, where we eventually win it, and then move on to seriously compete for the Champions league, as we did back in 1967........
ReplyDeletewhat a performance from Man City (or should I say Aquero and Teves)today at Norwich....pressure mounts for ManU tomorrow v Villa....
ReplyDeleteKris is in tomorrow :-)
ReplyDeleteJodingo!!
Johnaldo
Tano
Fribeka
Tpink
JohnB
Safet
El Gato
TomA (50/50)
Roniildo
HULK
Rugginho
LaBoca
Edimar
El Flaco
Edison
Paulo
KrisN
Congrats to everyone today for a nice opening win to the season, and big thanks to Johnaldo for the medals and trophy's for our efforts last season.....see you all next weekend for another home game
ReplyDeletegreat win guys! and greatt debuts from the new guys!!
ReplyDeleteThank you Johnaldo your the best.My son was so exited when I came home(a trophy Dad? awesooome!)
ReplyDeleteWe start with lucky this year, so I know 1st. div promotion will be our reward, watch out Black Eagles, Celtic is going on your hunt.
Get rest Paulo and don't push your rehab.
we are top of the league!......and Orange are bottom!
ReplyDeleteJohanldo, Where's the game report? You have something more important to do??? Ha!
ReplyDeleteOur good friends with Guilford Bell Curve must be tied with Orange at the bottom!
ReplyDeleteAfter yesterday's game, I've taken a serious disliking to two of their players.
Jodingo!!
ReplyDeletewill try to write it later tonight..... the league tables are on the SASL website on the pages section above, right side of blog
it would be great if it is the same story in November...let's have fun and do our best every week!!!!
ReplyDeleteit would be great if it is the same story in November...let's have fun and do our best every week!!!!
ReplyDeleteRoniildo... your post have echoes in the eternity ;)
ReplyDeleteDon't count the chickens before they hatch. Nice trophies and medals for third place!
ReplyDeleteThe difference between a successful person and others(you anonymous) is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
DeleteDon't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.
and if a third place is a failure...
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
Anonymous... if you lose your enthusiasm, we help you to be positive and think the at list some one share his time and money to get a souvenir and give to us with appreciation, instead of sarcasm comments that we forget. Are you jealous of happy people? we help you too, because Madison Celtic is a happy team that good people want to be part of it and boring people just walk away. SO be happy because life is short more than Tano :).
anonymouse.... enjoy the medal!
Deleteanonymous....who's the chicken :-) Just said it would be nice if it happened, not that it was going to happen...LOL
ReplyDeleteJohnaldo... is Wednesday and no game report? are you ok? what hospital you are?
ReplyDeletehi Tano... not in hospital... lol...just a bit busy...report will be out tonight!
ReplyDeleteok, did Carlos score the second or Ed?
ReplyDeleteboth
ReplyDeletelol....free kick by Edgimar and a flick or a dummy by Carlos?
ReplyDeleteBad news,we lose Paulo for rest of season, His knee is gone
ReplyDeleteJohnaldo..Just look the video,LOB have the 3rd goal not sure about the 2nd.
ReplyDeletePaulo...sorry to hear that I wish you fast recovery.
Hola! A general question.....when a team loses a player to a season-ending injury, does the team have the ability (is it allowed under league rules) to fill the roster spot with another player?
ReplyDeleteIs it too early for a role call for Sunday? Don't think so!
ReplyDeleteI'm in.
And, is too late for game report? Don't think so!
DeleteLooks like no game for this Sunday. Check the weather big clouds 50% of rain on Sunday and Saturday night too, so will see.
Our game is at 11 so we have until 9 am to decide how bad the weather is. Over 30 has a game before us at 9 am so if their game get cancelled so is ours. Keep your phone and computer close by for this weekend.
ReplyDeletePaulo, so sorry to hear the bad news my friend :-). we wish you a speedy recovery. Hope top see you at the games anyway for coaching and support...
ReplyDeleteJodingo!!, i doubt we can have an additional player over 25th even under the circumstances, but will check with SASL to be sure...do you have anyone in mind ;-)
ReplyDeletenew article posted...sorry for the delay!
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