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Post by rugbytoffee on Sept 6, 2016 12:55:18 GMT
Celtic coach John Kennedy has backed the idea of having under-age teams in the league set-up and believes it would benefit the whole of Scottish football. A restructuring of this season's IRN-BRU Cup saw Ladbrokes Premiership Under-20s sides enter the competition and after beating Annan and Cowdenbeath, the Hoops youths were beaten 5-1 at Livingston on Saturday. One newspaper report revealed plans are afoot to prepare a formal proposal which would see Celtic and Rangers under-age teams become part of the SPFL pyramid and the former Parkhead defender is in favour.
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Post by rugbytoffee on Sept 14, 2016 11:22:01 GMT
Not a good night for Celtic.
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Post by rugbytoffee on Oct 12, 2016 9:14:12 GMT
Former Celtic boss Neil Lennon and several ex-Hoops players have been linked to a £434million tax dodge.
An investigation by the Daily Record reveals Parkhead chief Peter Lawwell along with a host of former club employees invested in controversial film partnerships set up by London-based company Ingenious. Caretaker England manager Gareth Southgate was recently hit with a huge tax demand because of his involvement in the finance vehicles. HM Revenue and Customs have branded the Limited Liability Partnership (LLP) schemes as sophisticated tax avoidance. And they have issued multi-million-pound bills to hundreds of Ingenious clients all over the UK after winning a tax tribunal victory. The LLPs allowed members to offset losses made on film
investments against their tax
liabilities for other income. Companies House records show Lawwell and former manager Martin O’Neill became members of
Ingenious’s Inside Track 3 LLP in 2004.
Ex-manager and player Lennon was a member of Ingenious Film
Partners 2 LLP between 2006 and 2011.
Former Celtic and Scotland star Gary Caldwell is an investor in Inside Track 3 LLP and Inside Track 2 LLP, while he resigned from Ingenious Film Partners LLP in 2010. The Parkhead club’s former finance director Eric Riley is also a member of Inside Track 3 LLP. Momo Sylla meanwhile joined up with Inside Track1 LLP and Ingenious Film Partners LLP. Ingenious have admitted all of the above partnerships were covered by the tax tribunal ruling. While declining to comment on specific cases, an HMRC spokesman said: “HMRC continue to challenge schemes that try to exploit tax reliefs.
“Avoidance does not pay. Most schemes simply don’t work and users end up having to pay all the tax due plus interest.
“Many will be worse off than if they had just paid the right tax up front.”
Ex-Celtic star Craig Bellamy
also joined schemes linked to Ingenious in his time at Parkhead – Cherwell Films LLP and Orwell Films LLP. All of the LLPs have their registered headquarters at 15 Golden Square in London – the same address as the main Ingenious group. A number of other former Celtic players – Bobby Petta, Chris Sutton, John Hartson, Stan Varga, Alan Thompson and Johan Mjallby – were also involved in other LLP schemes. Petta was a member of The Film Development Partnership 11 LLP, while Sutton joined WRP Dryvac LLP. Varga was involved with The Gala Film Partners LLP, Innvotec 3LLP, Innvotec 6 LLP, and The Invicta Film Partnership No 23 LLP.
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Post by rugbytoffee on Nov 27, 2016 19:07:30 GMT
Tom Rogic lashed a left-footed stunner as Celtic claimed the Scottish League Cup and their 100th major trophy with a 3-0 win over Aberdeen. Socceroos star Rogic strolled into the right hand side of the box before bringing the ball back onto his left foot and firing into the far bottom corner of the goal to open Celtic's account on 16 minutes. Shortly after man of the match Forrest doubled the Hoops' advantage before the halftime break. Moussa Dembele added a third from the penalty spot after Anthony O'Connor brought down Forrest as Celtic wrapped up their landmark major trophy to the delight of the two influential midfielders. Rogic was full of excitement to score a goal as Celtic secured a milestone trophy. 'I think the fans deserve it, we deserve it as the playing squad because we have worked hard all season - it's no less than we deserve,' Rogic said. 'We won 3-0 but it's not easy against Aberdeen. They have pushed us very close in the last few years but I feel this season we have gone up a level, but there are days like this that you enjoy playing football.' Forrest was in agreeance with the Australian and lauded his teammates. 'We are absolutely delighted, we have done brilliantly to get to the final and obviously winning it is tremendous and we are going to enjoy it. 'I thought we were really strong in the first half - we started really well and that set us off for the game and I am delighted we managed to win it. 'We are absolutely delighted to win another trophy for this club and buzzing to have won it.'
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Post by rugbytoffee on Nov 30, 2016 15:43:40 GMT
Look to be running away with the league again this season
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