With the news, earlier this month, that Rangers have offered their office/admin staff voluntary redundancy, I began to wonder to myself what this move could mean for the rest of Scottish football and, more importantly, the SPL.
Surely this means that there will be one less wolf hovering at the door of the ten non Old Firm clubs. No?
I mean, think about it! Both Rangers and Celtic stated that they needed to charge this 5% to pay for…wait for it…Admin Costs!! Then this MUST mean that, if their admin costs are lowered as a result of having less admin staff to pay in the first place, that Rangers can now drop their claim for the 5% surcharge. No? Really?
I know that a few members of the football hierarchy in Scotland are probably all ready sick to death of my new found love of letter writing. But do you know what? I think I may be doing just that very thing at some point today. I’m quite sure that Sir David Murray will be only to happy to explain to me in detail why they will still need to charge what is, in my opinion, an unlawful and anti-competitive tax on those clubs not lucky enough to have 50,000+ season ticket holders.
I may even include a stamped, addressed envelope to save him another few pennies.
