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"No man in the country is under the smallest obligation, moral or other, so to arrange his legal relations to his business or property as to enable the Inland Revenue to put the largest possible shovel in his stores. The Inland Revenue is not slow, and quite rightly, to take every advantage which is open to it under the Taxing Statutes for the purposes of depleting the taxpayer's pocket. And the taxpayer is in like manner entitled to be astute to prevent, so far as he honestly can, the depletion of his means by the Inland Revenue" The words of Lord Clyde, Lord President of the Court of Session in a tax case in 1929.

Happens all the time, Bruno. Theoretically you can go into the Supreme Court having won three previous rounds by a total of nine judges to nil but lose the last round by two judges to three and you're sunk.

His teams were fitter? Really? I suppose they were to an extent but not as fit as full-timers should have been.

Lennon has other baggage does he not?

Nane o' yer Strichen spik here, min.

With you all the way until the last bit, Job.

McCoist's only strategy was to wait 'til the plumbers and posties tired and finish them off in the last quarter. A reasonable strategy provided of course you do something in the first three quarters to exhaust them. Ian Black couldn't have tired out my granny. She could have sat all day with her knitting on the eighteen yard line watching him turning and wheeling laboriously in the distance.

True. Nobody likely to come close.

The Herald obituary gives JS 381 goals. Probably includes Glasgow Cup, Glasgow Charity Cup and wartime games. Rangers Hall of Fame gives him a "huge tally of goals including 300 in both peace and wartime league matches." Either way, it doesn't detract from the point you make about Super.

Bruno, have a squint at Little General's research 10.02.15 "Rangers Centurion Goalscorers"

A Celtic supporter RSM in the Queen's Own Rangers, sorry, Highlanders? I doff my glengarry to him.

"Slag ally as the manager not the greatest goalscorer in our history (never to be beaten )" Our greatest scorer was Jimmy Smith. (Super wasn't bad, though)

New Rangers - who they?

Prodigy?????

What a childish outfit they are. I'm not sure I want to be playing sport with them or their running dogs.

Wonder goals mean nothing. Konterman scored one - once! You've got to be like Gazza and get a wonder goal every four or five games as well as his usual qjuota of normal ones.

Lord DY said players "might" have chosen not to sign. That's not a finding in fact based on evidence just a speculative remark. He was entitled to make that remark but observers and commentators should remember it's only a speculation and not now a cardinal principle of the law of the land.

He certainly looks like a tim and has a declared interest of a shareholding in the company of the dire but fair play to the man, he upheld the FTT ruling.

Not a bad team, the select. Deans hoofing it over the bar again. His altimeter was always a bit suspect.

Some notable celts: O'Neil, Larssen, McStay, McNeil, er, em, er - well, there must be some others but who have they trotted out to squeal about title stripping? Darren O'Dea. Oh dear God.. Speirs should be squirming He admits EBTs were legal at the time but they were used for an illegal purpose i.e. Saving tax . Jings.

John Terry's got older.

DK is not going to jail on the basis of events thus far. I'll let you know when I think he's at risk.

Happy birthday to the great man.

He would say that, wouldn't he?

The "common sense" approach has an initial attraction (see my facetious post #42) but the question is "whose common sense?" The trick is to apply common sense to the interpretation of the statute, regulations and precedent. The "common sense" notion is akin to the application of Equity which English judges are quite keen on and most of the Supreme Court judges are English so the appeal might be starting under handicap.