Former Rangers owner Craig Whyte has claimed that a senior HMRC representative admitted to him they "should have done a deal" with Rangers to avoid administration.
Whyte has lifted the lid on the "disaster" of administration and talks with the taxman after purchasing the club for just £1 back in 2012 - before a series of off-the-park financial issues blighted the club the following year.
Whyte insists that he was told HMRC would never win the case against Rangers before he purchased the club before the scale of the debts at Ibrox became clear.
He insists that his talks with HMRC were "like banging his head against a wall" - before revealing that behind the scenes confession had been made.
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