In an interesting twist this morning, Newcastle United appears to have a court hearing today over a claim against the HMRC.
There are no other information at this time, except that Newcastle United will have a hearing at the Royal Courts of Justice in London at 10:30 a.m. today over a dispute with the HMRC.
The hearing is scheduled to be presided over by Lord Justice Singh and Mr Justice Garnham, according to the Government website.
As this entry on the website is all we have to go on right now, we’ll get our speculation heads on and deduce that it has something to do with the HMRC raid on St James’ Park in 2017 during Mike Ashley’s ever-eventful Mike Ashley days.
HMRC raided Newcastle and West Ham on the same day for unpaid taxes, with Newcastle director Lee Charnley arrested and then released without prosecution. Officials confiscated computers and information before dropping the probe four years later with no further action.
No charges were ever filed, and it now appears that Newcastle may fight back.
Before PIF took control, HMRC dropped their investigation.
Given that the raid occurred and was dropped while Mike Ashley was still in charge, it is now up to PIF and Amanda Staveley to pursue justice for the club’s reputation – if that is what this case is about.
Wor Mandy is known to enjoy a good fight, so it’s highly plausible.
Like we say though, this is just pure speculation on our part, it might be an entirely unrelated issue, but hopefully we find something out later today after the hearing.
We’d also just like to point out this post on X which had us all rolling this morning:
