MY favourite Beatle is George Harrison.

Good looking, effortlessly cool, genuinely funny and the lead guitarist of the greatest thing ever. He was, and always will be,

The Man.

On his day, and I will argue this until blue in the face, Harrison was as good a songwriter as both his more acclaimed bandmates. I have lost friends over this but, anyway, McCartney never got his round in.

The Beatles’ best album is 1966’s Revolver, which opens with a Harrison song called Taxman. The guitar riff, a total original back then, has since been imitated many times and, in Paul Weller’s case, nicked.

George sings; “Let me tell you how it will be. There’s one for you, nineteen for me. Cause I’m the taxman, yeah, I’m the taxman.”

To be honest, it’s not a song I’m comfortable with. The bold George was whining about how he and his three pals, the richest and most successful musicians in history, were liable for 95 per cent so-called supertax.

George’s guitar may have wept, but my heart finds it difficult to bleed at the thought of a millionaire in his early twenties – living the life you would expect a millionaire in his early twenties to live – having to pay for nurses and hospitals.

And, of course, this brings us to Rangers and all things HMRC . . . neatly side-stepping the debate over what more punishment should be handed to the club.

Now before you run for the hills at the thought of being lectured to about title stripping – I appreciate that not everyone feels as strongly about the issue as others – I’ll explain.

My take is that there has to be an independent inquiry utterly separate from the SFA and SPFL. It’s not as black and white as some would suggest, although the case which argues that Rangers did receive a sporting advantage – Dave King said that himself a few years ago but has since changed his mind –

is pretty strong.

As a lawyer pal of mine put it: “It would never go to a proper court, of course. If it did,

a good lawyer could convince a jury that, for all their bad behaviour, Rangers won their trophies legally.” And he’s a Celtic fan.

The Offshore Report is something quoted at me all the time on social media by people who have clearly never read it.

As far as I know, I’m the only journalist to have spoken on the record to the guys behind what many non-Rangers supporters wrongly believe to be proof that the 14 trophies won during the EBT era are now null and void.

This is what one of the report’s authors, George Turner, told me.

“There should be an independent inquiry about how appropriate the controls and procedures the SFA have are in light of what happened in the past. We do not say in our report that Rangers should have their titles stripped. Let me be clear about that.”

Now that sounds sensible. Let’s have a proper inquiry for all sorts of reasons including putting into place rules which would make sure none of this happens again.

“The worst scandal in British sporting history” was the opinion of one blowhard. This will come as a surprise to the families of the Hillsborough victims.

But a scandal it is and, for me, the most galling aspect about it is that a football club believed it reasonable to find a way to ensure already hugely rich young men didn’t have to pay back their fair share like the rest of us.

The lack of contrition staggers me.

Too rarely, if at all, has anyone connected to the club felt the need to admit that not paying tax, which goes to a crumbling NHS, the welfare state, roads, bridges and quite a lot of other things, was a bad thing.

It would be okay for Rangers fans to admit their club acted appallingly, and many do, and still support their team. I still like The Beatles.

There were 276 creditors when it all went down. Some are owed a pittance, others have suffered. I know two freelancers owed thousands, they will now never see that, and had contracts ripped up. That might not mean a lot to Mr King and Sir David Murray but that’s going to hurt most working families.

And to the rest I say this. Struggling to pay the bills is far more important than your being denied a league trophy. Trust me on that.