It would appear that Sevco just cannot shake off the sense of entitlement that Charles of Normandy bought from Duff and Phelps in 2012.
He purchased it at the same time that the Administrators threw in the history and traditions with the assets of the dead club.
The latest example is this remarkable letter written by Councillor Susan Aitken replying to Stewart Robertson of Sevco.
As regular readers will know Mr Robertson is in titular charge of the day to day matters at the basket of assets.
The spat surrounds the desire of the Engine Room Subsidiary to set up a klanzone on publicly owned land adjacent to the stadium that John Brown played for.
Ms Aitken states in her letter that:
“Rangers FC may want to ask if it carried out adequate engagement”.
The thing with that pesky sense of entitlement that Charlie bought in the liquidation sale is that it doesn’t lend itself to “engagement”.
The default setting is to angrily demand stuff from lesser beings.
Ms Aitken refers to the Sevco letter where the Community Council were characterised as “ill-informed pawns”.
Oh dear…
Ms Aitken makes the following very serious accusation in her letter:
“It is also of considerable concern that individuals employed by Rangers should take to social media to endorse and amplify claims that any decision on this issue is a result of footballing bias.”
She considered that to be “reprehensible”.
I concur.
Le’s face it, the unfortunate community in that area must be sick of the sight of booze fuelled bearz marauding and stabbing in the street so why would they give up their own amenities to further disrupt their lives. I wish I had read the letter from big mooth but the replies to his assertions should put his gas at a peep. Well said G.C.C. HH
This is the default setting for the entitled ones. When Minty first spoke of the “casino / hotel” the dead club were going to build it was going to be on land purchased from GCC. Then it was going to be a partnership with GCC. Then it was “Give us the land!” When a senior functionary at GCC used the “N” word to Minty, ie, NO, poor Minty was apoplectic! “BUT!! BUT!!! THIS IS RANGERS” he spluttered. Entitlement??? The senior functionary is a friend who I rarely see now as he’s since retired and spends the vast bulk of his time out of Scotland.
You may need new windows soon Susan
HH
Is it true that the official response from Ibrox was “but.. but.. but.. wearrapeepul – aren’t we?”.
That’s them ‘tell’t’ but it won’t shut them up such IS that sense of entitlement.
Just like with the sfa and spfl leadership ‘bones’ the squinty wouldn’t let go of – they will krank up the klan and their compliant media via the ‘club bias’ ticket in their usual manner.
I detest every aspect of that klub from top to bottom.
I’d rather they didn’t exist ( shame on you Scottish football) at all… but at least want some semblance of football kharma to come into force tomorrow and see Celtic shove their entitlement right up their blue arses.
And lo….
It WAS well and truly shoved up them!
Thank you Celtic!!!
Just to clear up my poorly explained comment earlier.
If you own land it’s just a matter of law. (Are you in line with licensing, planning, are you a nuisance to surrounding environment)
Sevco don’t own the land, they demand public land be theirs for when they see fit. Ie matchdays. Booze etc and to hell with the community who may be using it.
So community groups and councils etc must be consulted.
Great to have that letter out there. Would have loved to have got Robertson’s letter to council.
IT IS ABUNDANTLY CLEAR THAT A CENTRAL ISSUE HERE IS ONE OF OWNERSHIP.
this matter was touched on by a colleague of sorts of your Phil a couple weeks or so ago. At that point, my understanding (I say this as someone who engages with various councils on behalf of a multi venue companies I work with)
Was very simple, if you own the land (refer back to my bold type quote from letter) no community council or whatever do gooder group can say damn all that matters.
The issue at hand is simple, it’s an issue of law. In this case, the licensing board at GCC rule on it. That’s it.
Mr Robertson and the fellas at ibrox clearly know all of which i state here clearly know all this, if they don’t, then they should resign……
They do. Of course they do.
So why would they have made an issue of this all to GCC, and using aggressive wording, using social media via employees to act this way…….
When they know the flaws??
It’s ever so simple. They are appealing to their KLANBASE. their shock troops. Not to dissimilar from the excrement that hounded Angela Haggerty online.
Shower of nasty scum the lot, in that club top to bottom. I must remain anonymous for my family’s sake and others, I literally operate behind enemy lines, in a heartland of Zombies But day will come I won’t have to.
Meantime despite all the negatives and rightly so. Do me a favour Bhoys and Ghirls, look at our team and the sevco team……exactly. Only a couple could expect to have a chance of starting and few would make bench.
Scott brown and Rodgers must galvanise the Bhoys and thump this lot of sevco thugs tomorrow. Then a free agent must be signed as cover for strikers.
We have Benkovic, for season. We have a squad man in mulumbu, we have Johnston coming in as regular. Let’s rolls and sort this out.
Then come December. Plans must be made for a decent January window.
I love you Celtic, I always will.
HH
I understand Mr Robertson asked that his letter be kept “in confidence”.
An FOI request to Ms Aitken ought to free her from Mr Robertson’s polite demand to compel.
Great comment NT,HH
Arse: kicked.
A letter of total transparency. No hidden agenda. Just the facts. I picked up the Daily Record on a train journey today. First time in years i have even touched the thing. The first thing i noticed was Ralstons report/opinion on this issue. What an utter disgrace. A total whitewash of the facts and a clear agenda to stir up the ibrox hordes and encourage this everybody hates us mentality. These guys are an affront to journalism. Needless to say that will be the last time i look at that newspaper. I genuinely would not wipe my proverbial with it.