Dave’s shares and a man of the cloth

When Mr David Cunningham King and his Concert party were victorious in the Off License Putsch of 2015, he brought in several organisational changes.

In doing so, he was assisted by a dynamic young chap; peace be upon him.

One of the things that emerged early on in the King reign was the creation of Club 1872.

A unifying voice for the fans and committed to increasing the shareholding in RIFC.

This Club 1872 statement from last month indicates how important they are to the cash flow situation at Sevco.

This piece in the Daily Radar has King fully in behind Club 1872 in the current dignified discourse.

As ever, there is a backstory to this.

I’m sure that regular readers will be fully aware that once Mr David Cunningham King left the big chair in the Blue Room, then  Club 1872 was going to be a contested space.

It was almost inevitable.

Now things appear to be coming to a head, and it is starting to come out into the open.

The name rang a bell.

I had read about Reverend MacQuarrie during the Famine Song controversy in 2009.

This man of the cloth put forward the point of view in January 2009 that the Irish love song the Fields of Athenry was  ” anti-British” and ipso facto “racist”.

Apparently, Tommy Sheridan singing the ballad on Celebrity Big Brother was verboten.

“This is an Irish rebel song and so the song should not be sung on television, or indeed anywhere,” said the Reverend.

For the avoidance of doubt, nothing ever came of this.

However, the Famine Song WAS ruled as racist later that year by the High Court in Edinburgh.

So Reverend MacQuarrie seems to be part of this spat in Club 1872.

A few days earlier, this appeared on the same dignified messageboard.

For the avoidance of doubt, I make no comment on the veracity or otherwise of these claims made on a quintessentially British messageboard.

However, that’s lots of dignified laundry in public, so why now?

Well, as with all matters Sevco, it is necessary to follow follow the money.

Essentially this is a battle for the fans cash.

Firstly, my understanding is that Dave wants his RIFC shares purchased by the supporters, ideally through Club 1872

However, the club itself needs that cash from their klanbase to pay back Mr King’s loan.

That money cannot be in two places at once.

See the problem?

Moreover, Mr King would REALLY like to have all of his assets out of the UK before the Ashley case might involve ring-fencing of Sevco’s season ticket cash pile.

Moreover, the usual route for a football club to get in cash is to sell players.

The chaps in the Blue Room are hoping for hefty fees for Glenn Kamara and Alfredo Morelos.

However, the Covid pandemic has created deflationary pressure across the football world, with only a few elite clubs not negatively impacted.

When the Revered MacQuarrie came across my Fenian radar over a dozen years ago, I decided that I would follow follow the money at Rangers.

It proved to be quite a journey!

Something tells me that there are a few more chapters of this Sevco saga before we can bring the curtain down on this iteration of the Ibrox sporting franchise.