Charles “Chuckles” Green today won the first round in his fight to have Sevco pay his legal expenses in the forthcoming court cases over his takeover of the assets of OldCo Rangers.
A few weeks ago, the former director and CEO stunned the club when he formally submitted paperwork asking them to cover his costs as he battles prosecutors over the events following Craig Whyte’s liquidation of Rangers in 2012.
Green’s legal team estimates those costs at around £500,000 … money which the club simply doesn’t have, coming in a month where rumours are circulating about the need to find external funding in order to meet the payroll.
Sevco no longer has a stock exchange listing, so there is no requirement for them to announce whether or not that funding has been found.
If it hasn’t, the first the fans and the press will know of it will be in the form of a short statement issued through a PR firm which places the club in administration.
If the funding is found, no-one will be able to scrutinise the small print, and perhaps we’ll not even know the actual source of the cash.
This is what passes for “transparency and openness” at Ibrox.
Green’s claim against the club was due to be explored at a hearing on Friday, but a fortuitous gap in the court schedule brought it forward three days.
The Sevco legal representatives mounted their case for having Green’s claim dismissed; the judge, Lord Tyre, disagreed and has announced that the matter will be explored in full during a formal two day hearing at a civil court on 12 – 13 November.
The legal costs of this hearing will stretch Sevco’s finances even further, of course, as today’s court appearance will have.
Green, who was the darling of the media and of the Sevco fans when he first took over the assets of OldCo Rangers, has since become a hate-figure in the eyes of all but those Celtic supporters who take enormous delight in the tribulations of the Ibrox club.
He got his nickname, Chuckles, as a consequence of his barmy statements and farcical behaviour.
Three years ago today, On Fields of Green published The Green Eyed Monster, which is still one of the most widely read pieces on the site.
In that article, the bizarre and contradictory behaviour of the man who, at the time, was a cult hero to the Ibrox faithful, was explored in full.
A short time afterwards, he convinced large numbers of fans to purchase shares.
In the aftermath of his Ibrox tenure, with fans bleating about millions having flowed out of its empty coffers, Green retired to a lovely new home in France.
He owes much of his good fortune to the pliability of the Scottish press and the gullibility of a customer base that purely and simply will swallow anything.
Today’s court-room skirmish was the first of many that will go a long way towards determining the future of Sevco Scotland, the company vehicle he used to acquire the broken bits of the liquidated Rangers, and who’s complicated history binds the SFA, the SPL and others to this sordid saga.
His unexpected, and quite brilliant, move to secure his legal fees from the very people who’s campaign of destabilisation helped remove him from the boardroom means that we’ll be laughing at his antics for a long time to come.
Gone YERSEL Chuckles ????????????
I had read that it was an open & shut case for Chuckles, is the claim not as watertight as was first thought ?
You cannot make it up as to how such stupid people ever got to run any sort of football club. The whole Sevco sideshow has put a smile on my face from day one. How I love to see them suffer.
It’s not just Celtic fans who think he has done well….
I think along with wee Craigy Bhoy we must erect a statue of Chuckles on our avenue of heroes. Celtic legends these two!
Celtic always more concerned about rangers. They think everybody will forget how shit celtic is if they talk about other teams.
As the Scottish press kept telling us, he’s a business man !
HH
All I can say is haha what goes around comes around I’m enjoying every minute of the farce that is Sevco better still some of my fiends and family are Huns
Hope he wins 🙂
Great piece! Why isn’t this in the MSM…. oh wait you covered that. ass the mint sauce this is my kind of lamb 🙂
I’m just thankful that the bunnet wisnae as bent as Green is when he took over at CELTIC.
Your assertion that “…become a hate-figure in the eyes of all but those Celtic supporters who take enormous delight in the tribulations of the Ibrox club…” does a huge injustice to the fans of all other clubs who have greatly enjoyed the pantomime at Ayebrokes, now in its 1339 day since administration. 🙂
Stand Free
Good old Charlie boy, cons the club into selling them the old club, and after committing the crime against Rangers, he now wants them to pay his costs. You could not make this up. Putting in place papers that the club has to pay his expenses, means Mr Green expected to be arrested at some time. Mr King run for cover, you have not put any money into the club, so it could be. Administration once again.
Rangers the second no more……..
Bloody weight I’ve put on eating jelly and ice cream