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Some Sevco Fans Are Finally Questioning King. But How Should They Deal With It?

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If you’ve been following events online at all lately you will know that there are a number of blogs doing the rounds, in relation to King and the Takeover Panel. They are a little different from a lot of the others on the same subject, in that these have been written by a smart and savvy Sevco fan, and are forensic and entirely fact based.

King is not the only target of these extremely well written, and well researched, pieces.

The “fan leaders” are also singled out for criticism and this is entirely valid, and even necessary. King isn’t the problem, and he never was. That the Sevco supporters “leaders” have allowed people like him to assume positions of authority and power at the club is the real issue.

King can’t be removed by the fans whilst things remain in this state.

There are real businesspeople on the Ibrox board; one run by the Park’s would be professional, disciplined and would act sanely. It would be credible. Obviously, this would deprive us of a great deal of entertainment but it would restore some order to the chaos which threatens to engulf the game here. A Sevco board that wanted to run the club on a rational basis would be one to command respect from other clubs.

But it seems unlikely barring a concerted effort by the fans to get rid of the latest charlatan.

He has too many sycophants and followers amongst the “leaders” and if the Sevco supporters want to change their club they have to start there, with a campaign to change the people at the helm of Club 1872, who are now the principle fan organisation.

As the three articles, by a blogger named daviesleftpeg, make abundantly clear, their high profile supporters reps were fully on board with King before the takeover was complete and the South African fraudster was so sure of his control over them that he actually told the Ashley camp that he could use their influence to sell the fans as a whole on the idea of offering the club commercial rate loans, with the stadium as security … the very thing Club 1872 was set up to expressly prevent. That the Sevco fans have been lied to by many of their own hardly needs pointing out, but this guy has done a fantastic job of demonstrating just that.

One of the things successive Sevco board have been very good at is selling the supporters on the idea that the real threat to the club comes from external enemies. How many times do people like me have to point out that the real problem is the enemy within? It was their own directors, their own boards, which presided over the seismic shocks of latter years. People inside the walls of Ibrox did far more harm to the clubs there than anyone outside ever did.

The problems – the real ones – are inside their own house.

John Brown was at it as late as last night, trying to focus on Motherwell and how they “only raise their game” for matches against the club. Utter nonsense, of course. Is it a coincidence that every time something goes wrong at Ibrox the fault always lies with people outside? Even the Warburton situation has been blamed on Notts Forest and the three men themselves; did nobody speculate that a dysfunctional relationship where the chairman and the manager never spoke to each other for more than a year might not be entirely the manager’s fault?

It’s worth reminding people that King didn’t even interview the current boss … what does that tell  you about his own level of commitment to the club? If he doesn’t want to run it like a proper chairman, if he doesn’t want hands on involvement, if he’s not interested in coming to Scotland even once in a while, and he’s not putting up any money … what the Hell is he actually doing? What’s his actual agenda? What’s he really up to?

The media will never act as a check on this guy. The idea that blogs like this one will is nonsensical. It’s not my job, not the role of the Internet Bampots. This was always going to have to fall on ordinary supporters over there. The only Real Rangers Men who matter are those in the stands, and it’s always been that way. The responsibility for changing their club and making it whole falls on them. Nobody can do it for them.

If the fans in the main believe that daviesleftpeg and others – and there are a number of them; don’t let anyone kid you, a lot of their fans do know what’s going on – are right to be concerned and that something should be done then they are the ones who are going to have to do it. That’s why the resignations of three Club 1872 board members, whilst understandable, was also counter productive. It drew attention to the problems without fixing them.

What’s needed over there is a coup, but that takes leadership.

As I said in a piece last week, when the chips were down Celtic fans did what had to be done, and we got our own house in order.

Do they have the stomach for the fight?

The writer of the blog has stuck out his neck, but only part of the way. It’s going to fall on others to really change the course of their football club, and that means it’s going to have to get bloody. Believe it or not, I wish those guys well in that endeavour. Because King and the conduct of his board is a stain on our national sport.

I will be watching this with great interest.

We all should.

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