last year, at the start of August
The worst news of pre-season is that we have to deal with Gibb
Everything was going right. Everything seemed to be going Citys way until the money men at Valley Parade started talking.
Almost everything that they said we great. City are making money just about but they will lose some next season as we go for promotion.
The money for selling Dean Windass and him getting promoted at Hull has helped but no one ever gets into football to get rich so Mark Lawn and Julian Rhodes don’t expect to make a fortune. Football is a fan’s game for them and you don’t get rich doing that.
Or do you?
Because the worst news of pre-season came when the “landlord of Valley Parade” which is Julian Rhodes code for “that twerp at Flamingo Land Gordon Gibb” got paid. Not only did he get paid but we also found out that he had a freeze on the rent for five years and now the **** can ramp up the rent.
This is the pepper corn rent he talked about when he had the club sell Valley Parade to him. Pepper corn rent? If he told you it was raining you’d go out to get wet just to check.
He is getting rich off of us and thanks to a deal which is very shady. How much money did City get from the £2.5m sale of Valley Parade and why sell it if we were going into Administration not that long after?
We can’t trust him. We need to be rid of him.
Mark Lawn, Bradford Council, Someone wanting to be a third partner in City, need to get some money together and get our ground back from that man.
Because the worst news of pre-season is that we still have to deal with the chairman from our past.
August 5th, 2008 at 20:55
Great article, Roland.
(Editor’s note. I don’t recall anyone ever saying this before)
August 5th, 2008 at 21:53
Well are your facts right ?
Gibb must have paid a commercial amount for the ground otherwise it could have been challenged by Kroll as being unfair to creditors by preffering Gibb.
Where the monies went is a matter of record .
Normal commercial property terms include rent reviews - the most common period is 5 years. There is nothing unusual or underhand in Gibb’s pension fund seeking this.The club can always negotiate but then again where would they move to ?
August 6th, 2008 at 8:58
It is well documented that Gordon Gibb (The Sheriff of Nottingham) will not enter into negotiations with either chairman at the club. Is this public condemning an attempt to lure the money bear out of his cave?