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1 minute ago, Sparkle said:

She didn't like the tone of the letter she received.

Denies she or the other taig intervened already and won't do so now.

Basically quite an aggressive reply 

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Dornan is a Taig and McDonald (another Taig) is Chair of Glasgow Life. If you read between the lines she's thrown them under the bus.

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I'm sure that this has been asked and answered before, but why do the club want the fan zone to be located on the football pitch as opposed to somewhere on the stadium grounds? I notice the rotund boot made this point in her letter.

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SNP do something anti-Rangers.

Rangers make a complaint (recognised by media and other political parties, who support our complaint to a degree)

SNP say we are wrong...

Annoyingly, Sturgeon is from a strong Rangers village of Dreghorn, but alligns herself  with an anti Rangers party.

Starting to think a Rangers fan didnt give her a kiss up the munt and she has a grudge

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14 minutes ago, FSM said:

I'm sure that this has been asked and answered before, but why do the club want the fan zone to be located on the football pitch as opposed to somewhere on the stadium grounds? I notice the rotund boot made this point in her letter.

Imagine it's easiest place to control numbers 

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Basically she doesn't like the tone of the letter. She had nothing to do with the decision. It was Rangers who failed to convince the Local Commnity Council about the fanzone. Think she suggests using the car park instead......not too sure if she asked for donations to Salmonds legal fees !! 

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Not sure if this will work any better and sorry it is form the Sun. 

https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/politics/3144048/Rangers-ibrox-fanzone-susan-aitken-letter-sectarianism/

GLASGOW’s SNP council boss branded Rangers staff “reprehensible” and hinted they risked stoking up sectarianism amid a furious row over a “fanzone” next to Ibrox.

Council bigwig Susan Aitken launched a counter-attack after the club said it had been unfairly denied the go-ahead to host 2,000 supporters on pitches opposite the stadium.

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There was anger after plans for an Ibrox fanzone had to be scrapped

In an explosive letter sent to managing director Stewart Robertson, Ms Aitken said the club was “conjuring up notions of conspiracy and bias” over the refusal to allow the zone on the council-owned pitches.

Rangers have since hit out at the letter branding the language “irresponsible”.

In the letter sent ahead of Sunday’s first Old Firm game of the season, the SNP chief said she was “dismayed” at the “tone” of a Rangers letter to her last weekend – which remains confidential.

She also accused Rangers staff of “amplifying claims” on social media that the decision was “a result of footballing bias”.

And Ms Aitken added: “To suggest so in a city where football allegiance carries such baggage is reprehensible.”

Rangers fan group Club 1872 blasts SNP MSP Stephen Dornan for ‘ignorance and malice’ over scrapped Ibrox fan zone plans

A Rangers FC spokeman said: “Not only is it wrong because no member of staff has tweeted about this issue, it is irresponsible for someone in that position to use language like that – especially ahead of an Old Firm match.

“Perhaps she should have thought better.”

Posts on social media from Rangers fans organisation this week slammed the council – and Tory and Labour MSPs waded in criticising the council and demanding “transparency”.

Ms Aitken is understood to be angry that Labour MSP and ex-minister Alasdair Morrison – now working with the club on fanzone plans – retweeted a post saying she and her No2 David McDonald “hijacked” a licensing board process to overrule the fan zone.

ALAN MACGREGOR EWING - THE SUN GLASGOW

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Council boss Susan Aitken sent the explosive letter

Warning the spat risked relations between the club and city leaders, she said: “I fail to see how a clearly orchestrated campaign against myself and colleagues and the behaviour of your own colleagues on this issue serves to create the right conditions for any relationship to flourish.”

Ms Aitken said she backed fanzones in principle “to facilitate a more family-focused match-day experience” regardless of whether they were used by “Rangers, Partick Thistle, celtic or the Scottish national team”.

Rangers announced in June it was setting up a fanzone on the artificial pitches – owned by council leisure arm Glasgow Life – for their first home game against St Mirren on August 12.

Ibrox and Cessnock community council met weeks later and voted against the plans, amid concerns it would take pitches used by youngsters out of use.

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