Here's the Livi Chairman shooting himself in the foot...Again
Chairman:
'Enough is Enough'
First of all, I am disappointed that I am put in a position today that I have to repeat myself once again with regards to matters surrounding the football club found in the press.
At Livingston Football Club, the board and I are building a future for the club that we are all working very hard towards achieving as quickly as possible. But the only news you as supporters recieve seems to be negative. It is time for you to understand why this is happening.
There is an organised group of four or five people who call themselves supporters who are trying to damage the club. They are trying to force out the current board and myself for their own personal gain.
They want to take control of this club, kill it and restart it again in the lower divisions. This is through their own personal interests that they want this to happen. Obviously, this would once and for all destory the club, erasing it from professional football.
They claim to have the best interests of the club at heart but all they have done in recent months is damage the club by helping create false reports in the press and conflict within our support.
They are misleading supporters though their propaganda - which is being utilised by the Scottish press = to force them to believe inaccurate information about this club.
I attended the Livi for Life trust's meeting last Sunday, having also been invited to their meeting here at the club last November. At November's meeting, they had approximately 400 attendees. This time, they had between 40 and 50. It is clear thst their beliefs and actions are insignificant and are not representative of Livingston fans/
It also appears to me that the current members of the trust are still strongly linked to the previous regime to be truly objective. For that reason, they are no longer worthy of my attention and yours. I have wasted enough time with them when I should be moving forward with rebuilding the club.
With regards to so-called issures amongst our players, their results on the park in recent weeks are there for you to see. You can judge for yourselves gow affected they supposedly are, if press reports were accurate.
As for our staff, when I came here I found the majority of them to be very hard woking and dedicated people. It is also fair for you to know that I found people who did not have the best interests of the club at heart. After a long investigation, it has been proved to me that they undermined the financial stability of the club over a long period of time. Fortunately, these issues have resolved themselves recently.
We need all our supporters to help the club. This weekend a "Player of the Year" event is taking place outside of the club. By not holding this event here, those who organised it are failing to help their club. No permission was sought for our players to attend this event, therefore they won't be.
We intend to hold our own official "Player of the Year" event here at the club, where all of the club's staff, coaches and players will be in attendance for you to spend an evening with.
Right now, we are counting on your continued support and we thank you for it. We encourage you to take up our special "Early Bird" offer to renew your season tickets in order for us to have a great season together.
I thank you again for your support and I hope you will respect our minutes silence today for those affected in Italy by the recent earthquake.
Signed, Angelo Massone (Chairman, Livingston Football Club)
With thanks to Edinburgh Livi for his outstanding typing. We salute you sir