The Glasgow City Council’s Building Warrant website could shed light on the real reason on the Ibrox stadium shambles for Celtic and Rangers fans

Celtic fans have been having a bit of a giggle at the Rangers fans’ expense over the last few days over their shambolic handling of the Ibrox stadium upgrades.

We have been talking about how rumours on Follow Follow seemed to suggest that there was a delay in getting the construction work done in time.

It’s all been a bit of a crazy affair and with no one knowing what is really going on, a quick look on the Glasgow City Council’s website for Building Warrant applications might well shed some new light on the shambolic situation.

As everyone knows, before any major construction work is carried out on any building, commercial or domestic, an application for what is known as a Building Warrant, must be made.

Now before anyone gets too excited, Rangers actually did their due diligence and placed their application in back on the 18th of April.

The application was validated a week later as per the screenshot below:

Now here is the important part, validation of the warrant application does not mean that permission has been granted for work to begin.

It merely means that the council have the paperwork and is looking over the application in order to make a decision.

At the time of writing this, the decision to award permission for the Building Warrant, as you can see, was sitting ‘pending’.

Now that is not going to change today because when you see the next screenshot from the website, you will understand why:

The target date to grant permission for the warrant is scheduled for the 24th of June. Tomorrow at the earliest.

Now that’s not to say that the decision to grant the warrant will be made. That’s just a target date for the council to make the decision. It could take longer.

And it could also be denied. So why is this an issue? According to the Scottish Government, any works that have been started without having a Building Warrant in place could lead to a fine and any work that has been completed can be ordered to be removed.

Is that the real reason the work at Ibrox has been stopped? You would think that the Scottish media, and the Rangers fans, would have been asking this very same question.