Council should support Racing Club

As someone who has lived on the estate for many years and been associated as an ordinary member with Racing Club for most of that time, I can only say that if the council believes the estate is ‘deprived’, then it must surely take a fair share of the blame for allowing this supposed state of affairs to come about.

Of course, it is no coincidence these two articles appeared in the same edition of your paper last week, it is simply another episode in the pathetic affair over the future of Racing Club that brings no credit on the council. What was just a few years ago a successful and thriving club providing sporting and social activities for the local and wider community has become the whipping boy for what appears to be a vendetta among the council’s own members, some of whom seem determined to close the club? One wonders why! Can there be some ulterior motive?

No one knows – or is prepared to admit – how the cadets became possessed of half of the old club house or what and to whom they paid for it! So much muddy water has passed under the bridge that it is doubtful if that will ever now come to light, but if the councillors really want to improve the wellbeing of us poor, deprived souls in the West End of Warwick, they should forget about wasting money on nebulous, airy-fairy schemes and put it where it will really help the young and old of the area and support the Racing Club properly. - Name and address supplied.