It's about having access to revenue. And why shouldn't we have access? Things were fine pre-2003 when we owned everything but your mate, you know the guy who "is not as bad as everyone makes out" decided we needed a new ground to play in.
You need to ask yourself WHY we had to sell our stake in everything. That is where this sorry tale started.
We sold our souls because we effectivly ran out of money cleaning up this piece of poisenous ground the council sold to us! When we finished it the Council came in on a white charger and took it back.