[Your address]

[Date]

[MP Name and Address]

Dear Sir/Madam,

Re: Liverpool Football Club/Kop Football Ltd

I am a constituent of yours and would like to seek your support in lobbying the government to use its controlling stake in the RBS group to refuse to re-finance the loans given by RBS to Liverpool Football Club and its associated companies and to assist in taking steps to return the Club to its rightful owners, the fans.

I have written to RBS in the following terms which explain the views of fans and what we see as RBS’s obligation to us:

The Spirit of Shankly is the Liverpool FC Supporters’ Union set up to represent the interests of the true owners of Liverpool Football Club, namely the supporters. We are registered under the Industrial and Provident Societies Act and are regulated by the Financial Services Authority.

I have seen the company accounts published in the last couple of days in relation to our football club and its associated companies and it is clear that the business model operated by the current “owners” is unsustainable and quite frankly an embarrassment to you as funders of what is rapidly becoming a laughing stock in sporting and financial circles and more importantly to us as the proper custodians of a proud institution. Well, enough is enough.

I am writing to you to seek information as to Royal Bank of Scotland’s intentions relating to the refinancing of loans due from the Club and its associated companies which are due for review in July this year.

I appreciate that there are issues relating to confidentiality but I take the view that as one of the true owners of Liverpool Football Club we are entitled to know the Bank’s current intentions and views relating to any refinancing.

It is clear in the current economic climate that the Bank may have no appetite to extend funding on any basis or upon significantly different and onerous terms, and accordingly the supporters need to know where RBS stand on this issue which is quickly coming to a head.

The Union has taken professional advice and is aware that there are various options open to you as follows:

1. Refinancing upon the same, similar or different terms (with the attendant arrangement fees, costs etc);

2. A formal refusal to refinance on any terms leaving the current obligations needing to be immediately repaid with the threat of formal insolvency proceedings;

3. A formal but private refusal to refinance on any terms and the more likely “informal administration” seeking an exit strategy for RBS reducing expenditure and investment and seeing a medium term repayment of interest and capital;

4. Repayment of the current funding due to a third party funder being secured to replace RBS.

In any event we are entitled to know your current and short term intentions are and what negotiations and representations are being made regarding the July deadline. I feel that RBS, should not under any circumstances, re-negotiate a re-financing package with George Gillett or Tom Hicks that would see them remain in control at Liverpool Football Club. As the true owners of Liverpool Football Club the supporters demand that our wishes and our desires should be considered by you and that desire is to see Tom Hicks and George Gillett removed from Liverpool Football Club.

Please note that I expect to receive a substantive responserather than a bland refusal to discuss the issue with me. If I do not receive a satisfactory response then I know the Union is already planning direct action against RBS to support our request for the information we deserve.

The government is in a unique position to instruct RBS not to refinance these loans and to start a process that will see Liverpool Football Club passed to supporters’ ownership.

Yours sincerely

(Members’ name)

Spirit of Shankly