Maybe I am being somewhat naive, but reading the increasingly desperate news concerning Rangers this week, one sentence leapt straight off the (virtual) page at me today - the BBC reporting that the SFA are investigating whether Craig Whyte satisfies their 'fit and proper person' criteria. This information seems to me to be coming at an incredibly late stage. And also seems a little bit pointless now as well. Surely if he is found not to meet the criteria, then the SFA itself must shoulder some of the responsibility for the current situation, in light of not implementing these checks at the time of Whyte's takeover.
A horrible situation for fans of Rangers, and I simply cannot believe those rumblings coming out of Celtic that refuse to admit that their own standing will be diminished courtesy of losing their city rivals as meaningful competition for a number of years, at the very least.
Perhaps the only positives to come are yet to be seen. An end to some of the more pernicious elements of the sectarianism that has dogged the Old Firm as a footballing idea? We'll see...
