The problem with this entire matter is that it is so multifaceted, broken, complicated and disconnected.
Yet alarmingly if we consider and think about it, we cannot help but see a common thread running from the days of John Reid and his pronouncements about Scottish football, to remarks from inside Celtc Park about nailing Rangers to the floor, to the off field concerted internet campaign that saw even University lecturers of a certain culture contributing to a community project to attack, undermine and destabilise Rangers Football Club.
This was further exacerbated by the press and media who seemed geared up to see the club isolated and given the most unsympathetic reporting possible, whilst politicians and social commentators saw a chance to use the situation to make the club both socially toxic and abandoned from any political support, notwithstanding that the club itself was an integral and vibrant part of Scottish heritage and society!
All this at a time, when those placed in positions of responsibility and power in the games own institutions, were demonstrably antipathetic at best and probably hostile towards both the club and the community who have traditionally supported it.
Now until we have a proper investigation into all of the elements regarding this supposed perfect storm, we will always be condemned into accepting it was nothing more than a set of unrelated circumstances that came together without any guidance or design.
Perhaps it was so, but it is difficult to shake off the feeling that there was something underhand behind it at its very core.