The outbreak of joy across the land staring on Tuesday night, led by the state sponsored and utterly shameless BBC, was entirely predictable.
Over the last four years the denial and spin put on the liquidation of Rangers Football Club that started in 2012 has been off the radar as the truth was bent, snapped and smashed into tiny pieces to avoid distressing the gullible and hard of thinking.
Other than the BBC we have the right to choose which media outlets we wish to support, if a radio station, newspaper or website isn’t to your liking then your lack of custom will be felt by advertisers.
What football supporters can directly influence is their club representatives, the men who sit silently and allow the chief executive of the SPFL lead the cheer-leading with unrestrained joy.
Any semblance of competence that Neil Doncaster held with supporters was destroyed a year ago with the farce surrounding the final day fixtures in the Championship.
Firstly Doncaster agreed to put the Hearts v Sevco match back 24 hours after the Falkirk v Hibs game with two clubs involved in the battle for second place. Doncaster then moved all fixtures to the Sunday before finally finding a Saturday lunchtime slot for the matches.
The chief executives of Hearts and Hibs made their feelings on Doncaster’s role very public, twelve months on the laughable notion of sporting integrity has been kicked into touch with the top man in Scottish league football hardly able to contain his delight at the success of one club over nine others in the Championship.
“There’s no question Rangers being back in the top flight next year will help Scottish football,” Doncaster told the BBC who pay a pittance for Scottish football in comparison to their deal with the English Premier League “It will certainly drive more interest in the game.
“It creates the return of Celtic-Rangers matches in the league. We’ve got an appetiser in 11 days’ time and up to four main courses to follow next year in the league.
“Those are genuine global events. For a lot of people around the world that’s what Scottish football means.
“They will turn the eyes of the world towards Scotland and help to commercialise the game for the benefit of all member clubs.”
When Doncaster explains ‘for a lot of people around the world that’s what Scottish football means’ it sounds very like his own views with a failed attempt at deflection.
All supporters of the 11 other Premiership clubs can be in no doubt that their club are simply passive extras to the only show in town as the final stages of the deception and lies started in 2012 are cranked up a notch or two.
Doncaster of course doesn’t operate in isolation, he works alongside a board articulating their views and putting forward the views of the SPFL member clubs.
Making up the board of the SPFL you will find Duncan Fraser (Aberdeen), Eric Riley (Celtic) Stephen Thompson (Dundee United), Eric Drysdale (Raith Rovers), Mike Mulraney (Alloa Athletic) and Ken Ferguson (Brechin City). The board members were elected by the clubs in July 2015.
Some of those clubs have groups of supporters, and indeed shareholders, who have made their feelings over the pantomime started in 2012 very clear.
The frustrations and anger of supporters realising that their club is simply a supporting act in the great deception is obvious.
The silence of Fraser, Riley, Thompson, Drysdale, Mulraney and Ferguson can only be interpreted as backing the comments of Doncaster to the BBC.
A media frenzy is underway as the clock ticks down to the start of the 2016/17 season with the real power in the hands of supporters who shell out in advance for season tickets- a vote of confidence in their club and indirectly to fair competition.
Standing up to the howling mob attempting to impose their warped views on others requires bravery, Scottish football fans have never had a greater need for a new Turnbull Hutton to emerge.
The debt ridden shambles at Ibrox is going to implode at some stage on ‘the journey’. When it does it’ll be rank and file supporters that ensure there is no second Armageddon- how will Doncaster and his board of directors spin that scenario with ‘the only show in town’ again rummaging through the ashes of despair?