Keith Jackson has almost blamed Dave Murray for the liquidation of Rangers.
Back in November 2010 the top man at the Daily Record gushed about the incredible deal that Murray was about to pull off as he sold the Ibrox club to a little known billionaire from Motherwell.
The deal took six months to complete with the price dropping from £30m to £29,999,999 less as Whyte’s team uncovered the tortured finances of the club.
Stadium repairs were uncovered, the long overdue wee tax case came to light while Celtic grew in strength under Neil Lennon to threaten the Champions League windfall which had kept the club from insolvency.
Discovering a real true blue in Donald Findlay expose and trash the men at the top of the marble staircase has been a sobering experience as the downfall of the old club is further exposed.
To any outside the blame for liquidation lies at the door of David Murray- a man propped up by every ounce of effort from the broken banking system, the judiciary and politicians scared to call out the truth that is staring them in the face, underneath their expenses accounts.
Thinking aloud in the Record Jackson claims: “If the law of the land had been taking this Rangers s*** storm as seriously as they ought to have been, then Whyte would have been only one of a whole number of co-accused.
“This trial was the law paying little more than lip service to a scandal that unfolded the moment Sir David Murray decided to wash his hands of Rangers’ business and let Whyte pick up the mess.
“What did become very obvious over the course of the last seven weeks’ worth of evidence was the extent to which Murray was, let’s say, “encouraged” to enter into the deal by a bank who had his unmentionables in a vice.
“That is a truth his ego never quite allowed him to confront.
“Rather than hold his hands up and concede that he had to let Rangers go under to protect his own interests, Murray has always stuck stubbornly to the line that he was somehow “duped” by Whyte.
Jackson added: “It was just too much of a stretch of the imagination to believe that Whyte was intellectually capable of pulling the wool over Murray’s eyes.
“He must live with his own inner guilt and the knowledge that this entire charade has now been exposed for what it really was.
“There was absolutely nothing credible about Whyte and deep down, Murray knew it, if not at first then certainly six months later, when he signed on the dotted line as Whyte flicked a pound coin across his office desk.
“That’s why it was asking too much of a jury to throw the book at Whyte, even though he was a more than willing participant in a trade-off that changed the course of Rangers’ history and led to a tsunami ripping through the entire Scottish game.
“The very truth of the matter is, convictions or not, this is a story of a football club who were callously and systematically ripped apart from the inside.”
Perhaps those that believe in low profile billionaires from Motherwell also carry some guilt for duping the people.
