John Hughes described Walter Smith as the "godfather" of Scottish football managers the other day. In recent weeks, however, Smith's traditional taciturn gravitas has been replaced by a more haunted look, the look of a man who spends his long, sleepless nights wondering what went wrong.When he returned to Rangers he knew there would be hard work ahead.

Such has been the forensic focus on Ranger's perilous finances over the last couple of days that following Scottish football has been like studying for an accountancy degree. Not so much fans with typewriters as fans with calculators.To save everybody the hassle of crawling into every nook and cranny of the internet in the search for news about the country's most bombastic football club

It seems hard to imagine now, having seen them dumped out of Europe with a match to spare, that Rangers' Champion's League group was actually interpreted as a cause for optimism when the draw was made. Not looking quite so easy now.It was, in fact, a group of modest talents but one that still proved too much for Rangers to handle.