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Charles Green bought the business, assets and – according to some, but not all, of paragraphs in last week's report to creditors from administrators Duff and Phelps – the history of Rangers Football Club for a pittance in June. But he's really paying for it now. "New Rangers'" placement in Scottish Football's fourth tier means that what Channel 4 journalist Alex Thomson last week called the "voodoo economics" of old Rangers is part of that history.

While the European Championships have been chugging along neatly in the forefront of most peoples minds over the last couple of weeks or so, football in Scotland has reached a crossroads, the ramifications of which could be felt for many years. The saga of Rangers FC and the debate some might even say argument over where The Rangers, the club that has emerged from the ashes of perhaps the biggest financial collapse in the entire history of British football, will start next season is now set to drag into July, with the distinct possibility of reaching a conclusion that will satisfy absolutely nobody whatsoever.

Okay, let's get this out of the way quickly, before we move onto altogether more relevant matters. Joey Bartons sending off at Manchester City was a pretty stupid piece of behaviour, for which he has been severely punished. There. That wasn't so bad, was it? Bartons media profile has a tendency to overshadow everything in its wake up these days, but this does his employers something of a disservice.

By Alan Duffy

Kenny Dalglish wasn't the only ex-Liverpool star having a hard day of it on Wednesday. While King Kenny was clearing out his office, poor old misunderstood intellectual Joey Barton was preparing to fight The FA over a violent conduct charge relating to his meltdown against Man City last weekend.

Scottish Football League clubs did the right thing today and voted against Rangers entering the Scottish First Division next season.

At a meeting at Hampden Park, 25 out of 30 SFL chairmen dismissed a plan to accept Rangers in the Scottish game's second tier, placing them into Division Three where any new club in Scotland is supposed to be.