In similar but much more serious vein we could ask the same question of David Murray. Just where did it all go wrong Mr Chairman? Because make no mistake yesterday's stay of execution for Alex McLeish means the game is now up for the David Murray era. There is no strategy, no plans, no get outs. Plan B? Option A was only about getting the high earners off the wage bill and damn the consequences on the playing field.
Even the new time limit set for the manager makes no sense. All of a sudden Alex McLeish, a man who has struggled to beat Dundee Utd in his last half a dozen league games is expected to deliver against Porto, who won the CL last year and Inter Milan.
How can this be? We've been farting against thunder on the continent since a last minute goal in Sofia a dozen years ago. We are a joke organisation in the big boy's playground and now all of a sudden Alex McLeish, who has had next to no money compared to his predecessors, had better take us forward or else. That should be part of the job remit when the original contracts are signed between club and hired hand. It hardly seems fair four years down the line.
Do not take this as a sign that I'm now in big Eck's corner but a wee bit of realism wouldn't go amiss here. The killing fields for the Rangers manager was the four points dropped to the Slovakian pub team. That was a sacking offence not probable failure against the class opposition in the group.
I'm also tempted to have a blast at the manager for his apparent pleading in one of the rags yesterday that he wanted one last bash at Celtic. But you never know with the Scottish press what is truth and/or gross distortion.
So just where do we go from here? Well it is imperative that the Chairman is not allowed to go on a reckless spending spree to save face just as he did post Walter in 1998. But when you look at the calibre of men, the nodding dogs he has surrounded himself with in the boardroom, who is to say that won't happen?
In short, despite NIAR and for all the memories of Laudrup, Goram and Gazza still warm the cockles we stand once again on the brink. We truly are a club, an organisation at the crossroads.
Some people think that maybe all that is required is for David Murray to part with another wad of the folding stuff. Sorry, but I just don't see it. Whichever way you may care to look at it, he's already reduced the horrendous debt by £50m. It ain't small potatoes by any means. And no, I haven't forgotten why or how the debt was ran up in the first place
Rangers are of course a total shambles on the park just now and the present manager has been shorn of every, last shred of confidence. Quite what yesterday's announcement by the Chairman has done to restore that I do not know.
But let's be honest here. The incompetence on the park is mirrored in every, single department off it. The head of fans' security with his snout in the trough the other week for instance whilst Rangers fans are getting crushed at the other end of the ground tells you everything you need to know. It was a disgraceful dereliction of duties and it is not the first time it has happened.
A boardroom stooge taking part in an anti-sectarian sham because the club has neither the political will, integrity or cunning to stand up to the continual barrage of anti Rangers/Protestant hatred. ‘Here, Mr McConnell, just you and your merry band of yahoo, republican filth continue to shaft us. No KY required.’
We've also got the club DJ having a laugh at Rangers losing an Old Firm cup tie. Just where will it end? It's not a new manager in itself we need rather it is a reincarnation of Bill Struth to come in and take the whole club by the scruff of the neck.
So Alex McLeish has three weeks to save his Ibrox managerial career? Nope, I don't see it myself and what's more unless Mr Murray is prepared to spend money we just don't have then we'll be getting more of the same.
Oh, but one word to the wise Mr Chairman. Whatever you do make sure Terry Butcher is not an option. That man's name should be wiped from the Rangers record books. Hire him and you assuredly will see it all going horribly wrong.
The Govanhill Gub