The world as Rangers knew it had caved in on top of them.
With a club now headlocked in administration – being handled by the very firm Craig Whyte had in mind from the start – the spectre of something even more disastrous was fast coming into view. Liquidation.
Having spent the previous two years consumed by this constantly unfolding nightmare, Paul Murray was not about to wash his hands of it all now. No matter how hopeless it seemed.