James Bisgrove dumping Rangers stadium shambles in John Bennett's lap is a breathtaking act of betrayal - Keith Jackson

The embarrassment factor will be off the charts. For Rangers chairman John Bennett and his board, this debacle over the state of the Big Hoose will have come as an utterly mortifying experience.

But there will also be a whole load of shock and anger among the men left to clean up the mess at Ibrox which was dumped on them from a huge height by a chief executive who couldn’t get out of town quickly enough. There will also be questions that need to be answered about how they’ve been left in such an almighty mess and perhaps even if there is a legal mechanism by which some kind of accountability can be apportioned.

Not just for the strategic botch-up that’s left them without a functioning, fit for purpose home stadium for who knows how long. But more specifically, for the breathtaking act of betrayal that lies behind it.

He wouldn’t be doing his job right if Bennett had not already launched a top-level probe into the circumstances that have caused this chaos to unfold and land on his desk without so much as an early warning. As part of that investigation, he’ll want to nail down exactly who knew what. And when.

And if, for example, it emerges CEO James Bisgrove knew more than he was prepared to share with the rest of the club’s
hierarchy then it might also be reasonable to conclude that blood will have been boiling over in the boardroom ever since he disappeared in a trail of dust to a desert in Saudi Arabia.

Worse still, what if it becomes clear that, during all of this, the Englishman was also effectively working his own ticket –
travelling to places such as Bahrain to grease his way into a barrel load of oil money? Well, that would constitute a monumental act of bad faith. One that would be very likely to elicit a