Not after Saturday lunchtime at Tannadice, where I purchased my ticket and entered the visitors' end to sit with 400 Rangers supporters who would become increasingly frustrated as the afternoon wore on.

It was a fascinating experience being back among "the bears". And I'll say this straight up; despite being well trounced on the pitch, and mercilessly goaded and baited from the packed Dundee United stands, the mood among this Rangers travelling support remained impressively buoyant and fairly good-natured.

The Honourable Company Of Edinburgh Golfers at Muirfield in East Lothian refused to budge on its ban just days after a dramatic announcement from Augusta National Golf Club that it was ending its 80-year gender barrier.

The home of the Masters golf tournament, famed across the world, said it was to admit two women, Condoleezza Rice and Darla Moore, to its erstwhile 370-strong all-male membership within weeks.

In short, says the Rangers manager, the SFA and SPL have it in for his club. McCoist would do well to pause before heading down this siege mentality road which Rangers, of all clubs, had always previously boasted of avoiding.

Is McCoist right? Is the balance of crime and punishment wrong between Rangers and Scottish football's governing bodies? Or even more pointedly – as some Rangers fans are now wont to say – do the SFA/SPL axis really want to kill off for good the Ibrox club?