Switching from last Thursday’s launch of ‘Andy Murray live’ to the facility formerly known as Murray Park the following day was quite a shift between the sublime of Scottish sport and the ridiculed.

Given the status of the national sport compared with that of tennis in Scotland when he was growing up there must have been a moment when our greatest ever sportsman wondered what the right option would be when, during his teens, one of our biggest clubs was making overtures.

The contrast, then, between that gathering in central London at which Murray revealed he was bringing global superstar Roger Federer to Scotland for the first time and the following day’s press call in Milngavie, spoke to the wisdom of his decision.

The very reminder, from a colleague, that there should no longer be reference to the name of the man who bank-rolled the most successful domestic run of the club/former club (delete according to predisposition) when describing the Rangers training ground, was a reminder of the reputational damage done not only by what has happened to a proud organisation, but the way it has played out publicly.

Rangers represented pretty much the gold standard for Scottish sport when the young Andy Murray was first swinging a racquet and, as recently as nine years ago, just months before he reached his first Grand Slam final, they contested a European final.

Since then his eclipsing of even our greatest footballers to become Scotland’s most popular sportsman of all time has coincided with Rangers’ decline into administration and liquidation, amidst battles with the tax man and the greatest figures in Rangers’ recent history with John Greig’s resignation from the board and Ally McCoist’s gardening leave. All very unseemly.

Which brings us to last Friday and those departures of Mark Warburton, Davie Weir, and Frank McParland, which were reminiscent of the departure of Smashy and Nicey from Radio Fab FM. Whereas the dodgy DJs created by Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse were racing against their management to tell the press they had resigned before it could be announced that they had been sacked, so we were told the Rangers management had resigned while they were adamant that they had not.

Perhaps my sense of the absurdity of it was affected by having spent the evening watching ‘Still Game 2’ at The Hydro, but my host for the night, a keen Rangers supporter, very much enjoyed the moment when, engaged in conversation as he was when a group of us re-gathered at the end of the show, he grinned maliciously and said: “Kev’ll know. He was there today.”

Kev, as he well knew, had not the slightest idea what he was talking about in spite of having attended what turned out to be Warburton’s last stand earlier in the day.

What I had witnessed, just hours earlier, was Warburton performing a hale fellow well met routine, seeking to convey bewilderment at the questioning of the nature of his relationship with the chairman and his immediate career prospects.

In seeking to make sense of proceedings it had, however, been my good fortune to be accompanied by colleagues Neil Cameron, our organisation’s football editor and Chris Jack, who principally looks after the Rangers beat for The Evening Times. We are all too experienced to take what we are told at face value, but the insight of those who have been more closely involved was all the more valuable when placed in the context of what would happen later in the day.

“He knows he’s gone,” reckoned Neil, that view supported wholeheartedly by Chris who was particularly offended at repeated claims from Warburton that he was being misquoted.

There have been many attacks on the integrity of Scottish sports writers in recent times, not least from sports organisations, so in that context reading back through the transcripts of Friday’s press conferences was a telling reminder of what we are up against when trying to establish what is really happening.

“If you read the papers every day you would go and hang yourself wouldn't you? That is the truth of it. If you sit and listen to every radio show… Some of it, you just have to laugh. If you take it too seriously you would go and hang yourself,” was one of Warburton’s assertions, insinuating that it was those questioning his prospects who were getting it wrong.

If, then, anything useful is to emerge from what the club’s former captain Terry Butcher would, on Saturday, describe as the latest ‘shambles’ at Ibrox/Murray Park/Rangers training ground, it may be an opportunity to invite re-evaluation of what confronts sports writers in an era that sees them vastly out-numbered by PR professionals.

On the one hand there were Friday’s press conferences and official messages. On the other there was the analysis of football writers paid to cut through the noise and work out what is going on.

Viewed with a little bit of detachment it seems pretty clear who has earned the right to be better respected in future.