EVEN witnessed from a distance and involving no emotional ties, Mark Warburton concedes that he found the collapse of Rangers and the ensuing bouts of financial chaos which engulfed the club positively "heartbreaking".

He will be very much on the ground, however, when the debris created by those chaotic, cataclysmic times is combed over in court and he is eager to ensure that the return of Charles Green and Craig Whyte to the public consciousness does not drain some of the positive energy his role in the great clean-up job has created.

Certainly, the impending appearances in the dock of Green, Whyte and two of the administrators who oversaw the deal to sell the assets of Rangers in 2012 – all charged with serious organised crime – is likely to result in anger, outrage and the return to some rather dark places for followers of the Ibrox club.

Warburton, of course, bears none of the scars of that period. Brought in by Dave King in the wake of his successful bid to seize control and become chairman, victory over Raith Rovers in the Ladbrokes Championship tomorrow will break Bill Struth's 95-year record and see him become the first manager to start his career at the club with nine consecutive wins.

The 52-year-old Englishman knows there is a storm brewing outside, though, and is clear when asked whether this week's off-field events – with Green, Whyte, David Whitehouse and Paul Clark all arrested and appearing at Glasgow Sheriff Court – heighten his desire to fulfil his mantra of sending the fans home happy.

"Yes, very much so," he replied. "When we went to Airdrie, there were more than 7000 there. There were banks of Rangers fans at Queen of the South on Sunday.

"With 50,000 at Ibrox, that is our responsibility. We use that message every week with the players, but the right players enjoy that responsibility. The wrong players drown under it."

Warburton does not believe, however, that the long-running police investigations into Green's takeover of Rangers will prove a troublesome diversion as he endeavours to return the club to the top division of the domestic game.

"I don't see why that should be the case," he said. "I think football fans want to follow their football club and look at how their team performs.

"They want to enjoy matchday and the build-up and get value for money.

"If we are giving them that, that's our job. If they enjoy what they see and the results are going our way, that should be the overriding factor."

He understands what the Rangers support have been through, though, and remembers his own reaction during his time at Brentford to the news of a Scottish institution going belly-up being broadcasted across the nation.

"You couldn't fail to see it," he recalled. "Every football fan up and down the country knew what was going on because of the size of Glasgow Rangers.

"We watched it on TV and it was heartbreaking to see, really, some of it. Our job as a football department is to come in now and try to play the right kind of attractive football that the fans enjoy. If we do that, we have made some strides in the right direction."

Warburton would also make some strides in the right direction in terms of opening up lines of communication with referees in Scotland following some scathing criticism of the way they have started the season.

"We did a lot of work down south, working with referees to see how we can help them," he said.

"They have a really tough job, but such is the level of what's at stake that their decisions are under scrutiny.

"Can we help in terms of what we see, how our players react, why they react, how we could improve? Come in to training sessions, for example, and referee an eight-a-side game.

"We have to learn from every game and that shouldn't just be reserved for the players only."