IT should have been a time for 18 holes and a couple of pints.

The morning sun was blazing down on an Ayrshire golf course and everywhere you looked there was a familiar Scottish football face, munching on bacon rolls, sipping coffee, practising his swing or laughing at the pink and green breeks on Andy Walker, a number so fluorescently psychedelic he presumably won his bet.

Johan Mjallby, Ian Durrant, Andy Goram, Gordon Smith, Murdo MacLeod, Billy Stark, Pat Bonner, Alan Rough and many others turned out for the inaugural Tommy Burns Memorial event at Dundonald Links. The mood was chilled out. Football men at play.

And then came Ally McCoist: a little late, as ever, and instantly a blur of constant movement. He shook hands, he circulated at breakneck speed, he cracked jokes as he sped past old pals, he posed for photographs with Tommy's son, Jonathan, to get the fund-raising event as much publicity as possible . . . and then he bolted for his car and was off again. Not quite gone in 60 seconds, but not far off it. It was pretty knackering just watching him. This cameo showed two things about McCoist: firstly, he went to a considerable effort to do his bit for the Tommy Burns cause without having the time to unwind with a round of golf and, secondly, his schedule is still as hectic in late May as any other manager's is at the height of a season.

Everyone else is on holiday but consider the week Rangers have: today their administrators, Duff & Phelps, intend to publish the Company Voluntary Arrangement (CVA) proposal drafted by Charles Green's consortium. Tomorrow their application to the Court of Session for a Judicial Review of the Scottish Football Association's 12-month transfer embargo is resumed. On Wednesday the Scottish Premier League will meet, for the third time, to discuss and vote on Financial Fair Play regulations which could have major implications for Rangers. Thursday is the final day of the temporary pay cut agreed by the players in order to spare massive redundancies. On Friday the club (unable to start the process of selling season tickets) becomes heavily loss-making again and the meter starts to run on Green and his colleagues: without their money to meet the running costs, Rangers would have to start selling players simply to survive.

There is no end to it all. It can be dramatic, it can be boring, but it is relentless. The country has Rangers fatigue. People are fed up hearing about them, fed up reading about them and – be absolutely assured – fed up writing about them. While obsessives (and Rangers supporters justifiably fearful about their club's survival) pore over the minutiae of every aspect of this vast story, most have switched off to it and will re-engage only when there is a truly significant development.

It's remarkable that Rangers have been in administration for 105 days and almost the only unarguable point is the fact they are in administration. Everything else is still being processed. We don't know if Green's consortium is the real deal; we don't know the verdict of 'the big tax case'; we don't know if HMRC and Ticketus will give the thumbs-up to a CVA; we don't know if the SPL will be able to impose Financial Fair Play rules without inflaming supporters who have hair-trigger sensitivities towards perceived severity or leniency shown towards a potential newco Rangers; we don't know if Steven Davis, Allan McGregor et al are going to scarper on the cheap; we don't know if the SPL investigation into alleged undisclosed payments to Rangers players will lead to them being stripped of titles, exonerated, or something in between, and we don't know, well, lots more besides.

Duff & Phelps and David Grier are being investigated by the Insolvency Practitioners Agency. Craig Whyte and Gary Withey are being investigated by Strathclyde Police. Whyte's lawyers, Collyer Bristow, are being sued by Duff & Phelps. Rangers under Sir David Murray are being investigated by the SPL for alleged undisclosed payments, and by a First Tier Tax Tribunal for tax underpayments. The SFA is being challenged by Rangers at the Court of Session.

The web of investigations is a headache-inducing mess. And while others look for distractions – Euro 2012, the Olympics, the new season, anything – the daily diet of Rangers will grind on through them all.

And Another Thing-

THERE must be something about Scottish football which dulls the brain and sucks the outspokenness out of people. Normally the Dutch can be relied upon to be candid, yet after the embarrassment of Scotland's defeat in the USA, Mark Wotte, the SFA's performance director, wrote on Twitter: "We have to look at it as a process I think. Germany losing 5-3, Holland 1-2 all experiences make you better."

Compare that tepid acceptance with the response from Alexi Lalas, the former American player and now commentator: "Scotland should be ashamed in the way they lost," he said. How much more reassuring it would have been if that, rather than passive, mealy-mouthed tolerance, had been the reaction from within the SFA.