Garish images have started springing to mind when one considers just how doomed this current Rangers board of directors is.
Clinging to power, presiding over idiotic policies, and now banning the press, the only place these Rangers directors are heading for are the exits doors, and fast.
Weirdly, in the context of this Ibrox farce, I cannot stop thinking about the last days of Nicolae Ceausescu, the wretched, doom-laden Romanian dictator who fell to his disgrace amid countryside heaps of manure in 1989.
This is what it feels like with this current Rangers board - they are despised, they are hopeless and done-for. Even fleeing from the top of the Ibrox main stand in a helicopter could only save them a few more days or weeks.
The integrity questions over Dave King remain, and they will not go away. But what does not remain is even one morsel of doubt over this Rangers boardroom of desperados being finished.
The idiocy, the sheer crassness, in trying to pull off the wheeze of a London venue for the club's upcoming EGM induced nothing but tearful laughter. Just what kind of half-arsed stunt was this?
Why in heaven's name would a Rangers FC general meeting ever be held in London? Well, I think we all know why.
The directors wanted to save themselves a barracking, some heartfelt interrogation, and they probably also believed - and this really is desperate - that some small-time Rangers shareholders might be precluded from voting on the key motion regarding their own removal.
Did these directors seriously believe that anyone watching these Rangers events would think there was a scintilla of credibility in choosing such an EGM venue? It smacked of an eleventh hour, at-the-death attempt at self-preservation.
And now, in the past 24 hours, comes a banning-order on the Daily Record from setting foot anywhere inside Ibrox. Another Ceausescu-style wheeze.
Ask any journalist about this - being banned is the ultimate crown of thorns. In 99 cases out of 100, when a newspaper or reporter is barred from entry from a football ground, it usually means they are in the right and the tyrant doling out the ban has done something wrong or is feeling vulnerable.
The Record must be crowing about this self-destructive gift handed down to them by Rangers. It won't affect their coverage of the club at all, in fact, I'll bet it will only add fresh energy to their pursuit of Rangers in the weeks ahead.
There is another aspect here about Rangers banning the Daily Record which drips with irony.
At the start of this Rangers tragedy, the Record actually got a lot wrong. Principally via James Traynor, the paper egged on Craig Whyte, gullibly believed in him, and blithely wrote of his tens of millions which were set to restore Rangers. It was not the paper's finest hour.
Since then, though, the Record has had some success in making up for its earlier gaffes, and has been, I would say, at the front of the tabloid queue in reporting and analysing the misdeeds at Ibrox.
In recent times the Record has clearly rattled the Ibrox power-brokers, and this week's banning of the newspaper - or any newspaper - is the ultimate act of a doomed regime. This Rangers board - they are saying it themselves - is finished.
The weeks ahead are sure to be messy, and it will all be quite a media feeding frenzy. But come this EGM - wherever it is held - and its immediate aftermath it is hard to see bloodshed in the Rangers boardroom being avoided.
Dave King, meanwhile, will face his own battle. It is noted that, via his own PR people, he has taken to flaunting that old letter from SARS purporting to pronounce him fit and proper for Rangers jurisdiction.
SARS, it stands to reason, holds a pretty dim view of King. And, unfortunately, having been dragged into a high court by SARS and duly convicted in South Africa, it is now the SFA's turn to reach a decision on King. This is now the point.
King has developed a weird habit of proclaiming that all was settled in his favour in South Africa - even when convicted in court and handed the equivalent of an 82-year prison sentence. His recent charm offensive in front of Scottish journalists - and King can be extremely charming - cannot hide this effrontery.
The bruising slog over Rangers goes on. It is a dirty war involving quite a few shattered reputations.
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