Ally McCoist can ask key question: What happens next? McCoist is perhaps the one man to have emerged from the Rangers debacle with the remotest degree of credit. While Craig Whyte sits motionless in his Monaco apartment, watching the carnage unfold on Sky Sports News whilst enigmatically stroking a white cat, while administrators and lawyers plough down dead ends in dark boardrooms, it has been McCoist who has been cast as the spiritual leader of the club: as the voice of Rangers FC, rather than Rangers PLC. That we have reached a point where the wider interest of one of Britain's greatest football clubs is in the hands of a man whose foremost leadership experience is as a former team captain on A Question Of Sport is a bleak measure of this farce. But just as every disaster movie needs a hero, it also needs its pantomime villain. I suspect most of us harbour a sneaky admiration for Whyte and his deliciously louche genius. It takes some cojones to approach a football club and offer to purchase it using its own money, and more still to win their smiling acquiescence. Remember that in late 2010, when he took over as owner, he was feted as a conquering hero, lifting the deadening yoke of David Murray and promising £25 million in transfer fees (out, not in). Mugging off an entire football club is no easy feat. Just as with Fergus McCann at Celtic, posterity may offer a more revisionist view of Whyte. Fair enough, it will say, he has taken a 140-year-old club to the brink of liquidation and thrown the whole of the Scottish Premier League into turmoil. But as a consequence of his nefarious malfeasance, the entire Scottish footballing public has also received a thorough education in tax law. That's bound to come in handy at some stage. Every cloud, you know. What is not altogether clear is how, in the sainted tradition of movie bad guys, Whyte will ultimately meet his comeuppance. "The SFA came and cracked Rangers one while they were down," Neil McCann spluttered on Sky yesterday. No matter if a buyer comes in, this guy still owns the club, the training ground and the players. Do you think he's going to walk away if he's not going to make some money out of it? And so the duty of salvaging Rangers's honour falls to the people's hero McCoist. His financial and legal expertise may be negligible and his business experience modest, but he does have one crucial edge. I propose a high-stakes game of "What Happened Next," followed by a "Mystery Guest" tie-breaker if needed. Lose, and Whyte must give up his remaining shares immediately. Win, and everybody has to get off his back. It is perhaps the only way left to mug off that most resistant of rascals.