Rangers step closer to the abyss with each controversy But back to the chronicle of days. It is three weeks since Green declared that the current Rangers team is the worst in the club's history. More precisely, that was when he said it again, having first uttered the condemnation a month previously. The repetition triggered a wild conspiracy theory - or, rather, yet another one. For a plain spoken Yorkshireman, Green has had an extraordinary tendency to feature in Byzantine conjectures. The "Working His Ticket" believers hold that he said his bit about Rangers being supremely bad in order to force a breach between him and Ally McCoist, in which Green would inevitably be forced out by the wrath of the Rangers support and could then get on with flogging his shares and making off with his profit - cue the Easdale brothers. According to that theory, when that failed initially, he went after McCoist's backroom team and, for good measure, threw in the ethnic comments about Ahmad. Then there is the "Buddy Of The Buddies" church, where the congregation insists that Green prevails upon St Mirren to vote against Scottish league reconstruction so that the status quo would remain and Rangers would go up a division, thus playing a new set of teams and making it easier to sell season tickets to fans for whom the novelty of SFL football has worn thin. In return he would use his contacts to find a buyer for the Paisley club. St Mirren, on the other hand, insist nothing of the kind lay behind the vote. And, of course, there are those whose hymn is "Glasgow is Green and Whyte" - believers in the Dual Creation doctrine, based on the text: "And the Word was with Charles Green but the Word was secretly recorded by Craig Whyte and means that court actions could burn for all eternity." Amazingly, we might never discover the truth, although with the amount of man-hours poured into various police investigations, tax tribunals, SFA and SPL hearings and (this week's development) a "forensic probe" by the accountants who advised in last year's takeover plus a firm of lawyers, you would think somebody would come up with a credible timeline to lead us all out of confusion. Of course, Green denies any wrongdoing. What is now coalescing as the most alarming possibility for many Rangers supporters is that the imagined return to parity with Celtic - three years to get back to the SPL and the Old Firm rivalry - looks increasingly fragile with each fresh controversy. The fear is that Rangers could become a basket case a la Portsmouth to the extent that they might never regain their former strength. The greatest challenge facing the Ibrox board now is to preside over a period of stability in which having nothing much to report is a virtue. That said, Rangers" travails continue to attract interest far beyond the confines of Govan. In one of his last actions as chief executive, Green gave an interview to the Japanese newspaper Asahi Shimbun which, even in the age of online babble, still has a circulation of eight million for its morning edition. Green managed - or chose - to avoid any ethnic slurs in this instance and is quoted as saying: "It is no point for us to stay in the Scottish League. We have been working on moving to the English league, even if we have to start in the bottom tier. Celtic has the same idea. Meanwhile, McCoist, said: "We have made the first step towards the reborn." Good luck with that, Alastair.