A is for Administration
A word the media seems only to vaguely understand; it is a process which ends in one of two ways.
It ends with a club coming out of it, or it ends in a club dying.
Hearts exited it. Rangers were swallowed up in it and vanished down the plug-hole. They did not survive.
Nor do clubs that come out of administration get relegated; Sevco has long claimed to have been “relegated” but even the SFA rulebook does not allow for any club to be sanctioned by demotion to the bottom tier just for running into financial trouble.
Administration is far too common in Scottish football; it would be far less so if clubs could be convinced to adopt the Financial Fair Play procedures which protect them and sporting integrity in other countries; almost every league in Europe in fact.