Jackson’s latest is typically awful. Celtic fans should be laughing at him.

Over and over again, he manages to do it. Over and over again Jackson seems to find bottom. Today’s article,on the takeover, is awful. It is full of suppositions and daft statements. It shows how little this clown (and others) have learned. Ironically, it opens with Craig Whyte and how that takeover unravelled.

And we all know why that’s ironic, of course. Without further preamble, let’s get into it because it’s not worth spending more time on this nonsense than we need to.

(Ibrox) takeover finally concludes Craig Whyte catastrophe but there is a tinge of sadness too – Keith Jackson 

Craig Whyte? That was thirteen years and a whole other club ago for Christ’s sake. Did the intervening years not happen at all? 

Our man broke the stunning story of the 49ers interest and says the deal being completed draws a line under a dark chapter for the club. 

Your “man” was spoon-fed a feel-good story after the club had crashed out of the Scottish Cup. Don’t pretend there was actual journalism involved here. As for “a dark chapter”; the second best team in the country has consistently finished second over a long period of time. What a hardship. Ask the fans of clubs who routinely finish outside the top five. That statement reeks of Ibrox entitlement. 

There once was a man from Motherwell whose wealth was off the radar … stop me if you think you’ve heard this one before. 

Uhuh. And do you want to own up to being the author of those particular words? No? I thought not. You absolute charlatan. You swallowed a press release, that was the sum total of your due diligence on Whyte. You claimed that he was a billionaire without even doing the slightest digging into that claim. As far as I’m concerned your credibility went right there and you will never get it back. That’s why everything you’re about to say should be viewed as suspect. You’ve not done any due diligence here either. 

Because the unmitigated catastrophe which was unleashed upon (Ibrox) from the moment Craig Whyte’s pointy, plastic shoes first stepped over the threshold has now come to a conclusion.

Has it? Based on what? These people haven’t done anything yet. 

Friday’s confirmation of Andrew Cavenagh’s US led takeover has allowed the Ibrox club to emerge from the rubble which Whyte left behind back in 2011 when he tossed a pound coin across Sir David Murray’s desk and set in motion a chain of events which would have near apocalyptic consequences.

That “rubble” buried the old club. They are never emerging from that grave. And to blame Whyte for it is ludicrous. Those wheels were set in motion by Murray long before Whyte ever became known to the world. Everything subsequent to Whyte is just being airbrushed out of the narrative and there is a good reason for that. Jackson and others cheered Charles Green to the rafters. They cheered Mike Ashley in the door. They celebrated the Easdales rise to the top table and then they wrote every single thing they are writing now about the winds of change about Dave King. No wonder they want to trace all the chaos to Whyte. It absolves them of any responsibility of their own. 

Fourteen years later, it’s finally over.

Is it? Are the Ibrox club champions? Are they in the Champions League Groups? Hell, do they even have a manager yet? What exactly is “over”? And how does this joker, or anyone else, know that anything is “over” when these guys have been in charge for only five minutes? What a ridiculous statement to make. 

Cavenagh and his backers from the San Francisco 49ers have drawn a line under all of it by snapping up 51 per cent of the club’s shares and taking control from a beleaguered, fractured regime which was doing nothing much more than fighting the fires which were left smouldering behind. And not all that well. 

Their revolution won’t be completed until 23 June; at that point it’ll be too late for any of the “real Ranjurs men” to hold them to account. Because, of course, the 49ers aren’t Cavenagh’s backers at all. And we still don’t know who is. The contempt for the current Ibrox board, I’ll cover in a second. 

They tried their best and they ought to be thanked for their services, even if time and again they were exposed for being hopelessly out of their depth. 

Out of their depth? How? Because they couldn’t bridge an unbridgeable gap? Because they quite literally ran out of the will to keep pouring good money down the drain? These people kept on the lights with their own cash. All the same difficulties which they faced are being faced by the new board. The difference is, there’s no emotional investment now. They are of a different sort entirely. 

There’s a tinge of sadness in there too. 

Yeah, it’ll be the popping of champagne corks and the peeing of the pants that stops that from being readily visible. 

It was around this time last year, for example, that former chairman John Bennett – a thoroughly decent man and a genuinely honest broker – discovered to his horror that outgoing CEO James Bisgrove had effectively rendered Rangers as homeless before bolting to a new post in the Middle East. 

Preposterous that they are still pushing this rubbish. 

During his time in charge Bennett was chewed up and spat back out by a club he cared so passionately for that he was prepared to pump more than £20million of his own money into it just to keep the wolf from the door. 

Yeah … and in due course people at that club will be wishing that his sort of person was still represented on the board, or had some authority within it. 

The collateral damage done to his own reputation and, worse still, to his health and well being was deeply unedifying.

And not one acknowledgement that much of the pressure that was put on him was being put on him by … the writer and others in the mainstream media, and in many ways because they continually feed the Ibrox fan’s sense of grievance at being second. 

But, by offering up the entirety of his shareholding to Cavenagh’s consortium, Bennett too can now achieve some sort of closure on the trauma. 

In other words, he can dump the responsibility onto them and leave the Ibrox fans wishing that they’d stuck with the devil they know. 

Dave King is another major player and former chairman who can finally walk away from the business having sold up his stock. There will be plenty of people who will be glad to see the back of him, this column included. 

And yet he was cheered through the front door by the columnist and many others who now would very much like us all to forget it. If King is such a bad man – as we said all along, of course – why does anyone trust the people he has chosen to deliver his shares to? For God’s sake, is no-one even thinking about that? 

King’s combative and egotistical qualities make him a hard man to like. But, regardless of his many character flaws, the fact of the matter is he stepped up to lead the revolt which ultimately cleared out Mike Ashley’s junta from the boardroom almost 10 years ago to the day.

Mike Ashley. A top businessman and bona fide billionaire who … tried to run the club like a professional organisation. A bit like the Americans will. Uhuh. 

And it was the availability of his 13 per cent holding which brought Cavenagh to the table in the first place. King, then, has played his part in the healing process.

You presume it’s a healing process. Without knowing for sure what’s really going on here. Without doing the slightest bit of digging. 

Another former chairman, Paul Murray, helped pull the entire deal together. It was Murray who introduced Cavenagh and King to one another.

According to King. Who last week said Gerrard would walk back to Ibrox and never wanted to leave in the first place; the first part of which has been exposed as nonsense and the second part of which I know full well is a barefaced lie. 

And because of this intervention, a deal to buy out a controlling interest in the club became a viable possibility.

People desperate to sell their shares found people willing to buy them. Wow. Revolutionary. Cause that’s never happened before, has it? 

In fact – and not for the first time throughout all these years of chaos – Murray’s part in the proceedings as a man of genuine integrity and unbendable best intentions has been hugely significant.

Paul Murray is a laugh-out-loud joke figure, even amongst Ibrox fans. Imagine trying to polish that particular turd at a time like this. 

He too can now breathe a sigh of relief and step away from the drama, safe in the knowledge that his football club is in the wealthiest hands imaginable.

Good Christ. “The wealthiest hands imaginable.” I can imagine wealthier, actually, but that’s not the point. Paul Murray has been out of the front line for years. He walked away a long, long time ago and I bet he’s happier for it. 

Unlike the list of names above, health insurance mogul Cavenagh can’t lay claim to being a staunch Rangers man. As a matter of fact, he’s a lifelong and avid Arsenal supporter and it was this enthusiasm for the Gunners which sparked his interest in buying his way into the British game.

If he’s such a rich guy, if he’s such a credible figure, why, then isn’t he being sounded out as a potential investor over there? And there were easier, and cheaper, ways to “buy into the British game” … safer ones too than spending the money on the Ibrox club. The truth is, neither Jackson nor anyone else knows who really controls the club at this moment in time. Come 23 June they have no chance of finding out. 

He is aware of the historic links between the two clubs dating back more than a century when Rangers came to Arsenal’s aid during a time of financial crisis and bought shares in the London club. 

Historic links between the clubs. This old chestnut again. 

Those shares were later pawned off by Whyte for £230,000 in a scandalous, disgraceful act after he had plunged Rangers into administration. The funds were not even paid in the club’s bank account. 

If that’s an allegation he should come right out and say it. 

Cavenagh will be familiar with the whole sordid story and of the sense of fury it created.

Oh will he? I suspect that he is aware of it, just not in the way Jackson thinks.

In other words, he takes over as chairman with a very strong idea of the scale of the responsibility which comes with sitting in the big seat and the way in which the position has been abused over time. And that’s a good starting point. 

Birthday card Hallmark sentiment rubbish. 

Cavenagh has cleared the decks in order to treat this project with the time and respect it deserves.

Time! Haha! Nobody at Ibrox ever gets time. We’ll see how long Jackson and others remain in love with this guy and his regime. 

He stepped down from his full time position as CEO of his own insurance company ParetoHealth in January of this year – just a couple of months after his initial talks with King and Murray.

Post hoc ergo propter hoc. “After it therefore because of it.” A classic example of what we call a “logical fallacy.” Just because something comes after something else it does not mean that there it was caused by it. 

That life changing decision has enabled him to pursue his ambition of owning and running a European football club and he has been clever and well connected enough to bring Paraag Marathe and the 49ers to the table. 

Or they have spotted an opportunity to get in on the act on the cheap. 

It really does amount to a stunning coup and the long suffering (Ibrox) support are quite right to be thrilled about it. 

That very much remains to be seen. 

The Americans will make mistakes along the way. Of course they will. Who knows, they might be making one right now in the shape of the recruitment process to secure a new manager. Or head coach.

Or they won’t make mistakes. They will run the club as a “for profit” company and nothing else will matter to them. Nothing else. 

But, even if they headhunt someone who is not even remotely ready or qualified for the position, the smart money says that Cavenagh and his colleagues will get it right eventually.

Eventually. And the Ibrox fans who have “suffered enough” have the patience for that, do they? Or the will to wait indefinitely if that’s what it takes? I think not. 

That they have identified Nils Koppen as part of the problem rather than the solution – and by relieving the bungling Belgian of his duties as head of recruitment over the weekend – they have taken a shrewd first step.

Rinse and repeat. Rinse and repeat. 

But, early teething issues or not, given time they will almost certainly prove themselves to be the real deal and this summer’s regime change will be looked back upon as a crucial, landmark moment in the club’s history. 

We’ll see about that. 

It simply had to happen in order for (the club) to become relevant again in their own back yard and to rediscover the sense of direction which has gone missing ever since Whyte walked down Edmiston Drive.

Like I said, did the intervening time not happen? What a joke.

The response from Celtic will provide another layer of fascination to the picture now that Uncle Sam has upped the ante on them.

Upped the ante? When did this happen? Was I asleep and missed that?

The champions have grown fond of their status as the dominators of all they survey. They are unlikely to give it up easily.

Just say “unlikely to give it up” and leave it like that, okay?

But even so, for the first time in a decade and a half, they’re about to have to deal with a credible and serious threat coming from the other side of town.

Yeah cause this is the first time we’ve heard that, isn’t it?