The SPFL statement issued yesterday may well have stated that there will be no further action taken against Rangers over their use of EBTs, and set out the legal rationale behind the decision, but it would be naïve in the extreme to think that the issue has now been settled in the minds of fans.

No matter what the SPFL said, whether that was to move forward with stripping titles or not, they were never going to please everyone.

There was always going to be a section on one side of the argument who will not easily move on, and an independent review is unlikely to appease the supporters who feel wronged either.

I can understand the point of view of those fans who feel uneasy about the decision not to take any further action. But from the SPFL’s point of view, it was clearly a case of being damned if they did, and damned if they didn’t.

It seems clear to me that there should be an asterisk placed beside the years in question where Rangers were artificially inflated by their use of EBTs, and to deny that, I think, would be churlish.

I’ve covered football in Italy and Turkey when they had their own cases of serious financial mismanagement at some of their biggest clubs, and there is no easy way of resolving these issues.

But whether title-stripping is the answer or not, the one thing that is for sure is that this is an extremely difficult period for Scottish football.

Being in America now, it has allowed me to look at the whole situation in Scottish football currently with something of an outsider’s perspective, and I do think that as difficult as it may be, the game really does need all of the clubs to now come together.

Looking in from the outside of that Scottish football bubble, I can certainly see the point that Stewart Milne had when the Aberdeen chairman said last week that everyone involved in the game has to move on, even though as a fan, I can see why other supporters might not feel that is so easy to do.

But I truly believe the only way we can plot a course forward for our national sport is to work together, and that means everyone pulling in a similar direction.

Rangers have to buy back into Scottish football and play an active role in moving the game forward, and by the same token, the other clubs have to accept that they are very much part of it.

I increasingly found last season as I covered the Scottish Premiership that the game in our country has become rather po-faced at the top level. It isn’t life or death.

We’re supposed to be enjoying a sport that we all love, but with the bigger clubs I found one-upmanship on a scale I’d never encountered before, and the constant grandstanding does become tiresome.

When I think about Scottish football, what I really care about is what goes in between those white lines, and I’m sure the majority of supporters up and down the country feel the same.

But I’ve said this before - and it is worth repeating - we are pretty peculiar in our country that we spend so much time talking about all the other stuff that goes on around the football, rather than the football itself.

Unfortunately, but perhaps understandably in regards to the legitimacy of the honours earned by Rangers during the period in question, this debate will rumble on for many years to come. There was always going to be an outcry at the decision no matter what it was.

One can only hope that some day, a consensus can be found so that everyone who cares about Scottish football can come together for the good of the game.