Rangers Football Club has seen its fair share of highs and lows in recent years.

With just ten days until Rangers kick off their competitive season at Tynecastle next weekend, it's fair to say it's been less than a positive summer for our supporters with two main lowlights dominating the discussion in recent weeks.

Under the right conditions, under extremes of pressure and heat, the atoms of humble carbon are re-ordered into the sparkling, solidity of a coveted mineral. These conditions only occur at a few select locations on Earth. They also occur when playing for Rangers. Needless to say, instead of forming into diamonds, huge quantities of raw material remain as graphite or are folded into oceans of molten rock and are forgotten. Interestingly enough, diamonds can also be formed by asteroids strikes, similar to that which wiped out the dinosaurs.

The media, government and the governing bodies don’t really have a problem with offensive or sectarian chanting at football. We know this through their actions over a suitably long period of time and a sizable sample set of evidence from many supports. They don’t even appear to have a particular problem with questionable political messages, metallic missiles and fans encroaching onto the pitch with menace. However, they do have a problem when it's Rangers fans doing the chanting.