Fair Game report into Swindon Town's financials appears blind to the on-the-ground experience of many supporters

It is all too uncommon in football, where oversight exists more in principle than practice, and unscrupulous or nefarious owners can run free with the wild abandon of a prairie horse.

As a result, down the years there have been far too many examples of clubs going to wall, decades of history tarnished or, worst of all, lost to one man or a small group of men’s whim and whimsy.

So when Swindon Town initially announced the intention to have their annual accounts analysed by the football finance pressure group Fair Game, as part of a transparency drive pledged by then incoming chairman Clem Morfuni, there was an understandable optimism.