Yip - he took a step back, scanned the horizon, and saw Celtic - it's all he was ever likely to see - he's not the only one.
I don't give a flying f'ck about Celtic, I'd much rather they'd gone tits-up, but them losing £10m a season is the exact opposite of Scottish Football being damaged - it's Scottish Football being improved.
This long winding, tedious, journey 'Rangers' has been on has benefited a load of clubs that will make much more of their unexpected wee windfall than Celtic ever would have with yon £10m - and I'm ceratinly not saying that any of those clubs needed it, these are clubs that have stayed solvent for well over a century without seeing hide-not-hair of the Old Firm.
Scottish Football is about to be about two muckle, narrow-minded, embarrassing and exceptionally ugly teams again - and it will remain that way - Scottish football is the poorer for it.
Richard Gough got to find out where Annan was - he'll won't give them a second thought ever again.