March 15 had been earmarked by Celtic fans for a title party following the Glasgow derby.
Neil Lennon’s side were strong favourites to extend their lead at the top of the table to 16 points with the home side in disarray on the back of three defeats in their last four matches.
On Friday, just before noon, it was announced that Scottish football had been suspended until further notice leaving thousands of people with empty weekends.
Almost as soon as the SFA and SPFL announced the suspension of football speculation turned to what would with the current season.
Three options have been discussed:
- Wait to play the remaining fixtures
- Declare the season null and void
- The current positions are declared as the final positions
Overnight a number of newspapers appear to have been given details of the latest Coronavirus sanctions with football impacted by ‘mass gatherings.
According to The Sun option 3 is about to become reality which would give Celtic their ninth successive title.
With a 13 point lead- despite having played more difficult fixtures such as two visits to Aberdeen, Livingston and Motherwell- there is no reasonable argument for anything other than declaring the current positions as the final ones.
EXCLUSIVE: Boris Johnson set to declare season OVER with Celtic crowned champions and Hearts relegated ?https://t.co/QqJHUlm0lI pic.twitter.com/HaQ5kEolzk
— Scottish Sun Sport (@scotsunsport) March 14, 2020
— Deshaun Del (@cdelaney92) March 15, 2020
WELCOME TO THE PARTY ??
— Shaun Edouard ? (@EDOUARD26602107) March 15, 2020
Absolutely delicious ?
— Disco abd elhamed ?? (@Davidbeaton20) March 14, 2020
Boris Johnson here for 10 in a row!!
— Henrik Edouardsson (@Celtic_3x3) March 15, 2020
never thought of that alec rae meltdown incoming
— Allisterjack (@karlcomptonfans) March 15, 2020
They put Boris in to power and now he’s turning his back on them. It just gets better
— Stevie Chalmers (@StevieChalmers2) March 14, 2020
— David Binnie (@DavidBinnie76) March 14, 2020
Meltdown incoming
Congratulations to @CelticFC ,absolutely blew the league apart. Horses rangers to title by 13 points
— Kennedy ?? (@KennedyCFC67) March 14, 2020
— Notorious-celt (@CelticNotorious) March 14, 2020
Well who else are they gonna give it to? ?
— ?? (@CraigCFC_) March 14, 2020
So looks like 9IAR is done then they might as well just give us the Scottish Cup as we’d have won that too Quadruple Treble it is then ? #welcometotheparty ?
— Griff (@MildooWolf) March 14, 2020