Michael Beale has slammed The Sun over their use of an interview in which he explained that settling the SPFL after each team had played each other twice would be a fair way to decide this season.
Celtic have opened up a 13 point gap with just eight matches left to play but there has been so sign of how this season will be determined if the fixtures can’t be completed.
Steven Gerrard’s assistant has forwarded some ideas of his own including winding the clock back to the first 22 matches of the campaign!
Over 22 games against each side home and away Celtic picked up 58 points with Beale’s side collecting 58 but still to host St Johnstone at Ibrox.
Football writers have such a fantastic opportunity to write about the game!
But certain ones prefer to turn a positive interview on the Scottish game (that included a question on promotion & relegation) & twist it for their own agenda
Interview below https://t.co/cstoFbHfex pic.twitter.com/FPyJswMEXs
— Michael Beale (@MichaelBeale) March 18, 2020
In the final third of the regular season Celtic have stretched 11 points further ahead despite a punishing schedule of having to play Motherwell, Aberdeen and Livingston away from home for a second time.
In contrast Beale’s side haven’t played a second away game against any top six side with Aberdeen, Hibs and Livingston making a second visit to Ibrox.
Apart from the bizarre null and void claim the ‘Halfway Theory’ is one that could deny Celtic the title with Beale’s own website carrying his views in full.
This is the impossible question to answer. Everyone will have a different opinion that is somehow biased by their own clubs situation. Maybe each league will give the member clubs a chance to vote on the outcome. So for example, Liverpool being so far ahead isn’t a hard decision to vote on as its 20+ points…… but it’s the other end of the table where the issues lie and relegation can have a huge impact on clubs, player contracts, careers and even the future stability of the whole club financially.
The same can be said for promoted clubs in a positive way. So we are in a very difficult place that no one wants to be in and that you cannot plan for. Promotion and relegation is the big concern. Unless the leagues can be split in a fair and equal way. So a league with less teams like Scotland can decide to not predict into the future – but go back to a point where each team has played each other twice and use that as a fair reference of the teams level over the equal part of the season.
If the positions are the same now as at that point then I think it’s a fairer reference point as each team has played each other twice. But, we must never determine relegation based on a points total where each team has played a different mix of games/opponents and nothing is mathematically decided. This would kill all sporting integrity.
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On Tuesday UEFA announced that they hoped to have domestic leagues completed by June 30 but there is still no sign of when the SPFL season can be resumed.