Ally McCoist has continued his campaign to undermine Celtic’s likely 2019/20 Premiership title success.
The former Rangers manager appears to have a diary fully booked with media appointments, cracking jokes on TalkSPORT alongside regular comments questioning the validity of a title success.
No alternative is ever offered. Everyone in football wants the current season to be completed but already in France and Holland a resumption before September 1 has been dismissed by their Governments.
Like Liverpool, Celtic have built up an impressive lead going into the final stages of the season- adding 11 points to their advantage over the last 10 matches- but if he can find a way to question the success McCoist will happily reach for his asterisk.
Covering his interview with beIN Sports, the Daily Record reports:
I think no matter what happens there’s going to be a lot of people upset. There are going to be splits. Now, you’ve got to say straight away – and I include Liverpool in the same scenario as Celtic – they deserve the opportunity to win the title outright for themselves.
If you asked Liverpool, Celtic, Dundee United or whoever it might be that might get presented this championship, they would want the right and the responsibility to go and do it themselves. Hopefully that will still be the case.
I think the relegation issue is a bigger problem. Because if Liverpool are given the title, and Celtic are given the title, and Dundee United are given the title no matter what happens, through no fault of their own, there will be an asterisk against it. So there’ll be a question mark against it.
That’s not Liverpool’s fault, it’s not Celtic’s fault, it’s not Dundee United’s fault. They want the opportunity to try and win it. If it’s not going to happen and it’s given to them, there will be an asterisk against it.
We can sit here and say: ‘Liverpool were going to win the league, Celtic were going to win the league’ but the fact of the matter is that in the rules it clearly states the title will be awarded after all the games have been played and the team that wins the league wins the league. And that makes sense.
We can argue, of course we can argue, about should Liverpool get the title, should Celtic get the title, should Dundee United get the title.
Since McCoist moved into management in 2011 Celtic have won 8 SPL/SPFL titles, 5 Scottish Cup’s and 5 League Cup’s.
Soon after being drawn against Celtic in the 2014/15 League Cup semi-final McCoist resigned from the manager’s job at Ibrox to go on gardening leave for 12 months.
CLICK HERE– Unfair and unjust, McCoist’s April 23 claim over Celtic’s title.