Celtic Winning The Title On Coronation Weekend Would Be Sweet … But It Won’t Happen.

The papers today have raised the amusing possibility that Celtic could win the title during the weekend of the coronation, and whilst this is a thigh-slapping laugh-out-loud possibility, I am not exactly going to get my hopes up.

Because that’s the weekend of the first game after the split.

But provided we’ve won our games up to that weekend, and provided we win that weekend, that still leaves one fly in the soup. The club from Ibrox would still have to drop something somewhere.

Because otherwise we’d be going into that weekend with a 12 point lead and emerging from it with a 12 point lead. The goal difference would be vastly superior and it would take a Barings Bank style collapse for us not secure the title, but it would not be official. Nobody would be engraving our name on the trophy quite yet.

The only scenario in which it would happen is if the SPFL provided us with the league decider ready-made at Ibrox. They will never agree to do that in a million years. In just one of the many ways that our national game is a backwards facing joke, the governing bodies will never, in a million years, schedule that out of fear of the consequences.

That game will be the third or fourth after the split, when the issue is supposed to be settled once and for all.

This is the only country in Europe where a league decider between the two top teams is something to fear rather than embrace, and we know which club’s fans are responsible for that. We know that what the governing body fears is having to contend with The Peepul in a rage. That rage would be even more pronounced if we interrupted their coronation party.

I don’t think it will happen.

You only need to listen to the way the managers this weekend are talking about the coming games – relying on luck rather than anything in the style of play or basic optimism about the task at hand – to see that. The Ibrox club will almost certainly win its remaining games and so will we … which means the title will be decided the following week.

How glorious though if I turned out to be wrong. How sweet it would be if we were able to clinch it on their weekend of jubilee? It would be poetic, wouldn’t it?