Steven Gerrard’s Glasgow Rangers are 13 points behind Neil Lennon’s Celtic.
Celtic may be 13 points clear at the top, but Steven Gerrard’s Rangers will still fancy their chances of catching Neil Lennon’s side.
Of course, Celtic are the favourites for the Scottish Premiership title this season and they have won the championship for the last eight campaigns.
However, Rangers have a game in hand, and there are also two Old Firm derbies left to be played.
If Gerrard’s team win those three games, then they will be confident of pushing the Hoops all the way in the league title race.
However, according to the report, UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin has warned the smaller nations against not completing the current season, as their clubs’ participation in the Champions League and the Europa League during the 2020-21 campaign will be in jeopardy.
Celtic legend David Provan has given his take on the situation in The Scottish Sun, and has suggested that crowning champions Celtic now is what SPFL chief executive Neil Doncaster was planning to do.
Provan wrote in The Scottish Sun: “Ceferin is threatening to withdraw next season’s European places from associations who call their leagues on current positions. You can bet that was Doncaster’s intention.
“Even more when Belgium set the precedent by declaring Club Bruges as Pro League champions. With the null and void route never an option, crowning Celtic would have brought him some grief, but nothing he couldn’t have handled.
“Legal threats from Rangers and Hearts could safely have been ignored. Prize money would have been dished out, clubs could have started shifting season books and corporate boxes for next season and the start date for the next television contract would have been unaffected.”
Change at Rangers
Meanwhile, former Celtic striker Chris Sutton has questioned the future of Rangers manager Steven Gerrard following Dave King’s decision to step down as the chairman, while ex-Gers star Barry Ferguson has given his take on interim chairman Douglas Park.
The Scottish Sun quotes Sutton as saying: “And I suppose Dave King leaving begs the question: ‘What about Steven Gerrard’s future now as Rangers manager?’
“Dave King was the guy who brought Steven Gerrard to the football club. Steven Gerrard trusted Dave King implicitly. So, maybe it’s about time that Steven Gerard came out and made a statement just to calm the waters at Rangers at this moment in time.”
Ferguson wrote about Park in The Daily Record: “You’re talking about a man with deep pockets here who has been signing cheques for some time now to keep things ticking over at Ibrox.
“He is as shrewd a businessman as they come but, most importantly of all, he has Rangers in his DNA. He wouldn’t have stepped up as chairman if he didn’t believe he could guide the club safely through this shutdown.”
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