It’s all a bit academic

The whole Promotion/Relegation split for the final five games of the season has rarely led to any excitement in the Scottish game. This season the clubs who entered the final five games in 4th, 5th and 6th had nothing to play for in terms of the title or European football, whilst those in 7th, 8th and 9th were safe from relegation. If the concept of introducing the system was to stop a hatful of dead rubbers at the end of the season then I think it may have failed, with at least half of the league already on their sun loungers. Still, it could be worse - they could have adopted the Belgian Play-off system which Stephen Hawking tried to describe a few years ago, gave up and published his book "A Brief History of Time".

from The Ball is Round http://ift.tt/238iRqq