Last weekend, a lot of people expected that we might get the fixture list. We are not going to get it now for a few weeks. Dundee United’s victory over Celtic has made it virtually impossible for the authorities to release the post-split fixtures until all the games are complete and we know exactly how the top six is going to line up.

Let me be blunt. The post-split fixtures are a nightmare scenario of biblical proportions, and I do not think we have even scratched the surface of what they are going to involve.

You always hear talk of the SPFL supercomputer. It has always been garbage. The so-called supercomputer never picks the order of games on its own.

Human beings always shape the order of matches to ensure certain outcomes, or at least certain set-pieces in the calendar, such as a Glasgow derby around New Year. The computer is fed a list of inputs and conditions. It is not random, and there is no scenario in which these final fixtures will be random either.

There are so many potential nightmare scenarios in those fixtures that it is almost mind-bending to consider them. Some arise naturally from the...