Michael Beale believes the Scottish Premiership could be decided from the midway point of the season.

The Rangers coach reckons league bosses could take the total number of points accumulated from the first round of home and away fixtures in the topflight to decide the 2019/20 champions.

Celtic took 58 points from their opening 22 home and away Premiership matches while Rangers took 56 – playing one game fewer – meaning there would still not be a clear winner if this was determined as the most viable option.

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Beale wrote in his blog: "I hope we can finish the leagues and bring a true and fair ending to this season, but I’m unsure if we will get that opportunity.

“Everyone will have a different opinion that is somehow biased by their own club’s situation. Maybe each league will give the member clubs a chance to vote on the outcome.

“Unless the leagues can be split in a fair way, a league with less teams like Scotland can decide to not predict into the future – but go back to a point where each team has played each other twice and use that as a fair reference of the teams level over the equal part of the season.

“If the positions are the same as at that point I think it’s a fairer reference point as each team has played each other twice.

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"But we must never determine relegation based on a points total where each team has played a different mix of games or opponents and nothing is mathematically decided. This would kill all sporting integrity.

“So I believe the different leagues will be sticking close to the rule books and this season will be postponed until later in the year, if not cancelled.

“While this will seem unfair, I’m not sure what else can be done? Talking about professional sport at this moment is irrelevant in the bigger picture of people’s health and safety.”