Ask me anything: How does the Scottish Premiership division work?

The SPFL clearly doesn’t know which team will be in which half of the table at the start of the season when deciding who will play 16 home and 17 away matches before the split.

If you have 17 home games, you would nominally expect to play two away games after the split, and vice versa. If you have 16 children at home, expect three after separation.

Hearts, Rangers, Motherwell and Falkirk will have played 17 home matches up to Round 33. Celtic and Hibs will have played 16 home matches.

But it’s not that simple. Given the need for a draw in home and away derbies and the stakes in the title race, two of Hearts’ matches are likely to be away at Easter Road and Celtic Park while Rangers can expect to be away to Celtic and Hearts, having hosted those two teams twice in the Premier League already this season.

However, Hearts have hosted Falkirk and Motherwell twice, meaning one of those two teams could earn a third league trip to Tynecastle.

In addition to the visits from Hearts and Rangers, Celtic will meet at home with Hibs, Falkirk or Motherwell – all three who have visited Celtic Park twice this season.

Meanwhile, Rangers will host Hibs, Falkirk and Motherwell just once each, but will only have two home games after the split. Likewise, Motherwell have hosted Falkirk, Hibs and Rangers twice each, but can only expect two home games against this trio of teams.

If United go ahead of Falkirk, they will also create the same imbalance in home and away games, where, like Bayern, they will play 17 home and 16 away games.

These are just some of the dilemmas the SPFL will have to solve.