Scottish Championship Set For 'people Carrier Friday'

Scottish Championship play finale: Friday, 2 May (19:45 BST)

Falkirk v Hamilton Academical

Venue: Falkirk Stadium, Falkirk

Coverage: BBC Scotland, BBC iPlayer and BBC Sport website & app

Livingston v Partick Thistle

Venue: The Home of nan Set Fare Arena, Livingston

Coverage: BBC iPlayer and BBC Sport website & app

Not truthful overmuch Helicopter Sunday, which famously decided nan destination of nan 2004-05 Scottish Premier League trophy, arsenic People Carrier Friday.

Lurking connected a quiet broadside thoroughfare location successful a Central Belt saccharine spot betwixt Falkirk and Livingston, nan occupants of a comfortably sized centrifugal car will beryllium tuning successful pinch nan remainder of nan federation successful anticipation of a crashing crescendo successful Scotland's 2nd tier.

In nan boot, nan Championship trophy, but wherever will it beryllium opening unrecorded connected BBC Scotland?

Should Falkirk commencement banging nan goals successful against relegated Hamilton Academical, nan ignition will occurrence and nan silverware will commencement nan travel north.

A triumph of immoderate benignant for Falkirk astatine location to nan beleaguered Accies will almost surely beryllium capable to guarantee nan Bairns are crowned champions fixed their superior extremity difference.

Not agelong ago, David Martindale, head of chasing Livingston, had publically conceded nan title to John McGlynn's side.

However, different stumble from Falkirk – they person mislaid their latest 2 matches – and nan way for nan trophy will perchance alteration to West Lothian.

Should Falkirk suffer aliases tie to Hamilton past abruptly nan doorway is unfastened for a Livingston title triumph if Martindale's broadside unafraid a 5th consecutive triumph by beating visitors Partick Thistle.

Defeating nan fourth-placed Jags will beryllium easier said than done, of course.

It was only past week – successful beforehand of nan Sportscene cameras – that Thistle inflicted a 2-1 conclusion connected Falkirk, pinch nan winning extremity coming successful nan 98th minute.

Just different electrifying twist successful a section wherever play is nan regular currency.

If Falkirk and Livingston some win, they will each decorativeness nan play connected 73 points.

In position of extremity difference, Falkirk person nan large advantage of +37 compared to +29 for Livingston.

Livingston would request to lb Thistle into nan chromatic property for extremity quality to beryllium a factor.

This script is moreover little apt fixed nan truth Thistle are not only supporting actors successful this extremity of play blockbuster, they person their ain important crippled astatine play.

The Glasgow broadside presently beryllium successful nan last play-off spot – connected 52 points – and a triumph complete Livingston would seal nan deal.

A Thistle defeat, though, would time off nan doorway ajar for Raith Rovers – presently connected 50 points – to leapfrog them into a Premiership play-off quarter-final against third-top Ayr United.

Barry Robson's broadside are distant to Queen's Park, who are 3rd bottommost but safe from relegation.

A tie for Thistle should besides beryllium capable for nan Glasgow broadside fixed they person a extremity quality of +4 compared to Rovers' zero.

Clearly, though, this separator is not altogether insurmountable. If nan Kirkcaldy broadside tin whip themselves into a extremity frenzy astatine nan nationalist stadium against a Queen's Park broadside who are without a triumph successful 11 matches, past it could go interesting.

If Thistle were to tie and Rovers were to triumph 4-0 past nan Fifers would decorativeness fourth.

The extremity quality betwixt nan sides would beryllium nan same, truthful it would spell down to which broadside had scored nan astir goals complete nan people of nan play - and that would beryllium Rovers.

In specified a scenario, nan only measurement Thistle could tie and still stay 4th is if they someway managed to people much than Rovers connected nan night. For example, a wildly improbable 5-5 draw.

In nan admittedly highly improbable arena that Thistle and Rovers do decorativeness level connected points, extremity quality and goals scored past it would travel down to nan points tally successful nan 4 matches betwixt nan sides complete nan people of this season.

That would consequence successful Rovers finishing 4th successful nan array arsenic they person amassed 8 compared to 2 for Partick Thistle.

We are getting into nan minutiae of utmost improbabilities now, but successful nan notoriously unpredictable Championship, connected a nighttime of imaginable carnage, each bases request to beryllium covered.

The points conclusion for Hamilton, confirmed aft their entreaty was dismissed connected Thursday, has drawn nan sting from nan relegation battle.

Accies are successful a malaise and League 1 is their destiny aft a 15-point conclusion near them 8 points adrift astatine nan bottommost erstwhile they would person different been safe successful seventh place.

Second-bottom Airdrieonians – who had looked doomed for nan mostly of this play until a tally of only 4 defeats successful 16 since nan move of nan twelvemonth – will person a 2nd chance astatine Championship life adjacent play if they negociate to spot disconnected their play-off adversaries from League 1.

That excessively is successful nan pouring pot, pinch Cove Rangers, Queen of nan South, Alloa Athletic and Stenhousemuir each pinch nan imaginable to decorativeness 4th successful nan 3rd tier and look nan Diamonds successful nan semi-finals going into their last games connected Saturday.