Should Raith Rovers be awarded League One title if season is cut short due to coronavirus?

While the global spread of the virus has already resulted in closed doors matches and postponements across Europe, it remains to be seen how it will affect Scottish football.

SPFL chief Neil Doncaster has already warned of potentially “dire financial consequences”, urging clubs to check their insurance policies.

The possibility of the season being curtailed has posed questions over how the four league titles, and any promotion and relegation issues, would be decided.

While the Premiership, Championship and League Two tables all have clear frontrunners, just one point separates Raith and Falkirk at the top of League One.

However, Rovers boss McGlynn believes the Kirkcaldy club would have the stronger case for being awarded the title should the campaign be cut short, due to having been top of the standings for 21 of the 28 weeks of the season thus far.

"It’s obviously a very difficult decision for the SFA and SPFL in the joint situation they are in having to deal with this," he said.

"It’s a one-off and no-one really knows what’s going to happen.

"If you look across the leagues, most people would say Celtic are hot favourites to take the Premiership, Dundee United are done and dusted, the same with Cove Rangers.

"This is the only league where they would have a decision to make, but if you look at it, we’ve been top of the table for the vast majority of the season."

Should Rovers drop points over the next few weeks it could allow Falkirk to claim top spot ahead of any potential early finish, although if both clubs match each other’s results, the Bairns will still have a chance to steal top spot when Raith play their Challenge Cup final against Inverness Caledonian Thistle on March 28.

"If the league finished on that Saturday night and we were a game behind, how fair would that be?" McGlynn said.

"It’s unprecedented this situation we’re in. No-one knows how we would come across that.

"I think it would need to come down to who has been top of the table for the longest period of the season.

"For me, that would determine who has been the best team all season, not just at five o’clock on March 28, for example, and I would like to think that somebody would take that into consideration.”

McGlynn also added that playing matches behind closed doors would not be a viable option for lower league clubs such as Raith, who rely heavily on gate income.

"It would kill us with no money coming in and wages have to go out," he said.

"It’s a very worrying situation for everyone involved in football, and obviously the health situation for the public and everyone else.

"At the moment we just want to try and stay top of the table anyway.

"We’re committed to going out every Saturday and putting everything into it to win football matches.

"That will not change at all, but there’s a little bit of uncertainty with regards to what could happen if this escalates, and by all accounts everyone is saying it will in the next few weeks, so where will we be? No-one knows."