In what was the most anticipated league game in the Premiership in decades, Celtic were the ones coming out on top. A familiar sight if you have followed Scottish football for any length of time. A 3-1 win over Hearts in their own backyard sealed a league title triumph. The fifth in a row and 56th in total. The Hoops are in a league of their own.

As for Hearts, it was a heartbreaking day. They came so close to clinching a historic league title. Just one point would have been enough to crown them champions.

If they had succeeded. Hearts would be the first Scottish team, not named Celtic or Rangers, to win the league in over four decades. The last one to do so was the famous Aberdeen side managed by Alex Ferguson.

Celtic's win came in thrilling circumstances as well. This has just been that sort of a end to the campaign.

Against the Rangers, they turned the game around, with Daizen Maeda scoring an overhead kick in the Glasgow Derby. Against Motherwell, it was a 99th-minute penalty kick from Kelechi Iheanacho that sealed all three points. And on the final day of the season, they had to come back from a goal down once again to win 3-1.

As Callum Osmand rolled the ball into an empty Hearts net with 30 seconds to spare, after the visitors had put every man up and then been caught out on the counter, a lot of Celtic supporters emptied the stands and got on to the pitch in celebration.

The Hearts players and staff ended up leaving as quickly as possible and the full-time scenes have been heavily criticised all over the media since then.

Now, it has already been confirmed that the game had ended and it was not abandoned. So, those Scottish football fans who had been hoping for the decision to be overturned and for Hearts to be handed the title might need to keep waiting.

Even then, Celtic have released an official statement themselves today, which read: "The Club regrets that our victory over Hearts was followed by a number of individuals entering the field of play.

"We again emphasise that there is no justification for this behaviour which, for the vast majority of Celtic supporters, only detracts from the joy of such occasions.

"Celtic will co-operate fully with any investigation and with the SPFL in their own processes.

"We also apologise to Hearts for the situation encountered by their players and staff at the conclusion of the game, and for the fact that these events prevented them from saluting their own supporters at the end of an enthralling campaign, to which they have contributed so much."

Now, the focus for Celtic turns towards the final game of their campaign, and probably the last in Martin O'Neill's managerial career as well.

Celtic will be in the Scottish Cup final, taking on Dunfermline Athletic. O'Neill has the chance to finish his career by winning two trophies in his last two games. Appropriately, in the opposite dugout will be Neil Lennon, someone he managed for close to a decade. It is a fairytale ending no matter which way you look at it.

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