Scottish football dealing with an international crisis was never likely to be straightforward.
Even by the standards of our national game the SPFL resolution to end the lower leagues early was a shambles.
First Dundee failed to cast a ballot and were left with a deciding vote, then Rangers accused the governing body of wrongdoing.
Hearts and Aberdeen have since added their voices to that, while Dundee eventually cast their vote and brought the lower leagues to a close.
It remains to be seen what will happen in the top flight, as the SPFL await UEFA guidance, but it appears likely the season could be declared over, crowing Celtic as champions.
Scottish football has been unusual in breaking cover in this way, and the vote made headlines around the world.
Unfortunately for Neil Doncaster and co they weren't always positive ones.
Spain
Marca wrote : "Imagine for a second that all of the work of 42 teams, as well as the dreams and hopes of thousands of fans in the last nine months, depend on the vote of one club... and that this vote changes from being favourable to resuming the season to ending it outright in just five days. That's what has just happened in Scotland."
The report then sums up the situation with Dundee's missing vote, before concluding: "In the absence of UEFA deciding what happens within its competitions, the 2019/20 football season in Scotland looks set to end outright, albeit mired in controversy."
Italy
Gazzetta dello Sport were withering in their analysis of the SPFL resolution, in an article titled ' In Scotland chaos reigns '.
They wrote: "Among the many ways to get out of the impasse on the conclusion - or not conclusion - of the football leagues, Scotland stands out for having chosen the most chaotic: a complicated system of interconnected voting by the lower leagues, to later allow the governing body to extend the outcome to the Scottish Premiership."
It's acknowledged that "the haste to declare the season over comes from the need to provide aid to clubs that have been brought to their knees economically by the consequences of the coronavirus" but the newspaper concludes "the management of the whole operation left a lot to be desired".
United States
Sports Illustrated wrote : "Scottish football’s true self, it turns out to nobody’s great surprise, is farcically chaotic and riven with self-interest."
They surmise: "This farce will drag on, and it’s entirely possible it will eventually be decided in the courts."
Netherlands
Following Dundee's decision to vote to end the season, Voetbal International said : "With Dundee's decision a curious piece of Scottish football history has come to an end."
