Legendary striker Kenny Dalglish has admitted concern that a positive judgement for Hearts and Partick Thistle in their legal battle with the SPFL could lead to a challenge over titles awarded last season.
The M8 alliance will shortly face SFA arbitration to decide the legality of their forced relegation with eight games still to play.
Three arbitrators from a legal background will go through the SPFL decision making process to relegate the two clubs and decide what restitution, if any, should be made.
And Dalglish is concerned that if the clubs get a favourable judgement and relegation is scrapped, it could end up causing challenges to "null and void" titles won by Celtic, Dundee United, Raith Rovers and Cove Rangers.
He told The Sunday Post : "If the judgment goes in favour of the clubs, then good luck to them.
"Their endeavour and fight against the SPFL will have led them to getting the result they wanted.
"But such a ruling may well open the door to many, many decisions in the SPFL’s four divisions being called into question.
"For example, if the relegation of Hearts from the Premiership, and Thistle from the Championship, is ruled to be unlawful, what’s to stop a club challenging the outcome at the top of the table as well?
"What’s to stop them asking that any titles given before the fixture schedule had been completed should also be ruled null and void?
"The argument would be that the same rules must apply to every place in the league, and not just the issue of relegation.
"The same applies to the handing out of European places.
"The past few weeks have been bad enough for the reputation of Scottish football.
"But this scenario could lead to our game becoming absolutely chaotic.
"Everything could well all end up in the air, and lead to even more legal challenges.
"It would leave the Premiership’s scheduled start date of August 1 in serious doubt."
