The party may have been postponed with the last kick of the ball yesterday afternoon.
But, even though Ianis Hagi pulled the plug on it in spectacular style, it’ll come around eventually.
And when it does the season will end exactly the way almost everyone thought it would before a ball had been kicked last August.
The way it always ends. With yet another league title wrapped up in green and white ribbons and delivered to Glasgow’s east end.
Granted, back then, it would have been impossible to imagine that the final chapter would involve Barry Ferguson playing such a prominent part.
This old adversary appeared to have gift-wrapped the trophy for them when he sent out a reserve side and watched it being roundly pummelled at Pittodrie – two goals and one man down by half time.
And Ferguson’s levels of distress may just have made the moment all the more sweeter for Celtic’s supporters who were already making their way towards another celebratory knees-up while their rivals still had 45 minutes more to suffer in the north east.
The pain that was etched all over Ferguson’s face throughout that first half yesterday afternoon will only have added to Celtic’s enjoyment.
And even though Hamza Igamane and Hagi combined to dig Rangers out of that hole and keep the champagne on ice, Ferguson knows his side’s fate has been long since sealed.
That he will be in the driving seat when Celtic finally do get their hands on the big prize, provides an unexpected footnote to make the climax to this campaign a little more memorable than it might have been had Philippe Clement still been dozing behind the wheel.
Ferguson and his back room team represent a reminder of what Rangers used to be all about back in the days before they rendered themselves pretty much irrelevant in their own back yard.
And let’s make no mistake here. With just one top flight championship to their name in the last 14 years, that’s exactly what they have become in terms of contesting a title which has made a home for itself on the other side of Glasgow’s divide.
So, yes, when it does come Celtic’s supporters will take a further dollop of delight from seeing them in such obvious discomfort, having arrived back at their old club just in time for another painful whack of rock bottom.
By their very presence, Ferguson, Neil McCann, Billy Dodds and Allan McGregor have helped to ensure that yet another Celtic title winning season stands out from all the others, which are in danger of blurring into one another.
But that’s the thing about Scottish football. It’s nothing if not gloriously imaginative with its own storylines. Even if, inevitably, the outcome is almost always the same.
Of course, Andrew Cavenagh and his associates from the San Francisco 49ers will have their own ideas about becoming disruptors but, even though the American consortium might be coming, the smart money says nothing much is likely to change over the course of the next 12 months.
Because Brendan Rodgers and his squad is already so far ahead of the race for next season that no amount of new money and fresh thinking from across the pond is likely to make any discernible difference to the bigger picture.
To be frank, Cavenagh and his legal team are making it more difficult with each day that passes without the paperwork being signed, sealed and rubber stamped on this impending takeover.
While Rodgers will already have one eye fixed firmly on what he needs to improve his team over the summer and will have placed his irons in the fire, Rangers are stuck in a state of almost perpetual flux.
If they are not hunting for new managers, they’re rebuilding entire squads and now they’re changing owners into the bargain.
But Cavenagh – who was back in Scotland last week – will have to get a move on if he is to conclude this buy out and still have enough time left over to put a proper strategy in place for the coming campaign.
With that in mind he could do himself a favour by sitting Ferguson and his coaching staff down, offering them one year rolling contracts and asking them to put their own plans into practice in terms of recruitment.
But the longer that conversation doesn’t take place the less chance there is that it ever will.
Of course, Ferguson could change all of that by beating Athletic Bilbao in Spain on Thursday night and booking a place in the semi finals of this season’s Europa League.
And that thought will have been in the front and centre of his mind yesterday when he chose to send out a shadow side against Aberdeen rather than risk any more casualties ahead of the second leg.
By giving so many of his key performers the day off, he was also inviting the fringe men to step up and prove that they have been wrongly overlooked since Clement was sent packing.
They managed to do nothing much more than underline precisely why Ferguson thinks so little of them in the first place.
Danilo and Oscar Cortes were hooked at half time and may not be seen again for as long as the interim boss stays in charge.
Ross McCausland was sent off before the interval having picked up two yellow cards and he too will have been left in no doubt about his own responsibilities to the team. The winger might just have earned himself a permanent place among Ferguson’s untrustables.
Nedim Bajrami – who was replaced by Hagi later on – may already be stuck there too.
If Ferguson was properly empowered to start putting his plans in place for next season then it’s probable that some if not all of these players would have been told already to get their agents on the case.
But, the longer Cavenagh’s takeover rolls on without a decision made on the manager, the more likely it is that they’ll be back again in time for pre-season training when they could become someone else’s problem.
And the more certain it is that next season will end the same old way that it always does. With another party in the Celtic Park car park.