Antoine Semenyo’s brilliantly-improvised backheel is enough to give Manchester City a 1-0 win over Chelsea in the FA Cup final, as Pep Guardiola’s side complete a domestic cup double at Wembley.

MATCH REPORT: FA Cup final – Chelsea 0-1 Manchester City

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The first thing to remember is that the Europa League winners qualify for the Champions League.

If Villa win the Europa League and finish in the top four, then nothing changes in terms of England’s European spots. There would still be five teams in the Champions League, and eight in Europe.

The place in the Champions League reserved for the Europa League titleholders would pass to the team in qualifying with the best Uefa coefficient.

As it stands, that could be Portugal’s Sporting Lisbon.

If Villa finish outside the top four, the Premier League will have six teams in the Champions League:

Villa’s precise final position would decide the Premier League’s total European allocation.

If they finish fifth, the EPS passes to the Premier League’s sixth-placed team.

And as we will know if Villa have won the Europa League ahead of the final day, it could present a titanic battle to finish in sixth.

Right now, Villa sit in fourth but, if on the final day they lose at Manchester City, and Liverpool win at home to Brentford, then the Villans will finish fifth.

And that could potentially put sixth into the Champions League.

The Premier League would surrender a place in the Europa League. Overall, England would still have eight European places.

At the start of the season, with Rodgers seemingly imperious, the notion that the septuagenarian was going to return to Parkhead not just once but twice, and steer home a troubled club, would have been outlandish.

Truth, sometimes, is stranger than fiction.

And Celtic’s truth has been wild. O’Neill has ensured a happy ending, but so much of what went before was angry and divisive. Hostility reigned supreme until an uneasy truce towards the end of the season.

It all kicked off with that Champions League exit at the hands of Kairat Almaty. Two games, zero goals and a transfer window that enraged the supporters. Celtic won four games out of 12 in Europe.

The summer arrivals: Kieran Tierney, Isaac English, Ross Doohan, Benjamin Nygren, Callum Osmand, Hayato Inamura, Shin Yamada, Jahmai Simpson-Pusey, Michel-Ange Balikwisha, Marcelo Saracchi, Sebastien Tounekti and Kelechi Iheanacho.

Only five of those made it into double figures in league appearances. Others rarely, if ever, featured.

Rodgers said a few of them were “club signings”, the inference being that they weren’t his choices. His rhetoric caused ructions behind the scenes. It would spill out in public soon enough.

Rodgers, agitated and agitating about the business done in the market, infamously likened his squad to a Honda Civic rather than the Ferrari he wanted to drive. In October, Celtic lost 2-0 to Dundee and 3-1 to Hearts and he resigned.

On his way out he received a verbal blast, the like of which has never been seen before in Scottish football. Dermot Desmond, the major shareholder, issued a statement that filleted Rodgers in the most brutal way.

The former manager had been “divisive, misleading, and self-serving”, said Desmond. He had “contributed to a toxic atmosphere and fuelled hostility towards members of the executive team and the board. Some of the abuse directed at them, and at their families, has been entirely unwarranted and unacceptable”.