La Liga Strike Suspension Allows Proper Title Celebrations for Barcelona

So, for all of the posturing, Barcelona will be given the chance to win the Liga title at Atletico Madrid this weekend.

All of the talk during the week has been dominated by the threat of a blanket football ban in the Spanish leagues and with it the possibility that the final two rounds of La Liga would be postponed or, at worst, shelved altogether.

Barca's date with Champions League destiny had seemingly been relegated to second place as the strike news took hold.

Although there appears to have been a positive outcome, at least for now, what the decision effectively has done is undermined the terrific work that has gone on in Barcelona over the course of the season. Particularly in 2015.

Let's just take things back a touch. To half-time at the Anoeta Stadium, the first game of the new year away against Real Sociedad.

Lionel Messi and Neymar had been benched, and with the eventual loss came the Spanish inquisition.

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Luis Enrique could do nothing right, it would seem, all because he continued to rotate his staff and continued to be his own man. A man of principles, Lucho was nobody's puppet, but that didn't appear to sit well in every corner of the media.

Always confident in his own ability, it appeared that the manager just needed everyone from top to bottom to trust him.

Lee Roden of ESPN later detailed Enrique's blueprint that he had wanted the team to follow if they craved success, and you have to say that it's worked incredibly well to this point and rather justified Enrique's famed single-mindedness.

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The "mini crisis" that appeared to envelope the club for a time was quickly averted as everything "clicked."

As Luis Suarez's fitness returned, so did his prowess, and along with Messi and Neymar, the trio began a run that has yet to end, scoring at a rate that has rarely been seen at this level of football.

Moreover, the way in which each has tailored his own game to complement the other two deserves appropriate recognition.

As does a sterling defensive effort. Just 19 goals conceded in La Liga at this point of the season is frankly astonishing.

Indeed, the back four and both goalkeepers can be proud of setting another record:

In fact, when we look back over the course of this campaign, there is much to be admired, Barca fan or not.

At the time of writing, the Catalans are just three games away from only the second treble ever to have been achieved in Spanish football's entire history.

Whether or not they achieve it, the 2014/15 season, against the backdrop of a FIFA-imposed transfer ban, let's not forget, should be celebrated. Now that the strike is suspended, Barca's fans could get the chance to do just that in the Vicente Calderon.