Scottish Football

[tottenhamjohn78]

Do you ever watch it if its on tv? Do you enjoy it and what team do you follow or support?

Personally i like to watch some of the bigger games like rangers V celtic and hearts V hibs the two big derbies.

My favourite team would probally be hearts.

[Fatboyyid]

Never watch it. Life is too short to watch that crap.

Same as the Spanish, German, Italian, Dutch and portugueese

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there is a special "Away team dugout" section for such threads, mate...

[Heroes]

Welcome @tottenhamjohn78 - have fun!

[willk9]

I think scottish football is shit, there are only two teams that ever win things. I get frustrated every time they start talking about it on the news hear, as I really don't give a shit and would much rather they talk about the premier league!

[contrast]

Rather watch League 1/2 than SPL.

[Tottenham94]

I'm not defending the SPL but it's not like there's a massive competition to win our leauge. Only 4 teams have ever won our leauge, with Blackburn's being a one off. Man United's strangle hold on the EPL negates any arguement against the SPL being boring for having a top 2 since; at best we have a top 3 or 4. Having said that the SPL's standard of football is still god awful outside of the top 4 or 5 teams.

[Fatboyyid]

Erm the top 4 is now a top 6 with manure, Chavs, dippers, scum, arab city and us.

Scotland there is rangers and erm.,,,, Celtic. Nobody else

[rossdfc]

I'm a big Dundee fan, been to more than a hundred games, but being in the First Division we aren't even on TV apart from if we get lucky in the Scottish Cup - so to be honest I don't watch much Scottish football on TV.

I follow all of the results though, and watch every Old Firm derby and most Hearts v Hibs games too. Games like Aberdeen v Rangers are also interesting.

[contrast]

I'm not defending the SPL but it's not like there's a massive competition to win our leauge. Only 4 teams have ever won our leauge, with Blackburn's being a one off. Man United's strangle hold on the EPL negates any arguement against the SPL being boring for having a top 2 since; at best we have a top 3 or 4. Having said that the SPL's standard of football is still god awful outside of the top 4 or 5 teams.

Didn't you just watch this season?!?!

Everyone can beat everyone in the EPL . ..

[StPaulSpur]

@contrast - That's true, but at the end of the year the top 2 looked awfully familiar. Sure, 3rd was different, but that was only b/c of a lot of petro dollars. 4th was familiar. 5th was different, 6th was familiar. The EPL seems to be moving toward more parity, but that could get absolutely murdered this summer if Modric is sold. (I don't want to turn this into another Luka thread, I'm just making a point.) If Luka goes to Chelsea or Man U, we slide back into the midtable with Stoke, Sunderland, Bolton, Everton and Newcastle. So then we're back to a big 5 and the only reason it's 5 is b/c someone has lots of money. It'd never happen, but if some Qatari bloke bought Hibs, I'm sure the big 2 monopoly in Scotland would get broken up too.

Obviously I hope I'm wrong on all this. I hope we're headed to a more equitable era in European football, but that whole project is on a knife's edge right now and most of that is b/c of our standing w/ our elite players. If we keep them, we can keep chipping away at the monopoly in European football. But we could just as easily lose it all. Really interesting time in football, this is...

[contrast]

Can't think of many leagues thats different at the end of the season . . ..

[thfcire]

i had a season to celtic for 5 years back in the 90s but used to go regular in the 80s and 00s as well,the standard has dropped a good bit in th elast 5 years or so and its going to keep getting worse i reckon.theres still good footballers playing in the league but theyre few and far between,i hate to see it like this now if im honest scottish football use to be a driving force but tis dying a slow death