In fairness to Rangers, they are making a decent fist of the europa league group stages
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In fairness to Rangers, they are making a decent fist of the europa league group stages
Premier League need to make it more competitive. My idea is to introduce a dynamic handicap system based on the current table when fixtures are played by penalising the higher placed team with a player less for a set number of minutes, perhaps four minutes per place. For example, top of the league team versus the 11th ranked, the top team plays with ten men for the first 40 minutes of the game.
But it’s not the same is it. I don’t hate it but I do think it’s a joke that it’s taken even remotely seriously as a league and all the hyperbole about Celtic and Rangers belng massive clubs does my head in.
You mention €883m in La Liga for the remaining clubs that’s an average of €50m ish. In Scotland that number for the remaining clubs is only circa 10% of that number.
Scotland also has about 10% of the people it’s only got 2 million more than Wales FFS.
UEFA spotted the error years ago - in my opinion they’re lucky that their champions don’t have to pre qualify much earlier for European competitions and it’s only past glories that help there.
2 big fish in a very small pool. I’d find a way of bringing the entire Scottish system into the English system and have their leagues as feeder leagues (at appropriate levels) to the English system. You could do the same with the Welsh League I guess, but then all the bullshit politics of FIFA and national teams will kick in.
If Rangers weren't relegated, it would be the same. Soon enough, Rangers will be back at the top table and it'll be a La Liga mark 2.
Re SOC, there's no "error", Scottish teams did poorly in Europe so their coefficient dropped. As well as the fact the top 4 leagues wanted a monopoly on spaces in the CL.
You could be right, and I hope you are. The detailed look at ranger's finances aren't that pretty though. They've been stretching to get back in contention with Celtic, but are still miles off.
Rangers are making a loss each year and Celtic, despite spending almost 3 times as much as rangers on wages, make a profit.
This is due to the European money and commercial revenue that Celtic get absolutely dwarfs all of the other revenue streams in the league.
If rangers owners have deep enough pockets to close the gap with Celtic and then are able to grow the commercial revenue to match then it might become competitive again.
As much as Scottish football is a joke, nobody can deny the passion the fans have for the game. Not massive crowds, apart from Celtic and Rangers, but they do get an atmosphere going, and the Tartan army must be amongst the best set of international fans around, considering the numbers they take to away games, and they’ve had the middle of a donought to shout about for over 20 yrs.