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Watching this.....0-3 ....nearly half time....David Marshall for Hibs in goal not exactly great positioning for 2md and 3rd goals....
Time to do a Ben Foster?
5-0 absolute stuffing
To think that it's little over 6 years ago since we stuffed Villa 3-0 at home in the league. We thoroughly deserved that win; we were the better side, not just that day but for the whole season.
2 seasons later, Villa replaced us in the PL and the chasm between us is massive.
This is an indication of how poor the SPL has become.
Long gone are the days of teams like Aberdeen winning the UEFA cup.
Maybe we should join, we'd be in Europe every season
Just pointing out the difference in budgets, income, expenditure and obviously quality.
I disagree with the 'new' Rangers being able to cope as the original version of the club was liquidated in 2012 trying to keep up in Scotland.
From someone who watched Scottish clubs like Aberdeen, Dundee United challenge Europe's elite in the 80s its a severe drop in quality and a shame for football for those of a certain age.
I think rather than a drop off, they’ve been static and many other leagues & teams have moved on (financially), the gaps between the haves and have nots continues to grow. It’s not just Scotland, it’s the same across Europe, the big 4 leagues dominate with the odd intervention from France or Portugal.
Point taken, other leagues that have been impacted primarily the Dutch and Belgians.
During the 80s I can remember Mechelen winning Cup Winners Cup, Anderlecht competing in finals of European finals. Ajax, Feyenoord and PSV Eindhoven were seen as big clubs. Two of those clubs won European trophies in the 80s.
True.
I'm in Birmingham and watched the Hibs / Villa game whilst knocking back a pint yesterday afternoon. A few Villa fans knocking about getting extremely giddy about the performance and Villa being in Europe (which is fair enough).
It does seem an age away when they beat Bayern Munich in the European Cup though and thought then how distorted the Premier League is.
I'm getting all whimsy and reminiscing now.
the spl these days is league one standard, aside from 2 teams that are like top championship teams