Scottish Teams In English Leagues

[stand_free]

They were thinking big at Celtic Park on Wednesday night.

 

Spartak Moscow had been vanquished, Celtic had defied the odds to reach the last 16 of the Champions League and ambitions were soaring.

 

As the fans streamed happily out of the magnificent stadium into the night, the punchy, staccato beat of London Calling blared over the loud speaker system.

 

London calling indeed.

 

On one level, that means the dream of making the Champions League final at Wembley on May 25.

 

Impossible? Well, maybe, but everyone said beating Barcelona a few weeks ago would be impossible, too, and Celtic managed that.

 

But on another level, London calling means something altogether more radical. Something revolutionary, in fact.

 

London calling means that the conversation about Celtic taking a place in the leagues south of the border is getting louder and louder.

 

London calling means we are reaching a point where it is becoming more and more obvious that incorporating Celtic and Rangers into the English leagues would reinvigorate the game on both sides of the border.

 

And it means that perhaps we need to widen our horizons, to include not just the Old Firm but ALL of the Scottish Premier League in a new five-division system in English football.

 

Because, at the moment, the reality is this: Celtic are a giant stranded in a moribund league.

 

They play in one of the best, most atmospheric football arenas in Europe, in front of gates habitually close to 50,000.

 

But they have no one to play. Not really.

 

No genuine challenger.

 

Not since Rangers

[zander]

Who the fuck wrote that pish?

[Poodler]

Yeovil versus Ross County. How does this stuff even get printed?

[Tommy]

Yeovil versus Ross County. How does this stuff even get printed?

 

 

And the bus for next saturday's game at Yeovil will leave after today's game finishes.

[Karl Fletcher]

Facking Colchester away, laaaaav' it!

[Dynamo]

Playing teams like Colchester and Yeovil would be even more boring than the likes of Hamilton and Dunfermline

[StandFree1982]

It's pish like this that is killing our game.

[stand_free]

The one big, glaring flaw in his plan. The Rangers aren't even in the SPL. He bangs on and on about parachuting the 12 SPL teams in without even sonsidering that they aren't one of them. Twat

[Tommy]

It would be wonderful if both of them fucked off elsewhere.

[rgudon]

It would be wonderful if both of them fucked off elsewhere.

 

would be the best thing that has ever happened to scottish football

[BrianFaePerth]

would be the best thing that has ever happened to scottish football

 

The league is already more entertaining with one of them gone

[Bluto10]

i think editors force thier monkeys to peddle certain bit of rubbish, or at least steer them anyway.

 

nobody with a brian really wants celtic and rangers to play in engaldn.

 

wouldnt get worked up about this. its a story for the eneducated masses.

[BrianFaePerth]

nobody with a brian really wants celtic and rangers to play in engaldn.

 

wouldnt get worked up about this. its a story for the eneducated masses.

 

 

Did ye enjoy it then?

[Karl Fletcher]

Did ye enjoy it then?

 

:laughing:

 

Bluto, I'm nae one for pointing out spelling mistakes but "engaldn" ffs

[Bluto10]

:laughing:

 

Bluto, I'm nae one for pointing out spelling mistakes but "engaldn" ffs

 

karl, youre a good sort so i accept your kind apology.

 

most folk they see it as a typo. to the insecure uneductaed like tup and harcus they, incorrec tly, see it as an opportunity to get one over me.

scum like that will never beat me.

im better than them and they know it.

[boboisared]

Guarantee within 5 years of winning fuck all they'd be desperate to come crawling back.

[Bluto10]

oh aye.

 

being a disease ridden mink on the breadline is bad enough but without having a championship winning team to support, its enought to drive them to suicide.

[Henry]

i think editors force thier monkeys to peddle certain bit of rubbish, or at least steer them anyway.

 

nobody with a brian really wants celtic and rangers to play in engaldn.

 

 

Brian who?

 

 

 

[RTYD]

And the bus for next saturday's game at Yeovil will leave after today's game finishes.

 

Yes it would be a daftie for sure.

 

It would certainly give us the chance to test if we are a big club or not. Ten year plan for entry to the EPL?

 

Won't win the league here that's for sure, not if we can't hold onto an 18 year old, but we might have a better time playing the big bastards down there.

[zander]

English League sounds quite tasty if we're involved.

 

Away days would be a nightmare to get to but Football has already sold its soul anyway.

[stand_free]

English League sounds quite tasty if we're involved.

 

Away days would be a nightmare to get to but Football has already sold its soul anyway.

 

Don't see what's so tasty about games against the likes of Walsall, Swindon, Crewe et al. The TV money at the level is hardly massive either. Think the clubs only take home about

[V for Vendetta]

oh aye.

 

being a disease ridden mink on the breadline is bad enough but without having a championship winning team to support, its enought to drive them to suicide.

 

another good reason to hope the OF move down south then.

[fine-n-dandy]

Get both the tims & huns te fuck out of Scotland & they can take their religious BS with them.

We certainly don't need them to have an exciting league (quite the opposite in fact).

 

Who cares if we have zero Champions league places, or have to play half a dozen qualifiers to get champions league right now all we (the rest) have is Europa anyway & in all honesty, Europe is just a jolly now for the likes of us.

 

We would have a fantastic league without the OF in it. Fuck European football. A couple of Europa places (one for league & one for Scottish cup) & MAYBE a few CL qualifiers & that's good enough for us.

 

England PLEASE take them scummy cunts off our hands.

You'll love them.

[DD1903]

Love how this guy thinks we'd gain from this! Why would I be interested in watching pish like a Bristol team, Colchester or letting fucking orient?!

 

English football is going to blow up eventually!

[Winnie For Gold]

One upside is that if we were in the same TV deal as all of these average sides with crowds no bigger or in some cases a fair bit smaller than ours, they might stop nicking our players by offering monopoly money.

[Dal Riata Don]

The Old Firm in the English league system: they've made a long song out of a very short fucking tune.

 

The answer is no.

 

London calling.

 

What did it say?

 

Fuck off.