Quotewouldnt really agree, worked in Dunfermline and most people supported the old firm,glasgow being 100miles away!mind you at least they support scottish teams.
what a great week for scottish football
same population,same style as us- only difference is their football fans follow their own teams & go to their games
the barstoolers are missing out on so much
wouldnt really agree, worked in Dunfermline and most people supported the old firm,glasgow being 100miles away!mind you at least they support scottish teams.
that happens in most countries with the likes of Juventus Ajax Bayern Munich Manchester
For Aberdeen to qualify its a great result for scottish football- finally puts the idea that are crap league is as good as theirs & it shows what peopel supporting their own teams can achieve
My sister lives in Aberdeen and she's said that a lot of the jerseys you see around the town are Old Firm ones. They do get big attendances for the SPL (upwards of 10k, AFAIK) but the city has a population of about 300k.
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13,000 is the average
Scottish football is muck. 2 clubs dominating a mickey mouse league. Most boring predictable league in the world. Biggest 2 teams dont even claim to be scottish anyway. Celtic are full of idiots with tricolours pretending to have some magical mystical relationship with Ireland and rangers are full of union jack waving UK lovers.Originally Posted by Fingal hoop
The Welsh league has far more credibility then those jokers up there.
Haha - The three scottish teams that won this week have all won european cups- cant be that bad - Celtic fans are part of the Irish diaspora hence the tricolours, Rangers fans are proud to be British hence the UJs. Aberdeen winning is a great boost to scottish football. Pity that LOI football seems to be going backwards europe wise
Firstly - Scotland has a population 25% bigger than the ROI (5m vs 4.1m).
Secondly - Football is by far the biggest spectator sport in Scotland. There isn't any other spectator sport that is popular throughout the whole country. Rugby is very regional to the Borders/Edinburgh/Glasgow, cricket is non existent, shinty gets almost no supporters etc. Therefore - Scotland is in a unique position in this part of the world for being a one-spectator-sport country. In light of that - you'd expect them to be doing a lot better than they actually are !
P.S. Why is this in the Eircom league section ?
one has 5 million one has 4 million - similar enough population - Sportswise Scotalnd is similar to most countries- its in the eircom league section as we should be using teams like aberdeen as the benchmark for our clubs
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The comparison isn't as cut and dry as you're suggesting though FH.
Firstly - a population difference of 20% is statistically significant, but it's merely an aside in this debate.
The key issue is that football is pretty much the only show in town in Scotland - with minor excpetions for small rugby-loving border towns. Conversely in Ireland, domestic football is the 4th most popular spectator sport : behind both GAA codes and rugby (provincial).
Agree that we can emulate the likes of Aberdeen, but the thread began purely as a 'celebration' of the SPL. I'm not sure what learnings we can draw form the SPL though - as we have a very different set-up for domestic football here than they do, there is real competition both in other sports and other football clubs here that they don't face, and Scotland isn't largely a nation of muppets who've only come to the game relatively recently.
scotland have one million more ppl
plus the amount of funding they get from the british goverment would be far greater - thus allowing more finance to be pimped into the scottish game including stadiums
so not really getting where your coming from mate
sorry pumped not PIMPED (-:
1 million more in the grand scheme of things isnt that great,Scottish teams beating Italian French & Ukranian teams with massive populations shows what we could achieve with our population. The fact that the government pump money into scottish football (not sure if they do) would be significant as it shows how underfunded we are & what a difference investment would make
one chestnut was that apart from facilities the EPL is on par- the facilities bit is very true- compare St johnstons ground to anythine we have here for example- this weeks results put that to bed- massive result by the donsThe semantics over population is nit picking as well -
too many people fooling themselves about the realities of life as an eircom league fan
Your talking absolute muck Fingal hoop.
1. Soccer isnt near to being the most followed sport in ireland, its way behind Football, Hurling,
2. The organisation that runs Soccer in this country is an absolute disgrace and could learn a hell of a lot from the GAA
3. You cant just brush off 1million people and say it cant have an effect.
4. The scottish league has been professional for a long long time and cannot be compared to the irish set-up.
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i agree wit you - we are underfunded terribly - but we are not going to get the same funding for the eircom league of our goverment as the scots have received from the british gov - hence the development of the game will be better in scotland and thus the spl will be able to flourish at home and abroad
but as you say if we got proper funding - who knows mate
---- exactly- its something to strive too - Im saying with a similar population & sylte of football what the scots have achieved so can we
not sure why some people are negative- we should celebrate other small countries doing well especially one so close to us & also so close to the monster that is the epl
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