How much football do you watch?

[steds]

You know, that league that's dominated by 2 teams who don't have a single Scottish player in either of their ranks.

Celtic have Robert Douglas, Jackie McNamara, Paul Lambert, and, I'm sure, several others
Rangers have Maurice Ross, Graeme Smith(no South African jokes, please), Steven Thompson, Alex Rae, Craig Moore, and others, too.
(I assume those teams are the ones you were on about)




I go to most of Wigan Latics' home matches(unless the rugby team has recently beat Saints), and vaguely follow Everton, but other than that, Idon't watch alot of football.

 

[marc71178]

How? Its a fact!

What, the Scottish EPL is a fact is it?

 

[Simon]

SBS Can't have the Dutch football I'd say. ESPN have that and the Scottish EPL. The Serie A and/or the French League would be cool though.

I try to watch one live game a week and 2 or 3 replays. When the Champions leagues are on I watch 4 Champ leagues games and then the regular EPL/SPL/Eredivisie games! Fox also show some Spanish games now and replay them mid-day sunday so I always make sure I watch one of them as well!

EPSN may have it, but no one watches the scottish league, except for the old firm deby's but who can blame them, the league is a disgrace, really celtic and rangers should play in the EPL.....

 

[marc71178]

No they should not.

 

[Waughney]

I only watch the SBS EPL highlights (1hr)

 

[Tom Halsey]

What, the Scottish EPL is a fact is it?

Oops.

 

[Tom Halsey]

Celtic have Robert Douglas, Jackie McNamara, Paul Lambert, and, I'm sure, several others
Rangers have Maurice Ross, Graeme Smith(no South African jokes, please), Steven Thompson, Alex Rae, Craig Moore, and others, too.
(I assume those teams are the ones you were on about)

Yes, 3 players for Celtic out of about 30, and 5 for Rangers out of a similar number - they have Scottish players, but they should have far more - I reckon they should a foreigner player rule - it would even the league up a bit.

 

[Simon]

that would would then mean that the scottish league would be on par with wales and ireand. At least this way scotland have a couple of decent teams to represent in europe. The problem is their ammount of quality scottish players is very low, if there were more good ones, im sure we'd see more in their squads

 

[Tom Halsey]

No Scottish teams really compete in Europe anyway! Granted Celtic got to the UEFA Cup final the other year, but neither of them have done anything in the CL for ages. IMO they'd be better off having a foreigner rule so that teams were forced to groom Scottish players, so they'd do well in the future, and so would the National team too.

 

[Craig]

wouldn't watch seria A if you paid me though! (unless i needed some sleep)

Why not?

Because you will see technical football there, unlike you will see in the "Longball League with no poor defences" aka the English Premier League?

And BTW it is Seire A.

 

[Craig]

Craig Moore

I never knew having a Scottish accent counted as somebody being Scottish?

For the record he is as Australian as George Bush is Texan.

 

[Craig]

No they should not.

Why?

 

[lord_of_darkness]

i watch as much football as i can showed on Tv..!!

 

[marc71178]

Yes, 3 players for Celtic out of about 30, and 5 for Rangers out of a similar number - they have Scottish players, but they should have far more - I reckon they should a foreigner player rule - it would even the league up a bit.

Aside from the fact it's illegal, they do have a rule that means young Scots get 1st team experience.

 

[marc71178]

Why not?

Because you will see technical football there, unlike you will see in the "Longball League with no poor defences" aka the English Premier League?

And BTW it is Seire A.

Serie A actually

And it is a boring dull league - far less exciting than La Liga or the Premierleague.

 

[marc71178]

Why?

They're Scottish, not English.

 

[Tom Halsey]

Aside from the fact it's illegal, they do have a rule that means young Scots get 1st team experience.

What's illegal about a foreigner rule? Say, a max 3 foreign players in the lineup?

 

[steds]

I never knew having a Scottish accent counted as somebody being Scottish?

For the record he is as Australian as George Bush is Texan.

Well, I don't know. I don't follow them. I just picked out some scottish-ish names

 

[marc71178]

What's illegal about a foreigner rule?

EU law, the same reason we have Bosman and Kolpak.

 

[Craig]

They're Scottish, not English.

So then Cardiff, Wrexham, and Swansea shouldn't play in the English lower divisions because they are Welsh, not English?