Scottish Football

[MC Prussian]

Celtic selling Moussa Dembélé to Olympique Lyon for £16m. Tidy business for a player they paid 30 times less two and a half years ago.

[UniFox21]

10 hours ago, MC Prussian said:

Celtic selling Moussa Dembélé to Olympique Lyon for £16m. Tidy business for a player they paid 30 times less two and a half years ago.

Without sounding patronising, it's a decent profit for them. Shame Scottish football has little reputation giving the teams more income/transfer money. Eye opener when you read non league/league sometimes earn the same/more than the SPL

[purpleronnie]

4 minutes ago, UniFox21 said:

Without sounding patronising, it's a decent profit for them. Shame Scottish football has little reputation giving the teams more income/transfer money. Eye opener when you read non league/league sometimes earn the same/more than the SPL

I  think that says more about the stability being risked on some non league clubs that anything else.

[Max Wall]

2 hours ago, UniFox21 said:

Without sounding patronising, it's a decent profit for them. Shame Scottish football has little reputation giving the teams more income/transfer money. Eye opener when you read non league/league sometimes earn the same/more than the SPL

Scottish football has always been a stepping stone, with the exception of a couple of the Souness years at Rangers, when English internationals went in the other direction. In recent years there's been Van Dijk, Robertson now Dembele, amongst others. Whilst the overall quality isn't as strong as some other leagues, it's a decent proving ground for players with ambitions to come to the premier league.

 

I mentioned this in the Benkovic thread, Scottish teams take the odd tanking in European competition but very rarely is it an English club that thrashes them, despite the huge disparity in earnings from one league to another. When it comes to an all British affair, Scottish clubs, with the odd exception, do just fine. Celtic have more or less held their own against both Manchester clubs in recent years and you can go all the way back to Rangers beating then English champions Leeds home and away in the European cup in 1992. The only thrashing I can remember was the all conquering Liverpool beating Alex Ferguson's Aberdeen 5-0 over two legs in 1980. There's bound to be a few since then that I've forgotten but, for the most part, the ties tend to be relatively even.

[Wymsey]

Hope Rangers win at Celtic Park to make the early title race up there more interesting.

[Vacamion]

 

And we think that officials in England are dodgy...

 

 

[Fox92]

Might tune in today, see how Gerrard gets on in his first Old Firm derby.

[fazzyfox]

The result of the Scott Brown derby day yellow card sweepstake is 9 minutes. To be fair he had played within the rules of the game for the previous eight minutes.

[UniFox21]

7 hours ago, Fox92 said:

Might tune in today, see how Gerrard gets on in his first Old Firm derby.

Can't understand a bloody word they're saying 

Edited 2 September 2018 by UniFox21

[ealingfox]

4 hours ago, Vacamion said:

 

And we think that officials in England are dodgy...

 

 

 

This is so fvcking weird. I've watched this 10 times and I've got no idea what's happened. 

[StanSP]

2 minutes ago, ealingfox said:

 

This is so fvcking weird. I've watched this 10 times and I've got no idea what's happened. 

Off the bar, in to the net, probably hit the bottom of the net where it's held down in to the ground and bounced out. It should definitely be a goal. 

[ealingfox]

2 minutes ago, StanSP said:

Off the bar, in to the net, probably hit the bottom of the net where it's held down in to the ground and bounced out. It should definitely be a goal. 

 

Yeah I got that but why did he give a throw in????

[StanSP]

Just now, ealingfox said:

 

Yeah I got that but why did he give a throw in????

as it came out, the defender smacked the ball out of play. So while the players were celebrating, the goal wasn't given at all and play actually continued.

[Vacamion]

7 minutes ago, ealingfox said:

 

This is so fvcking weird. I've watched this 10 times and I've got no idea what's happened. 

 

The net moves.

 

Deffo a goal.

[Asha]

Watch the linesman carefully. He stands there doing nothing and then several seconds after the goal, suddenly flags. Strange.

 

Oh yeah, he's flagging for the throw.

Edited 2 September 2018 by Asha

[Steve_Walsh5]

What a god awful game that was. Did rangers even have a shot? 

 

You can see why Aberdeen’s best striker would rather go and play in the conference league.

[Russell sprout]

I hate Scottish football

[Guest MattP]

Just watched the highlights, terrible game of football by the looks of it.

 

Gerrard has made a great start but they have loads of work still to do to get on a par with the fiddlers.

[Finnegan]

15 hours ago, Russell sprout said:

I hate Scottish football

 

So, uh, don't watch it? 

[RonnieTodger]

I don't understand how Rangers can be so far off the pace, it was like they were playing Man City. I get that they'd try and frustrate Celtic initially, but it was embarrassing to do it for virtually the whole game.

[Wymsey]

Hope Hearts maintain the good run that they're on and seriously compete for first place.

[Wymsey]

At this rate, with Celtic losing at Kilmarnock after conceding a last-minute goal, it's going to be a very interesting title race.

Personally can't see Hearts maintaining their excellent start.

Naismiths' penalty miss yesterday may well have been a massive chance blown to strengthen their grip..

 

[spacemunky]

Was shocked when I looked at the standings and saw Celtic in 6th.

[Facecloth]

Hearts are something like 25/1 to win the league, tempted to stick a tenner on.

[Wymsey]

It seems as if the English FA isn't the only one that needs a shake-up..

The area will be chaotic all day.

 

Is the SPFL right to play both semi-finals on the same day at Hampden?

 

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Edited 29 September 2018 by Wymeswold fox