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- From: stuartw@spider.co.uk (Stuart Wilson)
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- Subject: Re: Scottish League/Scottish Super League
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.132305.7585@spider.co.uk>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 13:23:05 GMT
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- >>>> In article <1993Jan15.094340.1@vaxa.strath.ac.uk> cbas38@vaxa.strath.ac.uk writes:
- >>>>
- >> ISN'T THAT WHAT THE SUPERLEAGUERS ARE DOING?
- >>
- >
- > The idea of the Super League was to improve the overall
- >standard of play in this country.
-
- How? By returning to 10 clubs facing each other 4 times. The small clubs let
- the big guns have this before and all we got was moaning that teams were too
- familiar with each other and the lower clubs were too scared of relegation to
- play football. Even worse, this time it will not be the 10 best sides in the
- country but the 10 richest.
-
- The Super League is all about the top clubs wanting more money and power.
-
- >There are too many hangers on in the game,
- >just waiting for the occasional pay day when the Old Firm visit them. They
- >have no ambition and hold back the progress of the top clubs.
-
- These "hangers on" have let the big clubs change the league twice within the
- last twenty years and we are still no further forward. The second time had
- apsolutely nothing to do with football, the top half of the premier league
- wanted more power and the bottom half were scared of relegation. They forced it
- through by threatening a breakaway and totally ignored the needs of the smaller
- clubs. As a result the smaller clubs decided to take care of themselves and
- forced the, admittedly far from perfect, current setup.
-
- Top clubs recently criticised the league's proposlas for change because of
- the loss of points half way through the season. I didn't aggree with this but
- found it hard to understand Aberdeen and Rangers objections. After all this was
- exactly what they had proposed for the smaller clubs the previous season. Of
- course when the smaller clubs rejected this they were accused of only thinking
- about themselves etc...
-
- If all the clubs got together they might find a working solution but while
- the big clubs have a "we'll go our way and you can do what you like" attitude,
- which they have had since before the current setup, the small clubs will be
- forced to put their own future before anything else.
-
- Stuart Wilson
-