Actually, the start of the slow descent of Scottish football to where it is now can be traced back to the introduction of the ten team league in Scotland (1975). This was put there using the excuse that it would make the league more competitive and would improve the national squad.
And before 'experts' like Doohg decide to have another pop at Scottish football, bear in mind that around that time (early seventies to early eighties), all the top English teams had several Scottish players on their books.
The strange thing about the really successful Scottish players in England during that era is that with only a few exceptions like Dalglish, Hansen etc, most never actually played professionally in Scotland (think Bremner, Lorimer, Morgan, Harvey, Holton, Law, Hutchison, The Gray Bros, McQueen, Burns, Robertson, Gemmell, etc etc etc).
I fully believe that English football is on the same slippery slope and has been for a good eight years now. Too many imported players in a league dominated by TV. In ten-fifteen years time, you'll all be watching Spanish or Italian footy on Sky and bemoaning the loss of your national league and team to the doldrums of world football, just like Scotland have.
And before 'experts' like Doohg decide to have another pop at Scottish football, bear in mind that around that time (early seventies to early eighties), all the top English teams had several Scottish players on their books.
The strange thing about the really successful Scottish players in England during that era is that with only a few exceptions like Dalglish, Hansen etc, most never actually played professionally in Scotland (think Bremner, Lorimer, Morgan, Harvey, Holton, Law, Hutchison, The Gray Bros, McQueen, Burns, Robertson, Gemmell, etc etc etc).
I fully believe that English football is on the same slippery slope and has been for a good eight years now. Too many imported players in a league dominated by TV. In ten-fifteen years time, you'll all be watching Spanish or Italian footy on Sky and bemoaning the loss of your national league and team to the doldrums of world football, just like Scotland have.
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