ban-mcfc said:skybluetartan said:Dont like the old firm especially the sectarianism but describing the game as a pub game is absolute bull both old firm teams would definetly do well in the championship if not stay in the premier league if they had sky tv money they would get europe. Also celtic put up a good show in the EL in a group with class teams like Atletico Madrid and Udinese. People need to stop over critising scottish football we have done very well with our population over the years england have 10x the population and relatively their sucess isnt much better.
celtic got knocked out easily twice.
ban-mcfc said:skybluetartan said:ban-mcfc said:celtic got knocked out easily twice.
They were 1 goal from going through the groups.
first or second time?
So did Fulham and Middlesbrough, so I'm not sure what that says about the quality of either the UEFA Cup/Europa League or the old firm, to be honest. I watched the Rangers game last saturday (against St Mirren, IIRC?) and, notwithstanding the rotten weather, the standard of football on show, even from Rangers, was pretty dire to be honest. Fair enough; it isn't ''pub football'', but I'd fancy most of the top 8 in the championship (the likes of Leeds, West Ham, Southampton etc etc) to give either of the old firm a bloody difficult game.law74 said:Is the SPL as good as the EPL or as i prefer to call it the Division One of the English FA, i think not, but both the old firm have reached european finals a lot more recently than we have, so perhaps we are not in the best position to judge,
Having attended games at Ibrox (a great stadium), Rugby park, Thon ground on the banks of the Tees, Ayresome Park and a few others, the passion for the supporters of Scottish fans is the same as we had in our dark days, so please less of the rag type gloating.
mad4city said:Our bigots against their bigots?
C'mon our bigots!
The sad thing is that Scotland can genuinely lay claim to having contributed to the birth of football and its development on a world scale... and this is what it's been reduced to - a bunch of f**kwit fans belting out vile abuse at each other, oh, and a game of ball on the side.
Of course, I blame their bigots.