door Eduard Canard » 05-02-2003 11:26
The English clubs voted 20-0 AGAINST even discussing the possibility of Rangers and Celtic joining their league. It's dead in the water.
We have the opposite problem, fans are disappearing like snow off a dyke. Take last night, Dunfermline played Livingston (both Scottish Premier clubs) in the cup and 3,000 people turned out. A few years ago that would have drawn at least 10,000. The same thing at my own club, Aberdeen, we were due to play a first division club in the cup last night (it was snowed off) and only 6,000 tickets were sold. We're struggling to get 10,000 for home games in the league.
The anger in Scotland is because Rangers and Celtic are already the richest clubs and keep on taking more and more money, the rest are now so far behind with no prospect of closing the gap our league is a joke, but they still want more. The 10 other premier league clubs handed in their notice to quit the league in 2 years last June because of R&C's demands over TV & Internet money. Unfortunately they've chickened out and it looks like the resignations will be withdrawn. However, the fans of the other clubs still want them out.