O/T When the phuck will this country wake up?.
The money being poured into English football from subscription TV took on a new meaning this week when Manchester United paid FIFTY MILLION POUNDS for an U21 Crystal Palace fullback who is so one footed he scored an own goal that effectively knocked England out of the U21 Euro's last week.
The Lionesses have had millions poured into their bid for world cup glory whereas their Scottish counterparts have hardly got a pot to pyss in,it may have escaped your attention but per capita Scotland pay more to subscription channel's than any other nation in the UK but our clubs,men's and women's national sides get pennies compared to their English counterparts.
Last week Arsenal bid around 13 million pounds for Tierney the Celtic fullback who in my opinion is better than Wan-Bissaka the 50 million pound man and Robertson is twice the player of both of them.The common man or woman in England sneer at our nation's sporting prowess but is it any wonder?,our league's and national team's are in this age of TV money being massively underfunded yet this nation built on the reputation of Wallace and Bruce remain subservient to our southern masters.
As the title of the thread asks,when the phuck are we as a nation gonna wake up?,i am a very proud Scot and find it humiliating that the men's football team have failed to qualify for a major since 1998 especially when i see Iceland with a population less than Edinburgh knocking our master's oot O the Euro's and Croatia playing them aff the pitch in a World Cup Semi Final as an independent nation with a population over a million short of our's.
We cannot go back to the halcyon days when we produced players from poverty and the tenements playing in the streets with a tennis ball,if we are ever gonna produce players like Baxter,Johnstone or Sturrock it need's to be funded by this country being independent and getting a fairer deal from SKY.BT,etc,if people cannie see that then i honestly worry where the game in Scotland will end up,in my opinion its a complete joke at the moment and a lot of people who have supported their club and the national team are feeling disenfranchised.
I suppose we do bring some of our game's troubles upon ourselves though cos when the SFA said that Rod Petrie was in tears when appointed president of the SFA its only fair to mention that i shed a few myself,FACT.
