Quote Originally Posted by Sande_Man View Post
It’s depressing but it’s the same in quite a lot of leagues:

PSG - will win the league 9 seasons out of 10 (should really be 10 out of 10 and most likely will)
Bayern - will win league 9 seasons out of 10 (going for 11 in a row)
Juve/inter/Milan - will win 10 out of 10 (Juve won 9 in a row)
Madrid/Barca/Atletico - will win 10 out of 10 (Atleti winning 2 titles in last 8 years is almost miraculous)
Benfica/Porto - will win 9 out of 10 (sporting winning was miraculous)
PSV/ Ajax - will win 9 out of 10 (feyenoord was a miracle too)

It’s not just Scotland that has suffered from money ruining the game.

Follow the Brazilian league if you want a league that can be won by 4 or 5 different teams each year.plus there’s about 20 derby games! Braw!

Or the NFL….salary cap and draft system means teams don’t dominate for long (patriots was a complete perfect storm)
I agree largely with your post but in the past 40 years or so, apart from the brief early period where Aberdeen and us got the better of them, the Old Firm have totally dominated our League, winning something like the past 35 or 36 themselves. In the same period there have been 7 Spanish, 7 German, 7 Italian and 10 French teams winning their top Division. Portugal is the closest to our League regarding domination by a few teams with only 5 teams winning their top league since it started in the 1930s, two teams only once and the rest split 37/30/19 between Benfica/Porto/Sporting and these teams have dominated the second and third places too. I totally agree that these Leagues are being increasingly dominated by fewer teams and the future winners, likely, are as you predict.

The NFL have at least tried to even things out with their salary cap/draft situation which does work up to a point. Well run teams like the Patriots, the Cowboys and 49ers in the 90s etc. seem to be able to work around the system to build winning dynasties and the poorly run teams continue to bomb (like my team the Dolphins since their heady days of the 80s; high hopes for this season though!). The draft, of course, is an irrelevance to football here but a salary cap could work up to a point if there were ever a cat in hell's chance of it being voted in (thanks again Aberdeen F C).

Still depressed.