Much ado about nothing as Old Firm cause lower league carnage
Rangers and Celtic have won their first battle in their attempts to get colts teams into the Lowland League after the teams voted to accept a proposal that would see them play in the fifth tier of Scottish next season.
It has been a hugely controversial and emotive debate over whether or not the Old Firm colt teams should gain access at any level of the SPFL, personally, I don’t think it should be as black and white as to whether or not they should be admitted and that a trial period would at least be some sort of common ground.
We only have to look as far back as last summer to see how reluctant Scottish football is to change or interested in a common good, teams like Hearts and Partick Thistle paid the price for self serving voters rather than entertaining the idea of reconstruction – even for a few years – to soften the blow of Covid-19.
The other argument I see is that the lower leagues shouldn’t be used to develop players for the Old Firm, ironic when you consider that Rangers alone have nearly 25 players currently at clubs at various levels of the pyramid. There was one fixture this season where the Auchenhowie academy provided a quarter of the players on the park and nearly half in total who had been at Ibrox at some point as a youngster.
Vital Rangers Goal of the Season
Defoe v Livingston
Roofe v Standard Liege
Jack v Kilmarnock
Tavernier v Dundee United
The biggest gripes have come from organisations like the East of Scotland League in tier six who seem to think that the inclusion of Rangers and Celtic in the league above them has impacted them, it hasn’t. There isn’t any promotion to the Lowland League this season because of Covid-19, the leagues below were declared null and void. Next season things will carry on as normal.
The outrage and anger really isn’t necessary, nobody is being relegated, nobody is being denied promotion and nobody is out of pocket, Scottish football eh, wha’s like us?!