I think in football, Scotland needs to get a cross border cup. Keep the Scottish League, and keep the big clubs in the league. I do not want Celtic and Rangers to join the English Leagues. But what about having a cross border cup with clubs from another country for the top 4 sides, from Scotland, in a group stage trophy, with another country? Perhaps even the 12 Scottish Premier sides and sides from, the English, Welsh, and Irish Leagues. Or if they do not want it. How about a cup with Dutch, Belgians, Portuguese, or the Scandinavian countries? Even with Poland, and the Central European countries.
I would prefer a trophy with the other countries of the British and Irish Isles to cut down on travel. But if they do not want to we could go further afield, further into Europe.
Also if the English say they play too many games, to have a competition with us. Well as I have said there is a solution to the problem. Limit how many games a player can play in the Scottish and English Leagues per season, to leave spare weeks to play in the Scottish Leagues. That would free up time to have extra games, in a new competition.
In baseball and ice hockey in the USA club teams play over 100 games a season. In the NBA they play over 80 games a season.
The clubs do not play too many games in Scotland, and England. It is simply the players playing too many games.
So my idea is keep Scottish teams playing in the domestic league, and keep domestic cups, and European football, but have on top of that a new cross border cup with teams from another country.
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