Scottish Football - Less League, More Cross Border Cup Games.

The Scottish League is very strong. But my view on how to improve the system in Scottish football, would be to have less league games, and more cross border games with club teams from other countries. 

I  say have a 14 team top division, with teams playing each other twice a season. 

This creates a 26 game season. 

Then this opens up over 12 games removed from the calendar so that more trophies can be added to the roster that Scottish teams play. 

My view is that Celtic and Rangers should stay in the Scottish League, but that we should have more cross border cups games added onto the domestic league, Scottish Cup, League Cup, and European games we already play. 

By reducing the number of games we play in the league, we would open the system, so that we could play cross border games against teams from the other countries of the British and Irish Isles, or from mainland Europe. 

We could have cross border cups with the English club sides, or Welsh club sides. And even the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. 

If they do not want to play Scottish sides, then we could have cross border cups with other countries across Europe, such as the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Poland, Switzerland, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, Austria, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Portugal, Luxembourg, Slovenia, Croatia, Greece, or even Russia. 

We would have to play teams that took our new trophy seriously. The trophy would be on top of European football. 

Obviously the trophy would need to be taken seriously by the respective countries involved. 

The reason I would like a new cross border trophy is to give Scottish sides the chance to have an impact outside of Scotland. We would be strong in such trophies. It could also allow Scottish sides to grow, to better in European level trophies. Also it spices up the season in playing international rivalries on top of local derbies and rivalries.

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