My European Super League View - My Structure.
I think there should be a European Super League in soccer.
My view is there has to be relegation and promotion.
A top division of 20 sides. 4 teams relegated each season.
With two second of east and west.
With two third divisions of east and west.
With a qualification tournament to get promotion to the ESL pyramid. Run like a Champions League format with the top four teams getting promoted to the third division each season.
Aberdeen had a poor result against Glasgow Rangers in the Scottish Premiership.
Barron scored for Aberdeen.
Colak, Lundstram, Tavernier and Morelos scored for Glasgow Rangers,
Over the Weekend in the Scottish Premier;
Dundee United lost 1-0 to Motherwell.
Hibs beat St Mirren 3-1.
St Johnstone beat Kilmarnock 1-0.
Celtic beat Livingston 3-0.
Hearts beat Ross County 2-1.
Celtic And Rangers In European Super League.
I think Scottish clubs should join a European Super League if it is created.
I think there should be relegation and promotion.
Scottish clubs would benefit from being in a European Super League.
1. It would increase the profile of Scottish clubs.
2. Scotland is in Europe.
3. Scotland has some massive club sides.
4. Scotland has a great football history.
5. It would be good to get in on the start before other teams have won tonnes of European Super Leagues.
6. Scottish football would earn big money from it.
7. Scottish clubs could start at the top tier rather than starting way down the tiers.
Heart of Midlothian 2 Rigas Futbola Skola 1 - Europa Conference League.
On Thursday Hearts defeated Latvian side RFS.
The goals for Hearts were scored by Shankland and Halliday.
The Latvian side goal was scored by Friesenbichler.
It is a second group stage for Hearts this season.
Napoli 3 Glasgow Rangers 0.
Scottish giants Glasgow Rangers were defeated by Italian giants Napoli in Italy yesterday.
The game was played in the UEFA Champions League group stages.
The Napoli goals were scored by Simeone twice and once by Östigard once.
I hope all the Scottish clubs do well in Europe, including Celtic and Rangers. So it has been some disappointing results in the Champions League group stages this season.
Hopefully Celtic and Rangers will improve for Europe next year.
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Glasgow Celtic 1 Shakhtar Donetsk 1.
In the UEFA Champions League, Glasgow Celtic have drawn 1-1 with Shakhtar Donetsk.
The game was played in Glasgow, Scotland, yesterday.
Giakoumakis scored for Glasgow Celtic.
Mudryk scored for Shakhtar Donetsk.
The result ensures Glasgow Celtic finish bottom of their Champions League Group.
With one game left, they have managed 2 points from 5 games.
It would have been nice to see Celtic qualify from the group.
Paris Saint Germain 7 Maccabi Haifa 2.
In the UEFA Champions League, yesterday. the French side PSG, defeated the Israeli side Maccabi Haifa, by seven goals to two in Paris.
The PSG goals were scored by Messi twice, Mbappé twice, Neymar, an own goal and Soler.
The Haifa goals were scored by Seck.
PSG will be wanting to win the trophy this season.
Aberdeen had an impressive 2-1 win over Motherwell in the SPFL on Saturday.
The result takes them to thirds place.
McKinstry scored for Motherwell.
Miovski and de Barros Lopes scored for Aberdeen.
In the other SPFL Premiership results over Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
Hearts lost 4-3 to Celtic.
Kilmarnock beat Ross County 1-0.
Glasgow Rangers drew 1-1 with Livingston.
St Mirren beat Dundee United 2-1.
St Johnstone beat Hibernian 2-1.
Over the Weekend there were other notable results.
Some of the notable results include;
Ayr United 2 Cove Rangers 2 in the Scottish Championship.
Falkirk 2 Kelty Hearts 3 in the Scottish League One.
In the Scottish FA Cup some notable results included,
Buckie Thistle lost to Bromhill by 3-1.
Dalbeattie Star 1 Darvel 7.
Elgin City 4 Camelon Juniors 0.
Wick Academy 2 Benburb 0.
Fraserburgh 2 Stranraer 1.
In the Scottish Highland League some results included;
Brora Rangers 4 Forres Mechanics 1.
Inverurie Loco Works 3 Lossiemouth 2
In the Scottish Lowland League results included;
Gala Fairydean 3 Heart of Midlothian B 3.
Glasgow Rangers B 3 Berwick Rangers 0.
Aberdeen Draw Rangers In Scottish League Cup Semi-Final.
The draw for the Scottish League Cup has been made.
Aberdeen will play Glasgow Rangers.
Kilmarnock will play Glasgow Celtic in the other semi-final.
Aberdeen 4 Partick Thistle 1 - Scottish League Cup.
Aberdeen have won in the quarter-finals of the Scottish League Cup.
Aberdeen had an impressive 4-1 victory.
The Aberdeen goals were scored by de Barros Lopes, and own goal, Coulson and Duncan.
The Partick Thistle goal was scored by Brownlie.
Aberdeen have now reached the semi-finals of the Scottish League Cup.
Also on the same day in the Scottish League Cup, Glasgow Celtic defeated Motherwell 4-0 and Dundee lost 1-0 to Glasgow Rangers.
Kilmarnock 2 Dundee United 1 - Scottish League Cup Quarter-Final.
Kilmarnock have won through to the semi-finals of the Scottish League Cup after defeating Dundee United 2-1 in Kilmarnock.
Middleton scored for Dundee United.
Lafferty and Armstrong scored for Kilmarnock.
Kilmarnock have won the Scottish League Cup once before.
Glasgow Celtic and Glasgow Rangers should not join the English Leagues.
The main reasons are
1)
People would think Scotland was part of England,
if our biggest sides played in the English leagues.
2)
Celtic and Rangers might go decades without wining
domestic trophies like other big sides like Leeds United, Everton, Spurs, West
Ham United, Coventry City and Newcastle United.
3)
All the Scottish trophies would be relegated to
the status of non-league trophies. So all those trophies Celtic, Rangers,
Aberdeen, Hearts and Hibs have won in over 100 years of history would be
relegated to the status of non-league trophies.
So people would think Celtic and Rangers have won no trophies. Which
would be a humiliating.
4)
Celtic and Rangers might have to start at the
bottom of the English system. So it could take decades to reach the English
Premier League. What is the point in giving up European football to play in the
non-league system?
5)
They might get rid of the Scottish national side
if the Old Firm joined the English leagues.
6)
We could lose a vital part of our identity.
7)
Attendances, TV rights and sponsorship would
collapse in the Scottish league.
8)
Scottish clubs might never reach the Champions
League group stages again.
9)
Scottish clubs would only rarely reach the
Europa League group stages.
10)
The Scottish league would no longer decide who
the best team in Scotland are. It would be for the teams who aren’t good enough
play in the English leagues.
The Chaos Logic.
I have heard people say well Scottish football is so
uncompetitive, or so rubbish, or so boring, that we have nothing to lose in
getting rid of Celtic and Rangers from the Scottish Leagues.
But that is nonsense. At present we have the 8th
strongest league in UEFA. We had Rangers reaching the Europa League final. And Celtic
getting to the Europa conference league knockout stages.
We are not a bad league. And if we gave up Celtic and Rangers
from the league our league would collapse. We would be like the Welsh and
Northern Irish league. Our league champions would be beaten by teams from San
Marino, Andorra and the Faroe Islands,
One of our top teams losing 7-1 to Liverpool the Champions
League runners-up, is bad. But compare that to the Scottish Champions losing
7-1 to a team from the Irish league or Denmark. Which is what would happen.
We do not need to destroy Scottish football just because the
Old Firm lost heavily to one of the best teams in the World.
Man Utd lost 6-3 to Man City recentely. Does that mean Man
Utd should join the English bottom tier and spend 20 years working their way up
again?
The well you never know attitude-
Some idiots claim that attitude of well; you never know what
could happen?
But that is a apocalyptic logic.
They think that if the Old Firm joined the English leagues
then the likes of Ross County, Dunfermline, or St Johnstone would start getting
20,000 fans at matches and would beat Juventus in the Champions League Final.
And that Celtic and Rangers would win the EPL each year.
Well I can tell you that is fantasy land. What would really
happen is.
The Scottish league would be like the Irish and Welsh league.
Our teams would struggle to get over 4000 fans at matches at best. Our teams
would not get further than the Europa League Group stages in Europe. Football
would collapse as a national sport because our fans would all turn to English football
like Ireland and Wales.
Instead of Scottish people supporting Celtic and Rangers
they would support English clubs instead.
We would go from having the 8th strongest league
in Europe to one of the worst 5 or 6 leagues in Europe. And I mean a league on a par with San Marino
and Andorra.
The Better Option
What I cannot understand is why we do not simply go for the
best of both worlds. Where we keep our own Scottish, Welsh and English and big
clubs, but have cross border cups on top of domestic and European football.
Like the best of both worlds so Glasgow Celtic, Glasgow Rangers,
Aberdeen, Motherwell, Hearts, Hibs and Dundee United can still qualify for
Europe, but also play extra Pan-Great Britain Cups on top of that.
Have a system where Motherwell, Aberdeen, Hearts can make
lots of money from Pan-Great Britain Cups, so THEN have the finances to
challenge the Old Firm for the Scottish League. So we actually have non-Old
Firm teams wining the Scottish League with the Old Firm still in the league.
The Scottish have been allowed Northern Irish and Welsh
sides in the Scottish Challenge Cup.
My ideas include;
1.
Bring back the Anglo Scottish Cup.
2.
Merge the Scottish League Cup, Welsh League Cup
and English League Cup as the Great Britain Cup. A group stage trophy.
3.
Invite Celtic and Rangers as guests in the
English FA Cup.
4.
Invite all Scottish Premiership sides not in
Europe, and selected Welsh Cymru Premier sides into the English Football League
Trophy.
5.
Invite all Scottish Premiership and Scottish
Championship sides not in Europe and all Welsh Cymru Premier sides into the
non-league FA Trophy.
6.
Invite Celtic, Rangers, two other Scottish
sides, and two best Welsh league sides to play in a cross border Great Britain
Premier Cup for all EPL sides that have not qualified for Europe.
7.
Have a Celtic Club Cup with all Scottish Premier
sides, and selected sides from Ireland, Wales, Brittany, The Isle of Man and
Cornwall.
I am not ant-English. I think we can have 3 strong national
leagues in Great Britain, not just one. The English league is one of the
strongest in the World. The Scottish
league is one of the strongest in Europe. But the Scottish and Welsh leagues could
grow with extra Pan Great Britain Cups on top of European and domestic football.
Aberdeen had a superb 2-0 home win against the Heart of Midlothian side on Sunday.
The two Aberdeen goals were scored by de Barros Lopes and Besuijen.
The result lifts Aberdeen up the table to fourth place.
Over the Weekend the other results in the Scottish Premiership were;
Motherwell 1 Glasgow Rangers 2.
Glasgow Celtic 6 Hibernian 1.
Livingston 1 St Johnstone 0.
Ross County 1 Dundee United 1.
St Mirren 0 Kilmarnock 0.
Some of the other notable results in the SPFL over the weekend included;
In the Scottish Championship, Cove Rangers lost 1-0 to Inverness Caledonian Thistle.
In the Scottish League One, Queen of the South beat Peterhead 0.
In the Scottish League Two, Elgin City lost 1-0 to Forfar Athletic.
Some of the notable results in the Scottish Highland League included;
Brechin City 5 Keith 0.
Nairn County 0 Brora Rangers 4.
Rothers lost 4-2 to Buckie Thistle.
It was a bad soccer day for Aberdeen fans on Saturday, as the Dons lost 4-0 to New Firm rivals Dundee United at Tannadice,
Dundee United scored goals via an own goal, Behich, Watt and McGrath.
Aberdeen are disappointed by the result.
Also over the Weekend in the Scottish Premiership.
Hearts drew 2-2 with Kilmarnock.
Glasgow Celtic beat St Johnstone 2-1.
Hibernian beat Motherwell 1-0.
Glasgow Rangers beat St Mirren 4-0.
Livingston lost 1-0 to Ross County.
Some of the other notable SPFL results included;
Arbroath drawing 1-1 with Dundee in the Scottish Championship.
Airdrieonians drawing 3-3 with Queen of the South in Scottish League One.
Stenhousemuir drawing 2-2 with Annan Athletic in Scottish League Two.
In the Scottish Highland League one of the notable results was;
Brora Rangers 0 Brechin City 3.
While in the Scottish Lowland League some notable results included;
Glasgow Rangers B 3 Edinburgh University 1.
Tranent Juniors 0 Glasgow Celtic B 1.
Bo'ness United 1 Gala Fairydean 2.
East Kilbride 0 Cowdenbeath 1
Thank for reading.
Paris Saint Germain 2 Nice 1.
Yesterday Paris Saint Germain defeated Nice 2-1.
Messi and Mbappé scored each for PSG.
Laborde scored for Nice.
The result keeps PSG top of the French football league system.
PSG are one of the best known soccer teams in the World.
They have dominated the French leagues for a few years now. PSG have won 8 league titles in the last ten years.
Aberdeen 4 Kilmarnock 1 SPFL.
Aberdeen had an impressive 4 - 1 home win against Kilmarnock.
Besuijen and Stewart scored once each and Miovski scored twice.
Taylor scored for Kilmarnock.
In the other Scottish Premierships games of the day.
Hearts lost 4-0 to Glasgow Rangers.
Glasgow Celtic beat Motherwell 2-1.
Dundee United lost 2-1 to St Johnstone.
Ross County lost 2-0 to Hibernian.
St Mirren won 2-1 against Livingston.
Some of the other notable results today included;
Some of the results in the Scottish Championship included;
Inverness Caledonian Thistle beat Ayr United 2-1.
Cove Rangers beat Arbroath 2-0.
In the Scottish League One, one of the notable results were;
Dunfermline Athletic 2 Peterhead 2.
Falkirk 2 Clyde 0.
In the Scottish League Two some notable results included;
Elgin City 5 Annan Athletic 1.
Stranraer 2 Albion Rovers 1.
Some of the notable results in the Scottish Highland League included;
Buckie Thistle 7 Turriff United 1.
Inverurie Loco Works 0 Brechin City 1.
In the Scottish Lowland League some of the notable results included;
Gala Fairydean 3 Glasgow Celtic B 4.
Heart of Midlothian B 2 Glasgow Rangers B 3.
Edinburgh University 1 Broomhill 4.
