An Open Letter to the Faux Contemptuous English. It's Time To Respect Scottish Football

"My Nan could score 40 up there."
"Not hard to win the league when youre playing pub teams every week"
"I could manage Celtic and still win the league"

Move over Adrian Durham. His hatefulness of the Scottish game when his pals in Light blue aren't on top of the pile has seemed to trickle down to those of you who seemingly dont care about Football north of the Boarder. Yet you care enough to write about how your Nan could sprint onto a long ball by Stephen McManus, whilst avoiding a crunching tackle by Ash Taylor. And better yet, has the wherewithal to guide a delicate chip over the head of Joe Lewis and into the back of the net. Easy.

Perhaps you dont care. You are probably trapped in your own little bubble. I can only hazard a guess at what goes on with the Premier League PR meetings.
"The best league in the world?" Nah, we cant use that anymore.
"How about... the most exciting?" Nah, Maybe last year, but chelsea have had this in the bag all season.
"Right. I think ive got it. How about the most competitive" Perfect.

England were made to look decidedly average, not once but twice by a team of players who all, with the exception of James Morrison, Started their careers in the SPL Scottish Pub League.

These are players from the holy grail English Premier league that world fawns over. It should have been a non contest.

Yet, I predicted it. I knew if we played well we'd get something.
Well okay, I got one thing wrong: We didnt play well, yet still, we were seconds away from victory.

You laugh at us whilst the rest of the world laughs at the perennial underachievers. Thats you.

Not Scotland. A country of 5 million people. No one expects us to get to Russia and pull up any trees. Maybe it's some kind of attention deflecting technique. If we laugh at another country maybe the big boys will stop laughing at us.

The SPFL isnt the greatest league or anywhere near it. But perhaps you should look at problems a bit closer to home. English teams being embarrassed in Europe despite eclipsing other teams spending.

Or better yet, why dont you come up and take in a few games? Promise you'll enjoy it. Failing that, you might even learn a little something about the game up here.