What must it be like

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  1. Red

    Redblueunwhite Well-Known Member

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    to support Celtic and think 'What score will we WIN this week'. Would it be great or boring ?
     
    Redblueunwhite, Dec 6, 2023
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    Boring. I even got bored watching my sons team when they won too easily!
     
    Redhelen, Dec 6, 2023
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    Redblueunwhite Well-Known Member

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    Depends who we're playing Helen lol. But i suppose if you're winning that regularly the defeats must hurt more cos yer not use to em.
     
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    North Yorks Red Well-Known Member

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    Boooring
     
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    It’s just unfortunate that the SPL now only has one team of any worth in it. It used to have two. But the gap between Celtic and Rangers is now as big as the gap between Man City and everyone else in the EPL.
     
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    Flip side of this question is what does it feel like to know you will win in the league you are in but actually are still not very good in grander scheme of things?
     
    lk311, Dec 7, 2023
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    Redblueunwhite Well-Known Member

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    Yeah you're right they aren't very good in Europe.
     
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    Redblueunwhite Well-Known Member

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    And Man City are having a blip for a change.
     
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    Absolutely garbage!!!

    That’s why I think it’s important that we have a new winner of the premier league this year and not city again
     
    judith charmers, Dec 7, 2023
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    Not really so big a gap this year mate :)
     
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    The Celtic fan I know thinks it's brilliant.
     
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    Imagine having the opportunity to show how poor you are in Europe though.
     
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    They're so poor in Europe because they aren't challenged domestically. The Liverpool side in the seventies and eighties was great but so was the standard of the other clubs.

    It was only in the late nineties when Wenger came to Arsenal that Manchester Utd excelled in Europe. They had no one to push them until then. That paved the way for Chelsea and latterly Manchester City and Liverpool to emerge as forces. Quite a bit was due to finance. However, that improved the competition.

    This culminated in what hopefully is transpiring this season with Arsenal, Liverpool, Aston Villa, Man City, Man Utd and Tottenham fighting it out at the top.
     
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    English teams were banned from European competition from Heysel until 1990 (Liverpool 91) - so they also took a few years to get back into the swing of European competition.
     
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    I agree but I also think Man Utd had to go up a level because the challenge was better from Arsenal.
     
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    I don’t think it’s that they aren’t challenged I think it’s more that the financial gap between the best leagues in Europe & the smaller ones is getting bigger.

    They get the champions league money that allows them to dominate domestically but the Scottish league is pretty worthless in terms of TV rights.

    I don’t think it’s just a Scottish issue either. It feels to me like Scandinavian, Balkan, Swiss, Greek, Turkish, Russian & Ukrainian (pre-war) sides have suffered the same issues. There’s a much smaller chance of a team from a weaker league getting to the latter stages than there used to be.

    Unless of course they get in a group with Man Utd & then they’ve got every chance of competing like Copenhagen & Galatasaray!
     
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    First common sense reply that hits the nail on the head.
     
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    If you look back at the European Cup in the 80s, you saw teams from Ukraine, Romania, Bulgaria and Belgium (just in 82) in the quarter and semi-finals. The switch to the Champions League made it much harder for the smaller teams to compete.
     
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    We can only dream lol.
     
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    And the removal of restriction of trade as well was the start of it. CL wouldn’t have anywhere near same impact with it.
     
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