Richard Wilson Article In The Herald

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If we struggle to sell the SPL product in Scotland, what chance is there of raking it in elsewhere?

 

You just have to ask people on here, what would you prefer to watch: Hibs vs Hearts (biggest non OF game) or a big English game like Arsenal vs Chelsea?

 

I would bet the latter would get the biggest vote.

 

A huge problem is that a duopoly is pretty tiresome and you end up only interested in the two big clubs which makes the rest of it very dull. Even a third team would make a massive difference and with all due respect to Hibs, I feel saving them was a mistake for Scottish football on the whole. Twenty years of a single Edinburgh team could have created a third force which really fleshes out the result permutations on matchday and increases the attractiveness of the league.

 

It's never going to happen, especially as we can see that all the clubs are far too self interested even to the point of threatening to reduce our league to a monopoly with no interest at all.

 

Instead of blaming Rangers for all the ills of our league and trying to bring us down to their level, perhaps clubs should be looking at what they can do to raise themselves up. The ludicrousness of Dundee having two clubs with stadiums on the same street is an obvious place to start and I can see the point of merging quite a few clubs round the country with more of a franchise model.