Over nearly 150yrs plenty of Scottish clubs have won one of the two cups in the same season, but outside of the OF only (Ferguson’s) Aberdeen have done it, and even though they are the club of the 3rd largest Scottish city they have only done it twice. As the club of a provincial city of under 50,000 population, what St Johnstone have just done is unlikely to EVER be repeated.
Why should we care south of the border? It has no relevance to our Leagues?Over nearly 150yrs plenty of Scottish clubs have won one of the two cups in the same season, but outside of the OF only (Ferguson’s) Aberdeen have done it, and even though they are the club of the 3rd largest Scottish city they have only done it twice. As the club of a provincial city of under 50,000 population, what St Johnstone have just done is unlikely to EVER be repeated.
But I guess rather than recognise and celebrate the achievement of the club it’s easier for south of the border to dismiss it or make a joke of it...QED.
Over nearly 150yrs plenty of Scottish clubs have won one of the two cups in the same season, but outside of the OF only (Ferguson’s) Aberdeen have done it, and even though they are the club of the 3rd largest Scottish city they have only done it twice. As the club of a provincial city of under 50,000 population, what St Johnstone have just done is unlikely to EVER be repeated.
But I guess rather than recognise and celebrate the achievement of the club it’s easier for south of the border to dismiss it or make a joke of it...QED.
Over nearly 150yrs plenty of Scottish clubs have won one of the two cups in the same season, but outside of the OF only (Ferguson’s) Aberdeen have done it, and even though they are the club of the 3rd largest Scottish city they have only done it twice. As the club of a provincial city of under 50,000 population, what St Johnstone have just done is unlikely to EVER be repeated.
But I guess rather than recognise and celebrate the achievement of the club it’s easier for south of the border to dismiss it or make a joke of it...QED.
I'm a lifelong football fan. I had to look up the results to see what you were talking about.Over nearly 150yrs plenty of Scottish clubs have won one of the two cups in the same season, but outside of the OF only (Ferguson’s) Aberdeen have done it, and even though they are the club of the 3rd largest Scottish city they have only done it twice. As the club of a provincial city of under 50,000 population, what St Johnstone have just done is unlikely to EVER be repeated.
But I guess rather than recognise and celebrate the achievement of the club it’s easier for south of the border to dismiss it or make a joke of it...QED.
Also, likening winning a Scottish cup to winning the English Premier League was absolutely absurd. ?
Tbh most of us don't give a flip about the vastly overrated epl either !
Me neither, but it's hard to avoid.
. Can't even combine 20 PDFs without it crashing every time. But hey the company has saved a few quid so that's alright.
Absolutely the case with St Johnstone - though ‘local’ area as in Scotland. Every player who played in the two cup finals was born in Scotland, and many are lads from Perth and area. Obviously St Johnstone and other clubs do recruit from rUK and very occasionally overseas, but they don‘t have budget for transfer fees or higher wages. I don’t think StJ paid any transfer fees for the current team. Average StJ player salary is about £55k a year.
..and a liar and manipulator into the bargain - on the personal side of course - testing his eyesight...yeh right. Funny how some who seemed to love him now hate him. Don’t think his character has changed. Btw - I have no love whatsoever for him.
My gripe with the Guardian (and ST) is that this was the Cup Final and there are plenty of Scots in rUK who might care. But not a mention. Bet if either of the OF had been playing there would have been a report.
There are a gazillion other ways of finding the information. Prompted by your post, it took me about 20 seconds to find the reports, and I'm not even interested. Surely an avid follower of Scottish domestic football isn't waiting to find the results in tomorrow's Guardian?
Oh for goodness sake. This is a complaint about the press not reporting the single most important football match of the year in Scotland, it’s nothing to do with having a go at England and the English.
