The Scottish Premier League is currently playing it’s 17th season (this is the 112th season of 1st division professional Scottish football). Reigning champions are Celtic. Here is an overview of the 07/08 season, and a preview of this season, from http://www.betinf.com/prev_scott.htm.
Here is Wikipedia’s page on the Celtic/Rangers rivalry, aka “The Old Firm” {Click here}.
Scottish Premier League table {Click here (Soccer Stats site) }.
Thanks to the European Football Statistics site {Click here}.
Thanks to http://www.demis.nl for the base map.
Thanks to the Unprofessional Foul site {Click here}, which added my site to it’s blogroll this week.
PS, the map looked a little sparse, so I slapped togather a little chart with the 07/08 kits of all 12 clubs, listing their national titles and cups, and seasons in the Scottish top flight. Thanks to the RSSSF site for Hamilton Accies info {see this}. Thanks to the Colours Of Football site, for the kits {Click here}.
<p>Lovely. Linking to the post, the site and the map now. The attendance figures and crest-size scale are great additions. Thanks for putting this together.</p>
site: http://scotland.theoffside.com/
Answer: You are welcome, and thanks for the compliment and the link !
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Thank you, it was interesting to read.
Comment by Roger — October 6, 2008 @ 12:04 pm
Just going through your posts have really gotten me interested in soccer a lot more then I used to be. I have learned a lot reading your material. Thanks for the inspiration and keep up the good work.
Answer: You know, just the other day I was wondering if I had turned any US or Canadian viewers into European football (soccer) fans…glad to see my propaganda is working, heh-heh. I’m sorry, but once I disscovered the concept of relegation/promotion, US based sports leagues suddenly seemed pale by comparision. How can leagues in free-market countries like USA and Canada have sports leagues which act as capitalist enterprises, but fail to follow free market rules concerning membership, and cling to exclusionary socialist rules governing membership ? In the rest of the business world, if your business is unsuccessful, you go under. Why do consistantly unsuccessful US and Canadian pro sports teams have an exemption from this ? Relegation and promotion consistently renews the entire energy of the league. Teams must perform, or they will be playing in the bush leagues the next year. What a beautiful concept. And no, it doen’t punish good athletes on bad teams, because the fluidity of the transfer market allows for the prize players on a relegated team to find a spot on another team in a first division league.
Comment by lists — October 14, 2008 @ 12:30 pm
and what do you think about gas problwm in Ukraine?
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Answer: Putin thinks Ukraine doen’t deserve to be a country. If he could he would invade Ukraine, but thankfully that’s impossible. So he will do things like this to screw with Ukraine. The real problem is that too many people in Russia still cling to the antiquated notion that a great nation is defined by how many other nations you can invade and control and keep under your jackboot. That’s why some fools in Russia venerate the all-time biggest murderer in world history, Stalin. Russians need to understand that a great nation is defined by the standard of living of it’s inhabitants. Thay’s why the tiny nation of the Netherlands is a more successful nation than sprawling Russia. Once a majority of Russians come to the realization that glory for a nation does not lie in imperialism, but in creating a high standard of living for it’s people, the whole world will be better off.
Ukraine just wants to be left out of the orbit of Russia. The people who have run Russia, from the Tsar to the Communists have never done one positive thing for the Ukrainian people. 60% of all people who were sent to Siberia (ie, almost certainly sent to their death) were Ukrainians. If I lived then, I’m sure I would have been one of them.
I feel if parts of eastern Ukraine break off and re-join Russia, that might not be such a bad thing. Sort of like amputating an infected limb to keep the body alive.
Thanks for asking. Take care.
Comment by Sisy — January 18, 2009 @ 8:16 am
It was very useful!
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Comment by Beeend — January 19, 2009 @ 2:39 pm
I liked it. So much useful material. I read with great interest.
Comment by Ventego — October 29, 2009 @ 2:38 pm