SPL - please leave it out BBC

[Donnywolf]

Here we go again. The SPL is on and Celtic are 1/200 to retain their Title.

Scottish Football is a busted flush and has as much interest for me as the Welsh League does or the Irish Leagues either North and South of the Border

So why do the BBC give it so much prominence (well Celtic mainly?) - they have probably already won the League and we don't need to follow every kick - or do we ?

[IC1967]

Dead right. I'd put Scotch football right up there with women's football.

IC1967 (Celtic supporter but don't want it on English TV)

[IDM]

Here we go again. The SPL is on and Celtic are 1/200 to retain their Title.

Scottish Football is a busted flush and has as much interest for me as the Welsh League does or the Irish Leagues either North and South of the Border

So why do the BBC give it so much prominence (well Celtic mainly?) - they have probably already won the League and we don't need to follow every kick - or do we ?

Regardless of the standard of Scottish football, this is the BRITISH Broadcasting Corporation - the clue is in the name.

[IC1967]

Here we go again. The SPL is on and Celtic are 1/200 to retain their Title.

Scottish Football is a busted flush and has as much interest for me as the Welsh League does or the Irish Leagues either North and South of the Border

So why do the BBC give it so much prominence (well Celtic mainly?) - they have probably already won the League and we don't need to follow every kick - or do we ?

Regardless of the standard of Scottish football, this is the BRITISH Broadcasting Corporation - the clue is in the name.

Rather than spending your time on this thread you still have work to do on the Calais thread. Get on with it man.

IC1967 (getting fed up of waiting for answers from economic migrant appeasers)

[IDM]

No, I am done there.

I am not even going to qualify your remarks on women's sport with a reply.

I was answering the OP anyway..

[IC1967]

No, I am done there.

I am not even going to qualify your remarks on women's sport with a reply.

I was answering the OP anyway..

Typical. Hiding behind the excuse that I was prepared to kill people. It really makes my piss boil that you economic migrant appeasers won't answer the fundamental question as to how many millions you'd let in. You won't come up with a viable plan. All you ever say is let the lot of them in. Pathetic.

IC1967 (knew he wouldn't get a proper answer)

[IDM]

For the last time - and on the wrong thread now - I have not offered an opinion on the migration issues, so because I oppose your mass murder plan you make all kinds of assumptions about what I may or may not think.

Just because I choose not to answer your question, does not mean necessarily that I believe the opposite.

I choose not to debate with you - personally - if you don't understand why, that's your luck out..

[IC1967]

Just admit you'd let as many as want to come in.

IC1967

[Glyn_Wigley]

No, I am done there.

I am not even going to qualify your remarks on women's sport with a reply.

I was answering the OP anyway..

Typical. Hiding behind the excuse that I was prepared to kill people. It really makes my piss boil that you economic migrant appeasers won't answer the fundamental question as to how many millions you'd let in. You won't come up with a viable plan. All you ever say is let the lot of them in. Pathetic.

IC1967 (knew he wouldn't get a proper answer)

It's been deemed a silly question so can be ignored in the same way you dodge having to give awkward answers.

[Donnywolf]

Here we go again. The SPL is on and Celtic are 1/200 to retain their Title.

Scottish Football is a busted flush and has as much interest for me as the Welsh League does or the Irish Leagues either North and South of the Border

So why do the BBC give it so much prominence (well Celtic mainly?) - they have probably already won the League and we don't need to follow every kick - or do we ?

Regardless of the standard of Scottish football, this is the BRITISH Broadcasting Corporation - the clue is in the name.

I appreciate what BBC is short for but that rather emphasises my OP. Why do they major on Celtic and the SPL whilst totally ignoring (I hope you agree) The League of Wales and the Northern Irish FL whatever it is called

The answer is probably that the latter 2 are of so poor a standard that nobody would be interested / care who had won what and when and I think the SPL is now as bad and coverage should be restricted or severely scaled back !

Donnywolf (still waiting to see if you answer IC any time soon lol)

[The Red Baron]

I suspect that the coverage was possibly a little greater this weekend because English football is still to get started.

I don't mind them covering the SPL so long as they don't ignore all football below the Premier League in England.

[Rios]

Here we go again. The SPL is on and Celtic are 1/200 to retain their Title.

Scottish Football is a busted flush and has as much interest for me as the Welsh League does or the Irish Leagues either North and South of the Border

So why do the BBC give it so much prominence (well Celtic mainly?) - they have probably already won the League and we don't need to follow every kick - or do we ?

Regardless of the standard of Scottish football, this is the BRITISH Broadcasting Corporation - the clue is in the name.

I appreciate what BBC is short for but that rather emphasises my OP. Why do they major on Celtic and the SPL whilst totally ignoring (I hope you agree) The League of Wales and the Northern Irish FL whatever it is called

The answer is probably that the latter 2 are of so poor a standard that nobody would be interested / care who had won what and when and I think the SPL is now as bad and coverage should be restricted or severely scaled back !

Donnywolf (still waiting to see if you answer IC any time soon lol)

It's got nothing to do with the relative standards of the leagues, it's the 40 to 50 thousand that the Glasgow clubs pull in and the likes of Hearts, Hibs, Aberdeen and Dundee United all pull in healthy crowds for a country of only 5 million.  The average crowds in NI is in four figures and the WPL pulls crowds that would make the NPL blush.

Whether you like it or not, whether you want to watch it or not and whether it makes you cry because it exists is irrelevant.  There's a demand there that the BBC (and Sky/BT/etc) are filling.  If only five people watched a broadcast ithey'd soon stop showing it and there is a demand in England to watch old firm matches.