Letter: Playing away

WITH the advent of a ten club Scottish Premier League we can all look forward to a guaranteed helping of multiple Old Firm meetings and more rancorous spats and more assurances from nearly everybody that the bile between the two clubs is confined to a few extreme element fans, etc.

Not much comment, at the moment, about the two Glasgow clubs wanting to plant their playing (and financial) interests in leagues outwith Scotland.

Around the summit talks following the disorder at their last meeting there was a tangible idea being wafted about that the whole matter had been overblown.

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Along with this impression was that the two clubs are too important to be subject to such wider social attention.

Both Rangers and Celtic constantly raid the meagre larders of the other clubs in Scotland and the "bought off" players are then too often to be seen spectating from the dugouts.

Maybe it is little surprise that Scotland's national Fifa rating is 50th - below Jamaica, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Iran, etc.

Ian Johnstone

Forman Drive

Peterhead