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Originally Posted by Gooner
Participant-wise footy is the biggest, but attendance-wise it's ice hockey.
Other than hockey, we seem to do OK in F1, rally, strongman competitions and javelin... aaaaand that's about it.
Jari Litmanen is the greatest so far surely. He's won the Champs League (and been the top scorer), and was voted third best in the world (behind Rivaldo and someone else).
Would love it, if we made it to the next Euro with the Mighty Mullet(we've never had as good a chance as now). We've NEVER been to a Euro or World Cup, can you believe that. Whereas Sweden gets there every time.
Our most "famous" players at the mo' would be Niemi, Jaaskelainen, Hyypia, Tainio, Vayrynen and Forssell. A decent starting line-up,not much talent behind it.
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i feel your pain, half of the scotland team are playing in the premiership in england and scotland.
fletcher, mcfadden, naismith, weir, webster, dickov, teale and mcculloch all play in englands top division.
players like caldwell, maloney, boyd, burke, mcmanus, riordan, ferguson and wilson all play with scotlands top 2 teams.
we have been in euro championships and world cups but have never got through the group stages.
football in scotland is IMPROVING tho, the national team is top of the group with italy and france in it, beating france a few months ago.
Celtic have just qualified for the last 16 in the champions league a massive achivement for a team costing ~£17million, we got to the uefa cup final a few years ago to and lost to a cheating porto.
rangers have qualified through the group stages of the UEFA cup and got through to the last 16 in the CL a few years ago to.
Celtic won the european cup in 1967 so woul dbe great for celtic and scottish football if we could do something similar.
i think alot of people south of the border dont give scottish football the credit it deserves or any respect.
hopefully that will change as i belive if celtic were in the english premiership we would be top 5 in our first few seasons and after the financial benefits come into it celtic would seriously contend for the title.