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Michael Higgins the Boss

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The more cup games, less league games strategy OK now here is an original radical idea for the Scottish league. I know a lot of people will instinctively hate this idea because it is radical and new, but I ask you to open your minds to a new radical strategy to allow us to play new types of teams every year. I hate league football it is boring and repetitive you get stuck playing the same teams every year, not doing anything while some other teams win the league. I would say the same as Aberdeen fan if we were in a British league, as we would find our level and get stuck playing British teams of the same level. My view is league football is boring and monotonous. The same teams playing over and over again, with teams battling it out to avoid failure, or mid table mediocrity. I say the Sme about the Scottish and English Premier. I would like to radically cut the number of league games in the Scottish league and replace them with cross border cups, where home group games are counted as part of the home season ticket attendances. Here is my radical idea STEP ONE Increase the premier to 14 teams, with teams playing home and away. 26 games a year for the league title. This means a cut in the number of games each team I the premier play by 12 games. Freeing up 12 weeks for new cup competitions. STEP TWO A Celtic Cup made up of the 14 Scottish Premier sides, 2 Welsh league sides, and the 4 Irish regions put forward a team each. The Irish regions that have proved so popular with rugby fans would put forward 4 regional representative sides. If this is not possible then 2 Irish league and 2 League of Ireland sides would take part. There would then be 20 teams in 5 groups of 4 group stage trophy. The top sides from each group and the 3 best runner up qualify for a straight knock out cup. STEP THREE An Anglo Scottish cup returns My idea is the 14 Scottish Premier sides and teams from the English League One play in a group stage cross border cup. The group stage then gives way to a straight knock out trophy with an annual final played at Wembley Stadium. Imagine how great it would be a for Scottish sides to play a final at the famous Wembley stadium e very year. My reply to critics of my idea Every year we here people suggesting that the Scottish and English leagues merge, well look if that happened then most Scottish Premier sides of the likes of Inverness, and St Johnstone would be lucky to reach the level of the Tier 5 division the non league Conference, based on the attendances they get. So my idea would be best of both Worlds scenario. Where they get to keep playing in a Scottish Premier have a chance of winning national cups and get to play high standard English league one sides. Some will argue that this will not satisfy the Old Firm, but I disagree an annual final at Wembley stadium would satisfy their desire to achieve something in England without giving up their competitive chances of winning the league, and qualifying for the champions league. I do not want the Scottish and English leagues to merge as my team Aberdeen would never get anywhere and it would render more than 100 years of Scottish football meaningless as the rating of a non league trophy for a league that does not exist anymore. I think there is no ‘Scotland only’ solution to the problems of Scottish football, we need to work together with other leagues, to play bog teams from other countries and to market the Scottish league to new territories, but keep the bread and butter of league football but just have slightly less of it, Some will say there is no point in playing Irish and Welsh sides, but I totally disagree, we have a firm connection with the Celtic nations and this would increase our audiences in the Celtic nations. I have contacted Welsh and Irish clubs and they would love a Celtic Cup. The attendances for Scottish Irish games are big. And Ireland and Wales are beautiful countries that away fans would enjoy visiting. I would love my team Aberdeen to get to play English League One Sides every year and have a realistic chance of playing in a cup final every year. Some will say that 26 games is not enough league games, but that is rubbish, in Portugal they have a 30 game league season. In the first years of the Scottish league they played as few as 22 league games a season, but no one would argue that these league titles are meaningless.