That low hanging fruit comment was gold 😂

He thinks he’s Rod Stewart. He probably uses a forecourt to turn around!

Rod Stewart is confusing. His father was scottish and supported Hibs. Rod himself was born in North London and see him self as English. He supported Arsenal as a boy. Now his english team is Man United. After a gig in Scotland he met Jock Stein + some Celtic players. Then he became Celtic mad. Oh and he supports Scotland national team..

‘Attack the argument not the person’ he says after slagging off the person

Brendan Roger’s - 2 5th place finishes and an Fa cup with Leicester. But according to Simon he didn’t do very well

Scottish Football needs people like Simon to get rid of the rabble who run that league

First big offer comes in for Rogers and he'll be away again.

Two 5th places with Leicester and an FA Cup win is not a failure

the sevco cycle. Win the pre-season friendly championship, declare their back, lose the derby, sack manager, hire new manage, new manager bounce, we are back, lose derby again, lose league, we are not far behind....repeat

Correction. The old Rangers have 54 titles. Sevco have 1.

As a rangers fan i agree with simon, the standard of football in the spl is only getting worse.

Rod was an Arsenal fan growing up then bumped into Jock Stein at some bash and started supporting Celtic! Just for kicks he's a Man United fan aswell. Thats drugs for ya!

Anyone who cannot see that the Scottish domestic game is well and truly broken, is truly sticking their head on the sand.

Whose fault was it that rangers wasint in the league their own

Rod Stewart is English.

Rod Stewart , English born and bred living off his Scottish parentage! It’s never been your country Rod!

Oh go away Rodney

Exactly, Jordan is the only one allowed make OFFENSIVE Comments.

Simon is absolute gold here with the Stewart comments😂. Get this guy on a five year deal with TalkSPORT.

If you like *Rod Stewart* , look up that video of him *coming out of a bathroom stall with a little boy* , and have a serious rethink.

Sir rod should just take Simon “ sailing” And forget about it.

This conversation is exactly the problem, what about the other teams? Celtic, rangers, Celtic, rangers, Celtic, rangers... It's just always about those 2. There's a lot of teams in Scotland and if things were more balanced you would get more eyes on it but the media just won't get over their hard on for the old firm.

Rod Stewart is from an area in Scotland known as Highgate, North London.

No Englishman has won the EPl 🤭

look when you watch a league 2 game its like a scottish premier game

Maybe Souness should consider setting up a tax avoidance scheme to pay players 😂

Coming from London I am surprised Rod is not a Man U supporter!

Simons got a twinge in his pants merely at the fact rod knows who he is.

Low hanging fruit under Rod’s kilt… These gems are what I listen to TS for 😂

This conversation could go on ad infinitum hahaha....

Love Simon. People can’t handle the truth. Which he talks.

Aye, they're players don't get 'crippled' everytime they take to the park. Rod Stewart is an idiot!

1984 was the last time someone other than Rangers and Celtic won the title - come on lets not call it a league, its just 2 teams battling over a position to get into the Champions league to then get embarrassed and knocked out

Completely with Simon on this one, Rod should stick to what he's good at.

Sir Simon = Top LAD Proper Clobber 💯 Facts

Jim spews out some utter shite.

I can't stand Rod Stewart!

Rod is half Scottish but loves the people the scenery and the feeling of belonging, he’s treated as one of our own and we love him for him , live long and respect from a gers fan

Rod was never the same after he failed an audition with Deep Purple years ago.

Well said Simon and I’m a Rangers Fan

Why is Scotland the only small country whose league gets rinsed? With every other small country people understand that it's too small to have a top league, so why is Scotland any different? Are people seriously saying Scottish football is bad compared to Ireland, Finland or Slovakia? Believe me, it isn't.

This is the same Simon Jordan who thinks the Bundesliga is a farmers league Dortmund in the champions leagues and Leverkusen europa league final an😢 still unbeaten in the league

Simon Jordan is becoming a national treasure I love people who say what they think and still retain a sense of humour.

11:52 also Simon, all stadiums full every week

Up until today I had never heard of Jordan Who! Now I know why!

SJ isn’t wrong, I went to a Hibs v Dundee game earlier this season, was piss poor. Good point about the players being produced, compared to days gone by, sign of the times.

The applicable phrase "low hanging fruit" will never be the same again 😂😂😂

As for money, Have celtic paid those poor victims yet? 🤷🏻‍♂️

Rod Hull 🤣

Lewis ferguson just got an award for the best midfielder in Italy, also the best centre back in recent times VVD and best left back Andy Robertson both came out of scotland. McGinn is soon to be a top 4 player in the EPL, and I think the capita we have better attendance records than England?

Scotland's biggest problem is being neighbours to England. If they bordered Finland or Denmark they wouldn't have an inferiority complex but they are constantly measuring themselves against a far bigger country. The Scottish league will never be a major European league. How can it be? The third biggest club in Scotland is Aberdeen (or Hibs or Hearts depending who you ask.) These are small clubs. They're about the same size as Bradford City and Blackpool. You will never sell this to a global audience. it gets dramatically worse after those 3 clubs because we then plummet to the likes of Motherwell, Kilmarnock and Ross County. It'll take the greatest genius in mankind's history to sell those clubs to a global audience.

Brendan doesn't hide his arrogance as well as other managers.

Notice that "Bodgers" no longer uses the word "Character" in his post match conversations, hats off to the fella, he's finally realised he doesn't really understand what it means.

Left a four horse race to manage in a two horse race......how is that brave?

Its 3rd class players on 1st class wages. 1 scottish player in the old firm game. If that doesnt say sack the coaches and start again.

These days sir Rod looks like his own half melted Madame tussauds exhibit.

The two largest clubs can't even put fans in their stadiums" That the problem right there Zimom, you just said something that is not true

"Silly, go away Rod" 😂

Every country has it's one or two teams that dominate. Every country. Sick hearing how Scotland is a two team league. So is Spain, Holland, Germany Portugal they are all the same.

Simon is right the SPL is a pile of s**t, but fair play to the fans who enjoy watching their teams play in it.

Bloody pub league, & bloody sir Knob stewart is bloody English 😂😂😂

Simon, if you want Scottish football to be better, buy one of the other clubs. Put your money where your mouth is. Elevate the standard if you can.

Celtic 54 rangers 55 that’s 109 years? And it’s not a Micky mouse league?

It is always an accomplishment to win the league. In terms of winning 12 out of 13, we should bear in mind, they have received 13 years of Champions League money. Makes a difference in the transfer market

the fact rangers and celtic want too leave the spl too come in england shows they dont give a tosh about the state of the league

It's an ostrich that buries its head iin the sand, not an emu. There, I have attacked the substance not the person!

Celtic & Rangers fans always bang on about if they had the EPL money they'd be competing within 5 years. Man Utd the biggest club in the UK by far haven't been competitive for 10 years, 3rd biggest club Arsenal haven't won the title for 20 years, it took European giants Liverpool 20 years to win the title again and big clubs like Leeds, Villa, Newcastle, Everton and West ham haven't been close for decades. So why the hell would two clubs from scotland who have only won silverware because they have 100 times the spending power of their rivals be challenging on an equal playing field?

Truth is i'd rather watch a Celtic Rangers match than any of the soulless corporate dross that England serves up. I couldn't care less about English football..i used to enjoy it but it's become so plastic. Celtic and Rangers is pure theatre, the noise, the passion, the intensity. There's nothing in England to compare to that. They've also ben to three Euro finals between in the last 21 years .

You could argue that the English premier league is just as boring nowadays since its inception in 1992 only 7 different teams have won it Blackburn Leicester and Liverpool 1 each Arsenal 3 Chelsea 5 Manchester City 7 and Manchester United 13 . To me that doesn’t seem that different to Scottish premier with fewer teams and a lot less revenue in the Scottish game

More money needs to be pump into the SPL. For example there should be enough money that the old firm can spend £100m each in the summer transfer. The rest Should be able to spend £70m to £80m during the summer transfer period. A TV deal like this should be signed for 6 years & if that goes well sign other deal which is bigger after that 6 years.

Simon doesn't often make me laugh but 3 or 4 times here he had me howling.

If Celtic and Rangers had any sense they’d have joined English football long ago. The gap is only getting bigger. Soon they’ll be like National league outfits

Hypocrite Stewart.

Who the f... is Simon Jordan?

SFA should engage Simon as an ambassador - the only viable solution for Scottish football is for Celtic and Rangers to get into the English leagues

Wee rod supported arsenal as a kid ,so thats your team ,

Simon is bang on there are only 2 teams in Scottish PL who'd both struggle in League 1 FACT.....

Scottish football has the highest match attendance per capita in European football this season. Statistics from Transfermarkt show the SPFL had 21.3 attendees per 1,000 people at matches across its top four divisions, and a weekly average support of 117,700 fans. That is well clear of the Netherlands in second place, which 12.9 attendees per 1000 people. England and Wales sit fifth in the survey with 11.4 attendees per 1000.

If it wasn't for Scottish managers and players English teams wouldn't have had half the success they have had

WOW ..... Celtic won the SPL! What an accomplishment.

rod stewarts opinion nowadays is as important like the SPL to world football ... noone give a f....

Reality is not an obstacle. The collective salt off Simon’s comment 😂😂

Celtic have a lot of money now to entise more boys Brendan 😳

The temptation slag off Scottish football is irresistible for Talk Sport - It was always the case that the best Scottish footballers had to come to English top league to raise their game - The Scottish national team has improved in recent years and will take part in the upcoming Euro Finals in Germany - Unfortunately their first game is against Germany however let's not be too hard on Scottish football for it's doing alright without the riches of the Premier League in England.

Very difficult for the other clubs to compete with the old firm, just the reality of the situation i dont think theres much that can be done to change it I'm afraid. Talking about tv deals,.... did Burnley, Sheffield United and Luton not get significant TV money this season and look how they've done. TV deals aint gonna make much difference I'm afraid.

Would love Rangers and Celtic in the Prem. It would add to the league massively.

rangers were not in the league for cheating get it right

Simon bang in here, rods lost his mind

Whilst I agree with most of the points Simon makes re the SPL, his comment re attendace at Ibrox and Celtic park is garbage! Both stadiums are full or nearly full for every match regardless of the opposition with average crowds of circa 50k & 60k which eclipses most of the EPL teams!

You only see Rod Stewart at the Rangers v Celtic games never the Ross County, Kilmarnock, Dundee v Celtic matches i wonder why.

Rod actually VALIDATES Simon's point - twice! He says that the top two would take a few years to get out of England's second tier. He also fails to recognise that, beyond those two, there is no quality in the Scottish game. If he thought otherwise, he'd have added Aberdeen, Kilmarnock, or whoever, into that equation of how Scottish clubs would fare in the English league

Fun fact. In the late 1980s, the Scottish league got as high as 5th in the UEFA coefficients. Alright, English clubs were banned at the time. That’s pretty impressive. And shows what Scottish football could be capable of. Clubs like Aberdeen, Hearts, Hibs, and Dundee Utd would be capable of challenging the Old Firm, with some investment. Everyone waxes lyrical about Ryan Reynolds about Wrexham. But Wrexham will hit a glass ceiling should they get up to the Championship. But Scottish clubs are cheaper to buy. And to win the Scottish title, at a club outside the Old Firm, doesn’t need that much money. It would cost an investor less to achieve this. than to get someone like Wrexham up to the Premier League from the lower English leagues. Plus you have easier access to European competition. The TV money is low at present, but raise the profile of the league, and that will sort itself out. It will always be in the shadow of the league down south, because they have ten times the population. Even if the big money left English football, it will still have massive advantages. That said, Scottish football is not as destined to perennial mediocrity, as some make out. It still occasionally shows it can punch above its weight. And with the current state of politics out in Eastern Europe, football isn’t the priority in these countries, leaving secondary West European leagues to fill the void.

Brendan Rogers is a very good manager and I think he is more than capable of managing a big club in the premiership.

It's Ostrich not Emu, Simon. Learn the difference

How can anyone be 'brave' managing Celtic or Rangers? They have won 40 straight SPL's The SPL is a joke

You forget that 30 years of ridiculous investment has caused England to win precisely what Scotland has won.

It has to be the most boring league in Europe. Playing each other four times a season is bad enough but only have two clubs ever involved in winning it over the last few decades is depressing. If I were Scottish I’d be trying to claim asylum in England, hiding under a lorry at Berwick or whatever, maybe take a small boat from Aberdeen and get in that way? I wonder if one day we’ll see another club winning the SPL? There’s always hope I guess eh. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

you forget the population is small and rangers and celtic have the most support

Simon, I think you should go up to Scotland and re build the leagues on an EPl model. You have the business savvy and it could be a lasting legacy

Jim White talking utter rubbish