BBC - Figures, facts and stats about Scottish football.

[ian1964 10,514]

11 surprising facts that show how Scottish football has changed over the last 30 years

 

 

1- The 1987 Scottish Cup Final, when St Mirren beat Dundee United, was the last time when all of the players, managers and officials were born in Scotland.

 

2-The league match between Celtic and Rangers on 04 October 2003 featured only one Scottish player in the two starting line-ups: Jackie McNamara. Maurice Ross came on as a substitute for Rangers. Celtic won 1-0.

 

3-In 1986, as the Scotland national team was heading to the World Cup in Mexico, 97% of the players playing in the top Scottish league were born in Scotland. At the start of the 2015/16 season, only 53% of the top league players were born in Scotland.

 

4-At the start of the 2015/16 season, Ross County, St Johnstone and Dundee had the most Scots-born players in their teams, with 73% each. Inverness Caledonian Thistle had the lowest number of Scots-born players at 7%. The majority of Caley’s squad were born in England.

 

5-Of all the players who started in the first match of the 2015/16 Scottish Premiership season, 77% were born in the United Kingdom and 35% were born in England.

 

6-During the Scottish Premier League era from 1998-2013, four clubs survived administration: Livingston, Hearts, Dunfermline and Dundee (twice). Two clubs were liquidated: Gretna and Rangers.

 

7-According to the SPFL, more people per head of the population attend football matches in Scotland than any other country in Europe.

 

8-Only two Scottish players have won the Champions League: Paul Lambert and Darren Fletcher.

 

9-The last club to win Scotland’s top-flight league title – other than Celtic or Rangers – was Aberdeen in 1985, over 31 years ago.

 

10-Scotland have not qualified for a major international tournament since 1998 — the same year that the two pound coin was first issued, DVDs became available in the UK and Britain last hosted the Eurovision Song Contest. (Bonus Eurovision video: Imaani performs Where Are You?)

 

11-Theo Snelders was the first non-Scot to win the PFA Scotland player of the year award in 1989 while at Aberdeen. In the 27 years since his win, only 10 Scots have won the award, and only two non-Old Firm players have won it.

 

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[der Berliner 3,365]

They are just sick over there, can't help it and the club should act accordingly.

[der Berliner 3,365]

The BBC is regarded world-wide as an institution of the highest standard. If someone outside Britain looks for info, they probably switch to google and will take anything that pops up with the name BBC on it as fact. (Something the sick folk at BBC Scotland full well know.)

 

If something like the above appears, people with much less insight into the matter take it for granted. Thus, the club was liquidated, started anew, was refounded etc.. When half-truths become fact. We have seen a few Rangers games this season over here in Germany by a German company and their reporters gave all sorts of utter rubbish to the audience, starting with insolvency figures of 164m and whatnot. Where do we think their get their info from?

 

Articles like these and other half-truths and downright lies besmirch the name and standing of our club all over the world. It should be acted upon, by club and support.

[26th of foot 5,904]

If you are accurate, you will be objective ................................ something I remember from Objective Appreciation exercises.

 

I note no mention of both Motherwell and Airdrie/Clydebank in that deliberate attempt at another wind up aimed at Rangers by Pacific Quay CSC.

 

Maybe, it's today's Herald front page reference Dodgy Des' and a money laundering bank that demands an attention seeking, interference running piece?

[Scott7 5,397]

Not much can be done about it. It's subjective as to whether liquidations are a more interesting statistic than, say, the number of goals acored by non-Scottish players.

 

The problem is how to get Rangers-minded folk out of wealth creation and proper working jobs and into the easy, creative professions. Not that working at PQ is creative in the true sense.

[cooponthewing 1,139]

The club was Not liquidated, the business was. You can't liquidate a football club as its a separate entity alongside the business. A club can disband for example.

The club should take them to task over this. That's all they understand. Let's hope none of that lot ever set foot in Ibrox again.

[ian1964 10,514]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/complaints/complain-online/

[compo 6,328]

Fact 9 was interesting maybe we should run the premiership in a handicap basis ,them from the east would start at minus 11 rangers minus 10 and so on

[RANGERRAB 3,358]

The club was Not liquidated, the business was. You can't liquidate a football club as its a separate entity alongside the business. A club can disband for example.

The club should take them to task over this. That's all they understand. Let's hope none of that lot ever set foot in Ibrox again.

 

The SPFL & UEFA websites clearly recognise that Rangers history dates from 1872 to present day. That is all that matters.

[der Berliner 3,365]

The SPFL & UEFA websites clearly recognise that Rangers history dates from 1872 to present day. That is all that matters.

 

Yep, but why do people of the BBC, paid with your money, tell half-truths (if not downright lies) to the public? DESPITE being already reprimanded by their own controlling institution?

Edited August 20, 2016 by der Berliner