Scottish Football 2011-2012 Season
I kind of understand the dislike of Rangers and Celtic and I accept that when times get tough a percentage of those who attend matches just now will go play golf or watch Sky. At the same time both clubs have a large core who will watch them no matter who they are playing or where they are playing. I've attended reserve matches with well over 20,000 there, now I don't think for a minute you can expect that but a couple thousand won't be ridiculous particularly if the 'big' team isn't playing at the same time.
Most of us do live in Scotland and most of us are actually football fans. I've been to St Mirren, Thistle, Petershill and Yoker in the last few seasons just to watch a game of football and I don't consider myself a die-hard, my days of not missing a match all season are well behind me. The current issue of WSC has an article from one of the biggest Rangers fans I know. He's visited every senior ground in Scotland. We've a lot of guys like him, football matters way too much to them. If our 'reserves' have a meaningful game and the first team doesn't he'll go, no question.
Add to that the locals who actually support Rangers or Celtic and it will probably be the biggest crowd of the season for most of that division.
I kind of understand the dislike of Rangers and Celtic and I accept that when times get tough a percentage of those who attend matches just now will go play golf or watch Sky. At the same time both clubs have a large core who will watch them no matter who they are playing or where they are playing. I've attended reserve matches with well over 20,000 there, now I don't think for a minute you can expect that but a couple thousand won't be ridiculous particularly if the 'big' team isn't playing at the same time.
Most of us do live in Scotland and most of us are actually football fans. I've been to St Mirren, Thistle, Petershill and Yoker in the last few seasons just to watch a game of football and I don't consider myself a die-hard, my days of not missing a match all season are well behind me. The current issue of WSC has an article from one of the biggest Rangers fans I know. He's visited every senior ground in Scotland. We've a lot of guys like him, football matters way too much to them. If our 'reserves' have a meaningful game and the first team doesn't he'll go, no question.
Add to that the locals who actually support Rangers or Celtic and it will probably be the biggest crowd of the season for most of that division.
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