Scottish Football Thread

A Scottish Football League source has revealed that the body rejected proposals from the Scottish Premier League and Scottish Football Association to strip Rangers of titles this summer because the proposal came before the club had been found guilty following allegations of using dual contracts to pay players under the previous owners.

RANGERS have moved UP three places on the list of average European club league attendances despite dropping from the SPL to the Third Division over the summer.

The Light Blues have soared into 16th position from last season’s 19th spot thanks to their average of 46,738 for games so far with East Stirlingshire, Elgin and Montrose.

Gers’ total is better than their city rivals Celtic’s average of 45,064 and they had more than 4,000 more fans at Ibrox at the weekend than there were at Parkhead.

They also had the third-highest crowd in British football behind Newcastle’s for their game with Norwich City and the meeting of Manchester City and Arsenal.

When Neil Lennon’s side unfurled the championship flag against Aberdeen last month, there were 48,521 people in attendance.

But when Rangers played their first Ibrox SFL fixture of the campaign a fortnight later, they attracted 49,118 people with seats in home areas officially sold out.

In turn, the phenomenal Light Blues followers smashed the world record for a fourth-tier league match by more than 10,000.

The current average league attendance at Gers is actually an improvement on last term’s overall figure of 46,324.

And it eclipses figures at the likes of reigning English Premiership champions City and megabucks French outfit Paris St Germain.

It is no great surprise that big-name European sides Borussia Dortmund, Barcelona, Manchester United, Bayern Munich and Real Madrid make up the top five.

But the fact Gers are comfortably in the leading 20 clubs will raise an eyebrow or two – although manager Ally McCoist is far from surprised.

He said: “The crowd at the weekend really was staggering. When the big game was on in England, I heard the commentators saying our crowd was one of the biggest in the UK.

“To get that for an SFL3 game between Rangers and Montrose was fantastic and as I keep saying, our supporters are unbelievable.”

Since season tickets went on sale to supporters last month, around 36,000 of them have been sold making Gers one of the best-supported clubs in Britain.

Glasgow is the third most populous city in the United Kingdom. Er, well done on getting fans in to watch football.

Remember how Rangers leaving the SPL would have no effect on Celtic and how we would struggle to get 20,000 in Ibrox?

I'm sure the lower price tickets has a lot to do with Rangers' attendances tbf

3rd division franchise knock SPL leaders out of cup. Surely one of the shocks of the century?

So... what effect is it having on Celtic may I ask?

The domestic attendance is likely to drop for them considering last year they didn't play at home in any of the cups, im sure the poor attendance at last nights game will be more than made up by three 60000 sell outs at Porkheid.

League attendance is only down 5000.

Only in Scotland do you get 'abused' for going to games and not going.

So... what effect is it having on Celtic may I ask?