Scottish Premier League: Motherwell

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Motherwell football club was formed in 1886. Motherwell is between Glasgow and Edinburgh. An industrial town with many working class fans. A period of time similar to the Cincinnati Reds of Major League baseball. Their best season so far was the 1926-1927 squad and for the following seven seasons they remained in the top three, winning the league title in 1932 for the very first time. Motherwell's first major Cup success came in 1950 by winning the League Cup, being Hibs 3-0 in the Final. The Scottish Cup jinx was finally laid to rest two years later when 136,274 fans saw Motherwell beat Dundee 4-0 at Hampden to lift the Cup for the first time.
In recent times, Motherwell won the Scotish Cup in 1991.
On December 29, 2007, their team captain, Neil O'Donnell died on the pitch. Click on the picture of him to get more information.

Scottish Premier League: Falkirk

Falkirk practices at Stirling University so there is a bit of a bond to the club. However, Falkirk is not a very good team. Click on the picture and you will go directly to their site. I wish I could put up more pictures but the team sells the pictures at quite a substantial amount. I guess capitalism meets mediocrity. If they won a few championships maybe I could see paying $30 a picture. Falkirk right now is in the middle of the table, which is pretty good and it is astonishing that Hearts has fallen to almost the bottom. Celtic and Rangers keep their dominance going.

Scottish Premier League: Hearts

Scottish football is important in Scotland. However, two teams dominate the SPL and that limits the quality of the other teams. Rangers and Celtic are consistently the two teams that fight for the championship every year. Celtic are like the New York Yankees of Scotland. Rangers can be seen as the Red Sox, however the Rangers have won many championships throughout the years.

The Scots aren't upset about the disparity. However, some teams are consistently on the cusp of breaking the tradition. Hearts is a team out of Edinburgh. When I was in Scotland they had a quite the row (a favorite phrase in Scotland and England is the term "row", pronounced "rou".) The row was over management and the team captain. The captain was benched and the season went into the toilet. Much dismay followed.

The gold standard in soccer, and I may be biased, is the English Premier League. Even Scots seem to watch more EPL than SPL...probably because you can't see any SPL games for free. You need to purchase a satellite deal with SKY sports to watch any matches. The pubs are full of people on saturdays to watch the matches because of this and other reasons. We watch football on Sunday, they watch football on Saturday. And Tuesday nights as well. Click on the picture and learn more about Hearts.

Scottish Premier League

Scottish Premier League