Scottish football is brilliant!

I'm assuming most of you feel the same, that you're well aware that it isn't overflowing with technical brilliance or s3xy superstars, but that it is fun, that it is, despite our general shiiiteyness at it, our national sport and despite the many ups and downs, we love it, always have done and always will.

Have a wee read, not a long article but I thought it worth a share.

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2018/mar/13/scottish-football-brilliance-celtic-psg-rangers-scotland

"What if this obsession had nothing to do with being a Scotsman torn from his roots? What if it was to do with the raw and rugged brilliance of Scottish football itself? This is a very unfashionable view in 2018, especially among the cognoscenti, who seldom mention Scottish football except when they want to road test a new form of contempt.

The standard of play is crap so why bother? Fair enough, I suppose, although I could make a case for Rodgers’ team being a very decent outfit on their best days. But having watched PSG score 12 goals past Celtic this season, I will leave that to one side and ask another question: what is football all about? What should it be about? What was it about when it was at its best? The answer to none of these questions is PSG. Or the tourist-filled stands at Barcelona. Or the English Premier League.

The answer is Celtic (insert your own Scottish team here). It is about roots. Not national roots, but football roots. It is about something real, something that connects us to our past and, we hope, our future. Sure, the football isn’t perfect, but the problem with perfection is that there is nowhere else to go except down. There is beauty and hope in imperfection.

It’s nothing to do with clinging on to Scotland. It is about clinging on to football. I listen to people dismissing Scottish football and I imagine them in 15 years time, puzzling over how it is the World Soccer Super League isn’t all it was cracked up to be. They’ll be like those muppets who threw out their 7-inch punk singles and rushed out to buy CDs, trying to recapture a past they were far too quick to abandon. Well, not me. No way."