How many to Inverness CT on wet Tuesday night?

[drew]

What is it with the scots. Why would any southern club be interested in a british league cup if you draw any club other than Celtic or Rangers? They are still trying to get their fingers in the Premier league pie and this might be their idea of a backdoor way in??

It'll never happen.

BBC Sport - Scottish Premier League to propose British League Cup

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

The same Scots that are against a British Olympic team? f*** em

 

[GT49er]

It's a bloody good idea! I've been in favour of it for years - so long as it replaces both League Cups and has a European place at the end of it; bring in lower teams in the early rounds - over two legs; Shrewsbuty vs. Arbroath, for instance, would be like a European night for both clubs, plus the added spice of Anglo-Scottish rivalry. Higher level clubs added in later rounds. Could be a winner IMHO

 

[Marc]

Cowdenbeath v Brighton.....YES PLEASE!!!




not that the mighty COOS will ever get in the Prem in Scotland but still....!

 

[drew]

But how can they call it a British cup if they don't include the Welsh and Northern Irish league?

 

[GOM]

But how can they call it a British cup if they don't include the Welsh and Northern Irish league?

The Welsh yes, but, Northern Ireland is not part of Great Britain, although it is part of the British Isles.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

What is it with the British fear of travel? The Milan clubs play Palermo. That's a longer journey than Brighton to Inverness.

 

[Sock]

I fly up to Edinburgh every so often so if we were playing Hibs or Hearts I would catch a plane up there

 

[Simster]

What is it with the British fear of travel? The Milan clubs play Palermo. That's a longer journey than Brighton to Inverness.

You know that is not a fair comparison, and that the real issue is cost. Obviously dropping €3,000+ on travel expenses is not really going to be an issue for a Serie A/Premiership game, but for some noddy cup match between Arbroath and Exeter with 1,000 or less in attendance, I think not.

And anyway, there is literally no team in Scotland I really want see the Albion play.


Edit: yes, maybe a trip to Edinburgh if we were in a quarterfinal with one of the two Edinburgh clubs, but that is about it.

 

[GOM]

What is it with the British fear of travel? The Milan clubs play Palermo. That's a longer journey than Brighton to Inverness.

I don't think it's a fear of travel, just a dislike of the amount of time it takes to travel relatively short distances in this country.

 

[Cian]

But how can they call it a British cup if they don't include the Welsh and Northern Irish league?

The top NI teams already play a cross-border tournament with the top ROI teams.

 

[Sock]

What is it with the British fear of travel? The Milan clubs play Palermo. That's a longer journey than Brighton to Inverness.

I feel sorry for Russian Premier League fans.

When Zenit play Tomsk, it is the equivalent distance of Brighton having to travel to play in Iraq.

 

[TWOCHOICEStom]

I fly up to Edinburgh every so often so if we were playing Hibs or Hearts I would catch a plane up there

 

[Badger]

Do we really want Rangers and Celtic fans anywhere near English grounds?

 

[Lord Bracknell]

I don't think it's a fear of travel, just a dislike of the amount of time it takes to travel relatively short distances in this country.

It's the perception of distance, rather than the actual time it takes to travel. We southeasterners are particularly prone to think a place like Stoke is a long way away. The French, Germans, Spanish and Italians have a much greater understanding of the size of their own countries.

To return to an Italian comparison... How many Brightonians are surprised to discover that Milan is nearer to Brighton than it is to Catania? Yet, four times a year, teams from Milan and Catania play each other in the league. Add in trips to Bari and Palermo and Cagliari and ponder how you'd support your club like you follow the Albion?

 

[Simster]

It's the perception of distance, rather than the actual time it takes to travel. We southeasterners are particularly prone to think a place like Stoke is a long way away. The French, Germans, Spanish and Italians have a much greater understanding of the size of their own countries.

To return to an Italian comparison... How many Brightonians are surprised to discover that Milan is nearer to Brighton than it is to Catania? Yet, four times a year, teams from Milan and Catania play each other in the league. Add in trips to Bari and Palermo and Cagliari and ponder how you'd support your club like you follow the Albion?

This is a ridiculous post. The reason South Easterners in England have a perception that the rest of the country is far away is that journey times are much longer in the South East because of the pressure on space. You can't get from London to Guildford in less than 30 minutes, so the perception is that Newcastle is half a day away, when the reality is that you can do London to Newcastle in just over two hours.

How does your Italian comparison prove that continental Europeans have a greater understanding of the size of their own countries? Most British people wouldn't even know whereabouts in Italy Catania even is. I'm guessing a Milanese person would be surprised to hear that the distance between Plymouth and Inverness wasn't much different from Dover to Milan. And while we're on the subject of ignorance, they don't come more ignorant than the Southern Italians, that's for sure.

 

[Curious Orange]

It's the perception of distance, rather than the actual time it takes to travel. We southeasterners are particularly prone to think a place like Stoke is a long way away.

Having been to Stoke and its surrounding area on many occassions (my sister lives up that way), I can promise you that it is a long way away (200 miles from door to door).

 

[Vicar!]

It would be excellent, new grounds, new places. I am in.

 

[Barrel of Fun]

BBC News - Parcel bombs sent to Neil Lennon, Paul McBride and MSP

It's not going to happen with stuff like this going on.