Scottish Football For All

The scenes above could be a thing of the past for many Scottish fans after the Scottish Football Association announced a £60 million pound deal with Sky that will see no Scottish national team games on free TV till 2014.

The magical results over France were all part of a brilliant campaign that restored pride in football in this country and it's a terrible shame that many will miss out on future such results.

The SFA say that the money will be used to develop young players but most are livid with the deal that cuts out Scots unable to afford Sky Sports.

ITV paid mega bucks for England's games but the BBC has decided that F1 is more important and worth £200 million.

The 700,000 Sky Sports subscribers in Scotland is a minority in a population of five million and I'm very disappointed in the SFA's decision.

It's not all bad news in Scotland though.

Scotland remain 16th in the new FIFA world rankings and that is definitely something for the country to be proud of and I, for one, can't wait for the World Cup campaign.

Even if I do have to walk to the pub to watch it!

Elsewhere in the news has been many peoples attempts to put down the Old Firm (Rangers and Celtic) as clubs that simply aren't that big.

Well 110,000 fans to fill the two stadiums in a city of little over half a million people is proof of their size in my eyes. They are huge clubs with world wide fan bases.

Plain and simple.

Other comments have included how poorly they would perform in the English Premier League. Another unjustified attack on Scottish football.

Put Rangers and Celtic in England with the money that all English clubs are earning and you'd have a total transformation.

The two Glasgow sides have more scope to make money in such situations than 90 percent of the EPL and both clubs would grow overnight if such a situation arose.

To look and make predictions based on the current squads is subjective at best.

We'd be able to attract the best in the world!

Finally I'd like to thank the SFA for finally paying our match officials in line with other small European leagues.

To think officials in Norway were earning more was embarrassing to say the least.

The Scottish season kicks off this weekend and don't be shy to take a look.

I promise every team plays better football than Rangers and I'm a true blue!