Scottish football continues its long slow slide to oblivion.
The new master plan is to copy a league setup that came close to killing the game in Austria and Switzerland a few years back with splits all over the place, points and goals being reset and a general feeling of making things up as they go along.
http://sport.stv.tv/football/clubs/a...-within-weeks/
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The plan is to implement a top flight "Premiership" of 12 clubs, a 12-club "Championship" beneath and a third tier "National League" of 18 clubs.
After two rounds of games, the top two tiers would split into three sub-leagues of eight teams. The top eight would contest the league title and European places with the middle eight settling promotion and relegation.
That middle league of eight, made up of SPL1's bottom four teams and SPL2's top four, would see their points reset. They would then play 14 matches, facing each other both home and away, with the four highest placed sides at the end of the campaign playing in the subsequent season's top division.
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Happily for certain sections of Scottish football it means Rangers would have gone through this season in the lowest league to still be in the lowest league next year.
I suppose just having a setup where teams play each other home and away a set number of times each year with the lowest two teams dropping a division to be replaced by the top two in the division below (even if 2nd and 2nd bottom have a playoff) would be too radical for the halfwits running the game up here.