At the moment, the Also Rans in the Scottish Premiership are seen as mere sacrificial lambs, made available to allow Celtic and Rangers to warm up for all-important Old Firm confrontations and European competition.
This will be the 37th successive season where the name Celtic or Rangers has appeared at the top of the league at the end of the season.
Previously, Scottish Football Matters has suggested that Celtic and Rangers should pay £20 million per season for their membership of the Premiership, with the majority of the extra money going to the remaining clubs in the division AKA the Also Rans.
Here is an alternative suggestion.
Those clubs which qualification for the Champions League ( Group Stage or Qualification) should be excluded that season from receiving a share of monies the SPFL raises as a result of domestic activities, including domestic tv rights.
So, essentially, no domestic money for the clubs finishing 1st or 2nd in the Premiership, assuming two clubs earn entry into any phase of the Champions League.
The funds freed up in this way would be distributed to the remaining clubs in the Premiership.
This change would substantially strengthen the financial position of potential challengers to the Celtic/Rangers duopoly.
Scotland needs new Champions.
37 seasons of sorrow and boredom must end.
Starting in season 22/23.
Time for Change.
— Read on www.heraldscotland.com/sport/19782115.aberdeen-chairman-reveals-deloitte-review-spfl-will-show-tv-revenue-can-doubled-next-five-years/
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