World of Sport - Scottish football in debt crisis

With Dundee FC the latest casualty in the debt crisis in Scottish football, auditors warn that it is only a matter of time before Scotland’s national game is driven to extinction.
Sam Briggs of auditing specialists Sportswatch UK claims that within five years the Scottish Premier League will consist of only one full-time team and three others made up of amalgamated clubs using part- time players and ex-pros.

Says Briggs, “Far from seeing the Old Firm head south to play in the English Premiership, we are more likely to see Scots football clubs en masse heading south to hang about outside London tube stations asking for money and growling at anyone in a suit.”

The financial crisis is at odds with the perception among pundits and football writers that recent slight improvements in the national team’s performances bode well for the Scottish game as a whole. With Motherwell and Dundee, Hearts, Livingston and Rangers struggling with millions of pounds of debt, one wonders where exactly it is that Scottish football is getting better. Quipped Oban man David Hamilton, “It’s certainly not in the last third.”

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