CROSS-border leagues and the prospect of the Old Firm one day playing in England: a new year begins with the oldest of old chestnuts.
CROSS-border leagues and the prospect of the Old Firm one day playing in England: a new year begins with the oldest of old chestnuts.
Standard Liege and Anderlecht could yet play in a mooted Belgian-Dutch league. Picture: Getty Images
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Michael Grant
There hasn't been a dead horse in history flogged as mercilessly as the idea of Celtic and Rangers playing in the Barclays Premier League, but once again the notion has been gaining momentum.
There have been rumblings that UEFA has “softened” its opposition to clubs from one country playing league football against those from another. To say that Celtic and Rangers have their antennae up to any movement would be putting it mildly. Their frustration and feelings of isolation are profound and understandable – what riches they would enjoy if they were admitted to the English top flight – but desperation and realism have been mutually exclusive for years. UEFA’s previously entrenched position on “supranational” championships has morphed over the past few months. What does not necessarily follow, though, is that this takes the Old Firm any closer to what they want.
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