ANDY Murray said last night that he wasn't qualified to offer an opinion on some of the deeper-rooted issues afflicting Scottish football but predicted that the sport in the country is set to pick up again now Rangers are back in the Ladbrokes Premiership.
The 29-year-old from Dunblane, who has risen to World No 1 in tennis, had options in football as a teenager as well, being offered a trial with the Ibrox club.
While his brother Jamie and dad Willie attended last Friday's 3-0 defeat to England at Wembley, Andy wisely stayed at home with his family. The Hibs fan feels the financial problems which afflicted Rangers didn't help the sport in this country.
"I have no idea because I don't know what any of them have done when they are young," said the World No 1.
"I don't know what sort of training and stuff they do. So it is difficult for me to say. But I think obviously the level of Scottish football has probably gone down a little bit when everything happened with Rangers, I don't think that helped, so hopefully in the next few years now that they are back in the main league that will help get a bit more interest in it again."
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