Originally Posted by mavreela:
“Surprise!
Outside the Old Firm and Edinburgh derbies the ratings for the Aviva Premiership and SPL have been pretty similar, with either able to beat the other on any given week.
The Heineken Cup matches featuring top English teams easily beat most Scottish football ones.
Hardly surprising though, the population of England is ten times that of Scotland that it has as many rugby union fans as Scotland has football ones. And most English football fans find the Premier League, Football League, Champions League, Europa League is quite enough.
As mlt11 often cites, the average viewer of football on Sky only watches 30 matches per season. Scottish football is a pretty low priority for the average sports fans outside Scotland.”
“Surprise!
Outside the Old Firm and Edinburgh derbies the ratings for the Aviva Premiership and SPL have been pretty similar, with either able to beat the other on any given week.
The Heineken Cup matches featuring top English teams easily beat most Scottish football ones.
Hardly surprising though, the population of England is ten times that of Scotland that it has as many rugby union fans as Scotland has football ones. And most English football fans find the Premier League, Football League, Champions League, Europa League is quite enough.
As mlt11 often cites, the average viewer of football on Sky only watches 30 matches per season. Scottish football is a pretty low priority for the average sports fans outside Scotland.”
So with the OF and Edinburgh derbies included Scottish Football is more popular than Rugby Union then, which was my point. (Of course the Old Firm derbies can't happen for a minimum of 2 years, and I suspect a maximum of 2 years as well.)




