[HerefordBull]

Unfortunately many fans who used to get their football "fix" by supporting their local club now watch and support the best teams in Europe via Sky Sports or BT sport . Following on, their kids do the same.........I often see adults and their kids wearing EPL tops and not their local towns shirts up here.

When I drove up to Edinburgh the other week having watched Liverpool at Anfield the services was full of Scots driving back up to Scotland having also been down to the game so all that money that should be going to local Scottish sides is being pumped into the EPL. These fans watch on Sky and see some of the best players in the World playing for these sides in League and Europe and so opt to support them rather than , what they consider, an inferior and dross product in Scotland. The views are probably correct but they miss the point of supporting a local side through thick and thin.

Just because the quality isn't the same doesn't mean to say the excitement is not there......on Saturday the finish of the Hibs game was as exciting as any you are likely to see with every emotion being felt from disappointment, anger through to final elation when Boyle scored. At Liverpool they also scored late on to equalise but it wasn't half as good as they weren't down to 9 men and their goal took a lucky deflection    as opposed to Boyles which was superbly worked with a great flick from Anier.