Celtic's Aiden McGeady - the only Scottish-born player in the SPL who could cut it in England

Whatever anyone thinking about replying to this bilge does, do not respond. It is an easy thing to do in order to get your hit-rate up - attack a minority who are known to be defensive, and if you can shoehorn a well known football club into the debate, your job's half-done. Truly dreadful, no-brained article posted purely to be provocative and to generate reponses. Typical of this entire, pathetic site. Made-up on the spot transfer rumours aside, there is nothing of substance to this place at all.

You just have responded silly. Why dont you just not read it Alan? What defensive football club are you on about? Do you mean defensive in the formation they play? Or the fans who get upset at people slagging them off?

Shaun Maloney was born in Malaysia.

I reckon scott brown, kevin thompson, paul hartley and barry robson are all good enough to play at mid-level English sides like villa, everton or blackburn

THe EPL is doing a great job for other national teams. Unfortunately British mentality is such that if you're foreign you must be good, which is why the EPL is full of highly paid mediocre Johnny foreigners, most of whom would not get a game for the top 2 or 3 Scottish clubs. There are some smashing players for the bigger clubs, no doubt about it but all said and done it's a league of maybe 3 teams who can top the division and will be for years to come.... One of the most disturbing things about the EPL is that it seems content to be bought our and foreign owned, so in the next decade I dont think there will be much owned by Brits. So Johnny Foreigner will not only be welcomed to come play on exorbitant wages but they will own the teams and effectively the league..

i've supported you when you've been attacked in the past gerry but this takes the piss. we don't need to look for detractors of the scottish game and for one of our own to write such an article devoid of balance and neglecting the factors which make up the full picture(commercialism, social mobility, cheap plentyfull entertainment and not least increased professionalism in training and diet) is shamefull. you've gone down in my estimation gerry mate

your national team will dissapear in six years time mate as not enough young english talent is good enough to cut it in your epl.

Gerry, what a load of mince you talk. You talk about Darren finding a club his level...yet he has started 138 games for Man U and came on as a sub in another 47...in 5 seasons. Man U have brought in some quality MF players, and that (along with injury) has limited him this season. You talk about Hutton being "found out", but less face it, the boy has gone to Spurs and has been excellent. Maloney was never going to be a success for Villa, as he is not the type of player MON strives to have in his 1st team. He is neither big enough or strong enough for him. He was always going to be a bit player and should have known better. Scotland has some quality home grown talent and thankfully we have seen the OF managing to buy them and keep them in Scotland. The likes of Allan McGregor, Steven Naismith, Kevin Thomson, Steven Whittaker, Scott Brown, Stephen McManus, Paul Harley, Barry Robsonand Aiden would all get games for the vast majority of the sides in the EPL. And lets not Forget that the likes of David Weir Christian Dailly did well enough for their EPL clubs. There is this opinion in England that Scottish players are rubbish, that English players are slightly better and that all Europeans are better than them both. Scottish football went through the same phase and we came out the other side with better home grown talent...we learned our lesson...the English have yet to open their eyes. But, to say only Aiden would make it in the EPL is just stupid.

Even McGeady isn't good enough to hack it in England. He had a poor last quarter of the season while Cuellar was outstanding throughout the season and was the real player of the year. Why do they vote for player of the year with 10 games still to be played? McGeady won it because players were blinded by the media raving over his assist at Aberdeen. He did nothing against Rangers or in Europe and I predict he will be a one season wonder.

Another poor Sportingo article. If there are indeed 15 Scottisj players in the EPL, then that means there is a ratio of about 1 to 11, Scots to English players. Probably about the same as in the days of Dalglish, and Souness. The EPL is awash with a stupid amount of cash. As a result players are been purchased from all over the world, and EPL clubs ignore the players they have on their own door step. And the end result is that the best league in the world (Copyright: various English football pundits)is now a 2 horse race. Man U, or Chelsea. Funny, for many years that was what the English used to slag of the Scots league with. Also they only have some 170 of their own players in that league. So should the Scots be worried? I don't think so. Our national side can punch above it's weight on a regular basis, and we have clubs reaching the quarter finals of the CL, and final of the EUFA cup on comparatively minimal budgets. Making provocative articles such as this is easy. However, when the basis of your story has foundations of quicksand, you will soon be found wanting in your arguements.

Even McGeady isn't good enough to hack it in England. He had a poor last quarter of the season while Cuellar was outstanding throughout the season and was the real player of the year. Why do they vote for player of the year with 10 games still to be played? McGeady won it because players were blinded by the media raving over his assist at Aberdeen. He did nothing against Rangers or in Europe and I predict he will be a one season wonder.

You have got a lot to say you knuckle dragging unwashed ceptic ***K, shame you wont put a name to your futile comments. COWARD!!!

Celtic and McGeady are just outstanding to be perfectly honest.

Pedantic Pete, your comments are genius. Mon The Hoops.