why have scotland been so bad at football for years,and is that why they dislike england winning??

Answer 1

Well as scotland dont PLAY football,, only attempt it,, thats one reason...
But for another , could be because their leagues are so small, they dont have enough experience playing other teams.
Their national squad is doing better , as many of the players play in other countries, so get the better experience.
Oh and its not that they dislike us winning, they just dont like us.
Maybe its because we discovered wearing trousers, why they run around in skirts...

Answer 2

Trophies for Scotland this summer = 1 (Kirin Cup).....Trophies for england = 0.

If you are actually asking why our national team has been in decline in a serious manner then the reasons are many. Poor forward planning by the SFA to bring on the grassroots being high on the agenda along with poor league structure leading to the exclusion of young players development and the favouring of journeymen foreigners in the scottish leagues for a good few years has hurt us along with just a natural low ebb of talent in the game.

Right now however we seem to have a promising bunch of youngsters along with a few old heads who might not make it from easily the hardest quailifing group ever in any competition but will grow and learn along the way.

As for not liking england winning....it's not really england per say it the way the media constantly bloody force it down our necks (and I am sure I speak for Wales and Northern Ireland as well here). Our teams played yesterday as well and on the BBC we got a 1 hour programme to see the international footy and a 30 second audio report of that was devoted to the scots and the Norn Iron boys got a 3 minutes video after a HUGE win against Spain. england scraped a win against macedonia (yes scraped..Ashley Cole could easily have own goaled that clearance) and got 40 - 45 minutes.....The beeb is suppose to represent the four nations equally but it never happens.

So to sum up, if you could promise not to mention 1966 for more than five minutes (or shoot Motson - either is ok) then I might just then start wishing you all the best in a competition.

Answer 3

Scotland is a very small country, with a very small population. We have punched above our weight for many years, mostly due to the fact that football was a national obsession, and in the poorer areas of the country most kids had nothing else to do all day. We are not "bad", we are finding our level. Unfortunately we are in Europe, where most of the best footballers and teams are concentrated, and consuquently our level is not good enough here.

Many teams worse than Scotland have, and will continue to qualify for World Cups due to being in weaker qualifying confederations (Trinidad and Tobago, and Iran being perfect examples).

Also UEFA's seeding system now almost guarantees that teams from Europe's smaller nations will never again (bar a small miracle) qualify for the World / European championships. We are in a group of 3rd or 4th seeds, and so are always guaranteed much stiffer oppostion than we could reasonably be expected to beat regularly in qualifying. This year's qualifying group being the perfect example (France, Italy and the Ukraine being both World cup finalists and one of the quarter finalists!).

As for not wanting England to win, it's not the footballers or the fans we dislike, it's the media. The crowing and the jingoism make us not want England to win. They even managed to mention 1966 last night....against f'ing Moldova!

Answer 4

It's the attitudes of the commentators that get on our nerves the most. During the World Cup it was parituarly bad. "We won't meet them till the final" "Only 7 games to go now". We've also heard nothing for the last 40 years about 1966, when other teams have won far more frequently than England. It's nothing to do with the actual players or supporters. I also think it's worth remembering that it's natural to be sporting rivals with your neighbours. Ask somebody in Holland if they want Germany to win and I think you'll get the same answer.
As for Scotland being rubbish, at least we know we were.

Answer 5

The Scots have done remarkably well as a footballing nation when you consider they have a population half the size of that of London. With such a small pool to draw from to find players of a high calibre and international standard must be a constant struggle, but they have proved to be successful at it in the past with great players like Dennis Law, Billy Bremner, Kenny Dalgleish, Gordon MacQueen, Gordon Strachan, Archie Gemmill and many many others. Perhaps it can be said that Scotland, like England, has suffered from the influx of too many foreign players playing in their top leagues denying places to, and the development of, up and coming young Scots. I think we are beginning to see promising beginnings of a new young side. As England has bigger leagues and a much larger pool of talent from which to draw, this problem isn't perhaps as acute as north of the Border. As for the Scots disliking England, well sorry I have no answer to that here. Its historical, possibly even genetic and nothing whatsoever to do with the football teams.

Answer 6

Lack of money in the game and not developing youngsters. There has always been a "hate" relationship between England and Scotland so thats not new. England haven't won any cups for 40 years to my knowledge but Scotland won the Kirin Cup last year and I didn't exactly hear the English queuing up to congratulate them.

Answer 7

A question like this from the usual Yahoo! Answers oaf brings forth the predictable rabid Scots and dim-witted Nigels.
One or two exceptions here but most of the above material was written by people of low sophistication and class.
The usual under-achieving working-class louts whose opinions do not count.
But some have a level-headed approach.
It is the English media many other country's fans hate.
As for the comment on Sir Wiliam Wallace - Wallace was a freedom fighter trying to rid his country of an occupying army.
Got a problem with that Nigel?
I for one will contest any English propaganda on the subject.
Some of us are working very hard to end the union through political means.
We will win this. You can slide into end-of-empire oblivion as our country grows.
England.
No national identity.
Ha!

Answer 8

Scotland's been so bad at playing football etc., etc. Are you kidding, that's the sort of question that gives the English a bad name in Scotland..... Burke!

I think you ought to look at Englands past performances, before you start a rant. Two winning games doth not a winning team make.

England supporter!

EDIT Stop all this ranting we love each other really forget the past what's done is done. After all the biggest enemy the Scots had was themselves. If you care to look back in history and not all that stupid waffle spouted in Braveheart William Wallace was a very cruel man and did unto others that he would not have liked done to himself.... and even to his own country men.

Here's another thought many Scots are descendants of the English..now there's food for thought.

Answer 9

We might have been bad for years but we are always trying and to say why we hate england its easy they are all arrogant self centered tosspots who think they are gods gift when we all know thats just not true. when a scots team does well they are british but when its england no one else exists.and for the record when did england last win something cos i believe scotland have come home with a trophy this year so stick that in yer pipe and smoke it and remember we dont talk about 1967 glorious 3-2.

Answer 10

It's not so much that they don't like England winning, they just don't like England... or the English. Football is just often the most visible way this particular animosity manifests itself. Remember the World Cup, people in England kits were attacked in Scotland:http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/5101184.stm

The fact that a vocal group of Scots hate the English has nothing to do with the quality of Scottish football and rather more to do with the Battle of Culloden.

(Of course, many Scots don't share this dislike of the English. And the English, of course, couldn't care less about what the Scots think. ;o)

Answer 11

We dislike them winning a game because of the media,esp that alan bloke from bbc, the go on, and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on................., well you get the idea. Most of the time you play teams a hundred placed down the ranks that the england c theam should b able to beat.
The Scotland team is rubbish due to under investment at the grass- roots level mabe worse buy big teams buying forign players rather than develop there own.