Originally Posted by
Hibbyradge
I don't think that's the cause of our failings at national level.
It's certainly bad in Scotland, but other countries aren't exactly overflowing with their variety of league champions.
It was 1984/85 when a team other than Celtc or Rangers won the Scottish league. Since then Celtc have won it 16 times and Rangers 17 and Aberdeen once, obviously.
In the same time period, Barcelona and Real Madrid have won 30 of the available 34 league titles.
In Portugal Benfica or Porto have won it 32 times.
Even in Germany, Bayern Munich and Dortmund have won the league 26 times out of the last 34, with 2 clubs winning it once and 2 twice.
In England, 10 different clubs have won the title in that time with only Manchester United in double figures (13). No other team has won more than 5 times. (I wonder if the variety of winners one of the reasons people think it's the best league in the world.)
So, England have a greater diversity of success, but their national side still fails.
Other countries, with a similar duopoly to Scotland, have won the WC and the Euros.