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<blockquote data-quote="edinburgh_gunner" data-source="post: 80370"><p>Taken from BBC.co.uk:</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Well, lower league football dies today. That twat of a livingston owner Pearse Flynn has shafted lower league teams outwith the 1st division. I hate that shithole of a dump livingston enough as it is, but words cannot describe my contempt for it now. Flynn is only doing this cause Livingston are so crap that they got relegated from the original Self Preservation League.</p><p></p><p>This puts my team, Ayr, in exactly the same position as it was a few years ago. When we were in the 1st div it was ourselves and Livingston going for the ***le. Unfortunatley they were able to clinch the ***le by a few points, but it was probably due to the fact that our players gave up knowing that they would not be promoted. The SPL has this silly rule for ground requirements, we had to have a 10,000 all seater stadium. Our board applied, it was aproved by South Ayrshire council but blocked by the Executive. Somerset Park is 10,000+ already, but is mainly terracing so we couldn't have gone up. Now, having been relegated (party due to the fact we didn't gain promotion, and spent alot of cash on the squad to get us there and became skint, sold our players and became useless) and trying to get promoted this season, we have to put in around 2,000 seats at Somerset. Somerset is a really old ground and I doubt we'd get the planning permission to get it. Ayr aren't the only team stuck though, plenty of the other teams are nackered.</p><p></p><p></p><p>SFL and common sense in Scottish football, RIP.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="edinburgh_gunner, post: 80370"] Taken from BBC.co.uk: Well, lower league football dies today. That twat of a livingston owner Pearse Flynn has shafted lower league teams outwith the 1st division. I hate that shithole of a dump livingston enough as it is, but words cannot describe my contempt for it now. Flynn is only doing this cause Livingston are so crap that they got relegated from the original Self Preservation League. This puts my team, Ayr, in exactly the same position as it was a few years ago. When we were in the 1st div it was ourselves and Livingston going for the ***le. Unfortunatley they were able to clinch the ***le by a few points, but it was probably due to the fact that our players gave up knowing that they would not be promoted. The SPL has this silly rule for ground requirements, we had to have a 10,000 all seater stadium. Our board applied, it was aproved by South Ayrshire council but blocked by the Executive. Somerset Park is 10,000+ already, but is mainly terracing so we couldn't have gone up. Now, having been relegated (party due to the fact we didn't gain promotion, and spent alot of cash on the squad to get us there and became skint, sold our players and became useless) and trying to get promoted this season, we have to put in around 2,000 seats at Somerset. Somerset is a really old ground and I doubt we'd get the planning permission to get it. Ayr aren't the only team stuck though, plenty of the other teams are nackered. SFL and common sense in Scottish football, RIP. [/QUOTE]
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