What are you doing right now?

[Caspin]

I am still trying to learn about Scottish football. I was hoping to find a nice neat diagram of Before and After the recent pyramidal change, but no such luck. So I thought "Ha! Diagrams are my forte. I'll make my own diagrams from Wikipedia!" but instead I have become more confused even just trying to get to grips with the Before scenario.

I get that there's the Premier League (SPL), which contains all the big names, then there's the Irn-Bru ones below that (of which are three divisions, possibly made from girders) and they're all bunched together and called 'Senior'. OK so far. Then you then have 'Junior' football teams that are sub-divided into regions (West, East and North - but what about South? ...), then you have amateur teams and something called 'welfare' teams (eh?). Then, even though there is a 'North' bit of the Juniors, there is then a further Highland League and, as though to compensate for the lack of a South region in Juniors, there is a separate South of Scotland League. Further to that, there is a whole other League for the East, but not an extra one for the West. I'm lost.

It's all very confusing. I feel that there are too many sections. Then I find out that some of the clubs aren't even Scottish but are English - far north of England, granted, but still not Scottish.



My Project to Understand Football in Scotland ("PUFS"!) is on hold for now.



Edit:

I take it all back, there is nothing unduly complex about the Scottish football stuff. The English one is just as mad really, with Welsh teams competing in England, and various off-shoots to the otherwise relatively tidy pyramid. Clearly I need to accept that I know nothing at all and need to go back to basics. I suppose I've just never paid any attention whatsoever to how the different leagues operate and interact (or not) - my interest in football is usually confined to individual matches.