Junior Partners Scottish Cup Scottish Cup Junior Clubs Make Their Bow This Saturday, but, Finds Stewart Fisher, a Full Pyramid System Is No Nearer Reality

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JUNIOR football clubs have finally been permitted to play in the big boys' playground, but it is back to the baby steps as far as any more profound restructuring of Scottish football is concerned.

This Saturday, a mere 11 years after Scottish Junior FA secretary Tom Johnston first wrote to his then SFA counterpart Jim Farry requesting it, the nation's most successful junior clubs enter the country's most glamorous cup competition for the first time.

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Junior Partners Scottish Cup Scottish Cup Junior Clubs Make Their Bow This Saturday, but, Finds Stewart Fisher, a Full Pyramid System Is No Nearer Reality

However, anyone hopeful that this example will translate swiftly into the kind of unified, streamlined pyramid structure in operation south of the border would be best advised to prepare for an equally long haul. At least.

The change in the Scottish Cup's rules (the qualifying cups have been scrapped, and a new entity called the SFA Challenge Cup ...

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