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Burnley’s Fletcher: Celtic and Rangers leaving Scotland would be a bad move

Submitted by Andrew Slevison on Fri, 11/13/2009 - 00:13

Burnley striker Steven Fletcher has agreed with the decision to reject the proposal for Scottish clubs Celtic and Rangers to join the English Premier League.

The former Hibernian man believes it would be a bad move for the Glasgow giants to leave Scottish football and is happy the Old Firm will remain in its current state in the Scottish Premier League.

"Everyone looks forward to playing the Old Firm sides so I think it would take a big part of that away," said the 22-year-old.

"I've played a lot of my football up there and I don't want to see that.

"I don't think they'd do badly if they came down but they're two Scottish teams and I think they should stay up there for the SPL's sake as well."

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Dunfermline Athletic Rangers 1 - 4 12:00
St. Mirren Motherwell 0 - 0 15:00
Hibernian Aberdeen 0 - 0 15:00
Kilmarnock Heart of Midlothian 1 - 1 15:00
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Rangers 26 19 4 3 36 61
Motherwell 25 12 6 7 2 42
Heart of Midlothian 26 10 6 10 8 36
St. Johnstone 25 10 5 10 1 35
Dundee United 25 7 9 9 -1 30
Aberdeen 26 7 9 10 -3 30
Kilmarnock 25 6 11 8 -7 29
St. Mirren 26 6 10 10 -11 28
Inverness CT 25 7 5 13 -11 26
Hibernian 25 4 7 14 -21 19
Dunfermline Athletic 26 4 6 16 -30 18
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