Hearts Midfielder Danny Swanson Calls For Better Promotion of Scottish Football
Hearts midfielder Danny Swanson has called for Scotland to learn from England and promote its football better.
Swanson signed for Hearts in September following spells at Peterborough and Coventry and has seen a marked difference in how each country sells its game, despite admitting standards have dipped slightly since his Dundee United days.
Without Rangers, that's going to happen,'' said Swanson, whose team host Hamilton in the Ladbrokes Premiership on Saturday.
The thing I have noticed coming back is that more teams try to play good football, which is good to see.
I think it has dropped a little bit since I first came through, but teams are trying to play and there are a lot of younger players coming through.
It's definitely not as bad as people try to make out. I think that's the problem. When I came up I noticed the difference in how negative people are towards the game compared to England.
There were some terrible games but no matter what, they tried to find positives. That's what we need to do up here, make the game sound better because it's not as bad as people make out.
There are a lot of good players here, as you see when they go down to England, they do well. It's very underrated.
You watch some English games on the TV and they are always positive but here some of the commentators aren't as enthusiastic. People down there look at the game and say 'it's not great up there' and I'm trying to argue my point but there are so many people against me.
I don't know exactly how we do it but we need to find a way to sell it to other people.''