red dave said:
Fergie achieved it with Aberdeen so why cant some one else!
Because football has changed since then.
The SPL, despite the quality and numeracy gap between the Premiership, is structured the very same way.
You have the teams seen as being title contenders (Celtic and Rangers), the UEFA Cup contenders (Dundee Utd, Aberdeen, Hibs, Hearts) the mid-table sides (Kilmarnock, Motherwell, Falkirk) and the sides battling relegation (St Mirren, Hamilton, Inverness CT) {The promoted sides usually always go into the relegation battlers)
On the odd occasion, you get someone transferring between the relegation battlers and the mid-table sides (Falkirk, who are battling relegation and St Mirren who are mid-table this season) and a side like Motherwell who won a European place last season. And every couple of years, you may get clubs moving around into the different sections, but no one can move into the title contenders section and in all honesty their is hardly any gap whatsoever between mid-table and relegation battlers, so those sections as I've suggested are fairly sketchy tbh.
Hearts should have won the League a couple of years ago. They had a good team, managed by George Burley but Vladimir Romanov (the owner) ended up sacking the manager, interfered with the team so they ended up with a UEFA Cup place.
But everything has changed now. For example, Hearts, and Romanov, are struggling financially (players have been paid late, clubs have been paid late fees, and bills have been in jeopardy - Hearts were threatened with getting their water supply cut off for not paying the bill.)
You can also add the fact that the Old Firm always end up buying the other clubs best players, even if they don't end up getting games. (Then their supporters complain about a lack of competition from the other sides.)
Finances are key. The Old Firm pay much higher wages than the other sides, and generally players of a fairly high standard aren't interested in coming to Scotland unless to the Old Firm if at all.
Talking of the Old Firm though, Rangers are struggling a bit financially whereas Celtic are flourishing it's safe to say, so if Celtic manager the situation properly they could dominate the League, much like Rangers did in the 90's.