John Litster's
PUBLISHER OF BOOKS AND DATABASES ON SCOTTISH FOOTBALL HISTORY - and
"SCOTTISH FOOTBALL HISTORIAN" MAGAZINE
THE INTERMEDIATE SPLIT 1927 to 1931
Five years of Turmoil in Scottish Football
by John Litster
The detailed story of
the five years of convulsion in Scottish Football between 1927 and 1931 is told in the 160 page book THE INTERMEDIATE SPLIT, written
by John Litster. It took two decades for the dispute to come to a head, and its convoluted background opens the narrative
followed by a blow-by-blow account of the various attempts to resolve the impass over the following five years.
Illustrated throughout with photographs of the players and officials caught up in the Split, the book charts the shifting positions
of all parties. What started as a a simple quest for a period of notice in signing the best Junior players, and compensation
for their clubs, soon included demands on the governance of Scottish football, the length of the Junior football season, players wage
thresholds and several other issues added into the negotiations. It took a Court of Session case to bring the matter to a head
and there is full coverage of all aspects of the dispute in a book which concludes with details of final League tables and Cup finals
and semi finals.
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