Good share, thanks for that. I had never even heard of the Anglo Scottish cup but nice one on stuffing Celtic at the San Giro
This is pretty much as tough a draw as both teams could have got which is why everyone felt unease at first but now, having accepted that we will probably go out, I'm looking forward to the tie. It's a free swing basically and as I have said previously our squad is far more used to starting back so early which I'm hoping will level the scales a we bit.
Re scottish and english football. It's ridiculous to even compare them given the financial gulf. What I will say is this though, Scottish football at it's best is an awful lot of fun and far more entertaining than the EPL imo. I say that as someone who used to watch a lot of english football and still listen religiously to the likes of football weekly. Up here you get loads of really close games, fascinating rivalry's, affordable prices and most away grounds are only 3 hours or so away at the most. There was something to play for at pretty much every match right up to and including the last fixture of the season.
The technical ability of the top league is lower without question then plenty of other european leagues but it's very quick and intense and I've seen plenty of big names come to Scotland and not be able to hack it, Joey Barton most recently (he really looked clueless up here btw, it had nothing to do with the standard around him either he just couldn't adapt to the pace of the game). Sure celtic run away with the league every year but at the moment they are just so much richer than anyone else, I'm sure you can relate to this playing in the EPL.. The gulf of resource between Celtic and Aberdeen is probably higher than the gulf between Burnley and Man City to put it in a little context.
I think Burnley will go through after 2 very close encounters but I wouldn't put the house on it.