Well, isn't that better than a one team competition?
I mean you can call Scottish football shit if you want but countries like Ireland, Finland, Denmark and Georgia all have similar populations and worse competitions.
Denmark has a higher UEFA country coefficient than Scotland. Apart from that, I agree.
http://www.uefa.com/memberassociations/uefaranking...
I'd imagine Ireland is in a similar position as us with football being a minority sport, Gaelic, Hurling, and even Rugby are probably more popular.
In scotland football is clearly the number one sport, and they have one of the highest turnouts per population to games.