From titles to tinpottery – rank Scotland’s top 10 clubs – BBC Sport

Again, no prizes for guessing who charts at the top of Scotland’s all-time honours list.

Celtic and Rangers make up over 67% of the major trophies won by Scottish clubs, with the Ibrox side (118) still two ahead of their Glasgow rivals (116).

Beneath them sit Aberdeen on 19, over half of which came under iconic manager Sir Alex Ferguson between 1978 and 1986.

Two of the 10 won by Ferguson included a Cup Winners’ Cup and Uefa Super Cup – that’s one more European trophy than any other Scottish team as Rangers (1971-72 Cup Winners’ Cup) and Celtic (1966-67 European Cup) have one each.

Celtic fans will argue theirs holds the most prestige, given it’s the big one and they were the first British club to win it, but we’ll leave that to you to decide.

Rightly or wrongly, recency bias will play a big part in some decision-making – and that’s where St Johnstone fly right into the debate. In the last decade, the Perth side are Scotland’s most successful non-Old Firm club, winning two Scottish Cups and a League Cup.

Those three honours are still a long way off the overall hauls of Hearts (16) and Hibs (10), while Queen’s Park’s 10 Scottish Cups – won in the 1800s – has them level with the Leith club.

Next in line, all on five, are Kilmarnock, Dundee and Dundee United, who, like Aberdeen, enjoyed huge success in the 1980s and even reached a European Cup semi-final and Uefa Cup final – with the trio of Motherwell, St Mirren and even League 2 East Fife all on four.

Fans of Celtic and Aberdeen can use this one to their advantage, given both clubs have never suffered relegation, as can supporters of Motherwell, who haven’t dropped out of the top flight since 1985.

In that time, perceived bigger clubs, such as Hearts, Hibs, Dundee United and Dundee, have all suffered multiple relegations, while Rangers have also spent time in the lower leagues following all that business in 2012.

Motherwell’s current 39-year Premiership status is largely responsible for them amassing the sixth-most points in Scottish top-flight history.

That’s according to worldfootball.net, who have Celtic top, with Rangers, Hearts, Aberdeen and Hibs in the following four spots.

But fingers will be pointed at the 1999-00 and 2002-03 seasons as far as Aberdeen and Motherwell are concerned.

The Dons finished bottom of the league in 2000, as did the Fir Park club three years later, but they were spared the prospect of relegation as Falkirk’s Brockville Stadium failed to meet the SPL’s criteria on both occasions.

Right, this is where it gets fun. But, before we go any further, we assume some of you will be wondering what the act of tinpottery actually is.

In football terms, let’s just say it’s when your team has acted a bit small time – or even just made themselves look daft. Aye, we could be here a while.

The aforementioned Brockville Stadium situation from the early 2000s is a great example, but that’s not where it ends for Falkirk.

In 2016, they ran a competition for fans to watch a game from a pitch-side hot tub, plus the very fact they have been knocking about Scotland’s third tier for the past four seasons must also tar them with tinpottery.

The same could be said about Dunfermline and Partick Thistle, who have both jumped between the Championship and League 1 since suffering top-flight relegation.

While we’re at it, chuck in Thistle dishing out pizzas as man-of-the match awards.

It doesn’t top there for the top-flight sides. St Mirren rebranding their club store to a temporary Celtic shop comes to mind, while Kilmarnock and Livingston having no real grass at their grounds is surely a double red flag.

From losing to Stirling Albion, who were managerless for the day as Greig McDonald was off getting married, to Bilel Mohsni throwing haymakers at Fir Park, Rangers’ journey through the divisions was littered with tinpottery.

The same applies to the recent relegations of Hibs, Dundee United and Hearts, who don’t escape there – don’t forget the Tynecastle club had to delay the opening of their new stand because they forgot to order seats.

Celtic fans, your team isn’t immune from small-time behaviour either. Building up nine years of consecutive league titles, only to watch a historic 10-in-a-row bid fail in spectacular fashion is undoubtedly your club’s crowning tinpot moment.