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The inaugural season of the SPL season ended 10 years ago. Rangers won the title, the Scottish Cup and the League Cup again under new manager Dick Advocaat, while Celtic finished second. Funny how things don’t change eh? Dunfermline where relegated, St. Johnstone (who make another appearance this season) finished third, and there where managerial changes aplenty as Aberdeen lost another manager when Alex Miller was sacked, as did Dundee United, Motherwell and Dunfermline.

The £5.5m transfer of Andrei Kanchelskis from Fiorentina to Rangers also set a new Scottish transfer record. Henrik Larsson’s 27 goals for Celtic made him the leagues top scorer and Kilmarnock played in Europe via the Fair Play league.

To celebrate, in this weeks Meat Pie we round up all the players who played in that first season and who are still in playing in the SPL 10 years later …

Aberdeen:
Jim Hamilton (St Mirren), Dennis Wyness (St Mirren), Derek Young (Aberdeen)

Celtic:
Jackie McNamara (Falkirk)

Dundee:
Jamie Langfield (Aberdeen)

Dundee United:
Alan Combe (Kilmarnock)

Dunfermline:
Colin Nish (Hibernian)

Hearts:
Jim Hamilton (St Mirren), Gary Locke (Kilmarnock), Grant Murray (Kilmarnock), Neil McCann (Falkirk), Scott Severin (Aberdeen), David Weir (Rangers)

Motherwell:
Stephen Craigan (Motherwell), Lee McCulloch (Rangers)

Rangers:
Barry Ferguson (Rangers), Neil McCann (Falkirk)

St Johnstone:
Darren Dods (Dundee United)

source: the Scottish Premier League

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4. The 2008/09 SPL Season Review
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