Rewatching Dougie Imrie’s recent Cappielow celebrations or having red-hot pokers pressed in your eyes can be just as exciting as the post-split fixtures when you’re in the wrong half of the table and, thank goodness, at least somewhat out of the relegation spots. I’ll let you choose which is worse.
But they are here now, and the Well will begin their quest to be the “best of the rest” (or the best of a lousy bunch, depending on the dealer) this Saturday when they visit Pittodrie to play Aberdeen.
Hence, even if Motherwell’s season isn’t officially over yet, the fact that the squad barely missed out on a chance to sneak into the top
We’ll all be booting every ball again by the time kickoff arrives at Pittodrie, no doubt, but now seems like a good opportunity to take stock of a season that started out with so much promise, threatened to fall apart spectacularly and disastrously, and is now tough to evaluate.
The saying goes that Motherwell’s season is successful if they stay in the league, and it’s true. Touch wood, then, and by that measure, Kettlewell and his players have done a (almost) good job.
However, their internal goal was to place in the top half, and they just missed that goal
