Scottish Football Results - 12 March 2008

Scottish Football Results - 12th March 2008

There were 2 games in the SPL last night Celtic played Dundee Utd & Hibernian played Motherwell. Celtic were looking to put pressure on league leaders Rangers but failed to get past the defence of Dundee Utd in an exciting 0-0 draw. Motherwell were looking to put more distance between themselves and Dundee Utd in the hunt for 3rd place and the coveted UEFA Cup spot.

You can watch the Celtic Vs Dundee Utd Highlights here - Windows Media Player Required.

SPL Midweek Highlights

Clydesdale The SPL Midweek Highlights

Well all the scottish teams played on wednesday and we have the highlights for each game here for you to watch, you will need windows media player to watch these. With Rangers still 4 points ahead of Celtic the title race may come down to the “Old Firm” games that are left unless one of the two drop points. Also the hunt for 3rd place is still ongoing between Motherwell, Dundee United & Hibs. While at the bottom of the table Gretna still look favourites to go down with Kilmarnock trailing them by 6 points.

Motherwell Vs Hearts Highlights : SPL Highlights

Motherwell Vs Hearts Highlights : SPL Highlights

Motherwell have been doing great this season and they still sit third in the league with Dundee United just behind them, if you had told me that these two clubs would have occupied the 3rd and 4th spots in the SPL at this part of the season i probably would have laughed. Hearts on the other hand have started to pick up a little bit of form but they still sit in the bottom half of the table and they travel to Fir Park with a tough tie on their hands.

Fir Park

Motherwell
Name: Fir Park Stadium
Nickname: -
When Built: 1895
Capacity: 13,742
Record Attendance: 35,632 – 1952 – Motherwell vs Rangers

Address: Fir Park Street, Motherwell, North Lanarkshire, ML1 2QN

Description: The stadium is all-seater with a capacity of 13,742. The stadium’s design is pretty unbalanced, with large and small stands. The largest stand is the South Stand, built in 1993. Opposite to it is a really small stand, built in 1995, called Davie Cooper Stand. Along the east side, there’s a former terrace that has been converted to seating area called the East Stand. The main stand is opposite to the east stand but this stand only covers two thirds of the length of the pitch.

Brief History: Built in 1895, the stadium has been Motherwell’s house since when it was opened. During time there were several modifications made to the stadium but only in the 1990s the stadium became all-seated and new, modern stands were built. The record attendance was over 35,000 in 1952 in a cup match against Rangers and this season, the owners Motherwell, are sharing the stadium with newly promoted Gretna until they’ll redevelop their stadium to be compliant with Scottish Premier League rules.

Fir Park

Mark McGhee

Name: Mark Edward McGhee
Age: 50
Nationality: Scottish
Current Club: Motherwell

Brief Playing History: He started his professional football player career in 1975 at the small team Greenock Morton as a striker and during his career he played at a lot of teams from Scotland and England. Few years after he started his career he moved to Newcastle United for 1 year, and then he came back in Scotland to play with the Aberdeen dream team that won European Cup Winners Cup in front of Real Madrid. At Aberdeen he also won twice the Scottish Premiership, 3 times Scottish Cup and in 1982 he was crowned the best Scottish Football Player. After this great period he went in germany for an year to play at Hamburg, then came back to Newcastle and in 1993 he finished his career at Reading in England.

Brief Management history: He started coaching at Reading, but until he trained only small teams and didn’t had big success in his coaching career only in lower leagues. He won twice the Division Two Title in England, once in 1994 with Reading and once in 2001 with Millwall. Also, he took Wolves in FA Cup semis in 1998. After managing a lot of teams from England, he came in Scotland in 2007 to coach Motherwell, where he’s doing a good job.

Previous Clubs Played For:
1975-1977 – Greenock Morton
1977-1978 – Newcastle United
1978-1984 – Aberdeen
1984-1985 – Hamburg
1985-1989 – Celtic
1989-1991 – Newcastle United
1991 – IK Bradge
1991-1993 - Reading

Previous Clubs Managed:
1991-1994 – Reading
1994-1995 – Leicester City
1995-1998 – Wolves
2000-2003 – Millwall
2003-2006 – Brighton & Hove Albion
2007 – present – Motherwell

Motherwell FC

Motherwell FC Nicknames: The Well
Founded: 1886
Stadium: Fir Park
Capacity: 13,742
Chairman: Bill Dickie
Manager: Mark McGhee

Motherwell currently play in the SPL (top flight scottish football), their home stadium is fir park and manager is Mark McGhee.

Motherwell Player & Captain Phil ‘ODonnell 35 was strectchered off the park 12 minutes before the end of the game against Dundee United, he later died of cardiac arrest (29/12/07)… The footballing nation stood up and honoured the former celtic & shefield player with 1 minute silences held at every game in the UK as a mark of respect.

Mark McGhee tookover Motherwell June 18th 2007, and has guided them into the top half of the SPL this season after finished 10th last season, Alot of this goes down to Mark McGhee’s style of football he has worked with what he has and has introduced the much dubbed “sexy football” to fir park, with a style of play that involves 1,2 passes and keeping the ball on the ground.