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If it's a couple of inches he's not doing anything wrong. The part of the ball that's touching the ground doesn't have to be inside or touching the line, the ball just has to overhang any part of the line. So in theory the part of the ball touching the ground can be about 4 inches outside the line and still be fine.

Tuned back in just in time to see HJK going 3-0 down midway through the second half.

Only seen the last 15 minutes or so, but not quaking in my boots so far.

Oh, is that still going? I haven't had any new episodes on the RSS feed since June 😕

Presumably, ref considered Priestman's challenge to have prevented a direct goalscoring opportunity, so downgraded from red to yellow when the penalty was awarded. Mulligan's must just have been considered a (non-reckless) prevention of a "promising attack" due to the number of other defenders in the vicinity, so downgraded from yellow to no card when penalty given.

XX=4, if memory serves.

Ask me again in the 89th minute.

Fwiw, if you use the BBC Sport app instead, you can pick which teams and sports you’re interested in, and it generally does just show you stories about those on its home page with much less OF pish.

Also, Stephen Welsh got subbed after 82 minutes, and Lennon Miller at half time.

I don't have any better suggestions, but regardless of his ability and financial value, I'm not sure anyone who only played for one season in which we ultimately didn't really come close to winning anything could really justify the "best ever" tag.

As someone who normally reads absolutely zero into pre-season friendlies, I have a similar feeling. To be honest, I don't even mind if our mindset is now to use our transfer hoard to strengthen the squad over the next few weeks at the risk of being papped out of Europe early again. But I'm going into the HB tie with zero expectation of success, at this point.

There's your Martin Moorman announced. https://www.motherwellfc.co.uk/2026/07/03/welcoming-martin-moormann-to-ml1/

Don't usually have much of an opinion on our shirts as I'm never going to be buying another one anyway, but all the sleeve logos make this one of the ugliest ones I can remember.

Facial injury apparently, staying behind for further assessment.

Maswanhise not travelling to Denmark, I see... EDIT: Ah, never mind, he got skelped in the face and is having his injury assessed.

I'd be surprised if Accies even last another two years.

From the WhatsApps this morning: Match details confirmed ✅ We will face Havnar Bóltfelag at Fir Park for the first leg of our UEFA Conference League tie before travelling to Tórsvøllur for the second leg. All ticket information will be confirmed and published in due course. https://bit.ly/4uVEON7

In the eating. The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

And there's the official announcement on the WhatsApps.

Now that we're rolling in money I wouldn't be surprised if the club charters something for fans as well as themselves, presumably not at the cheaper end of people's budgets though.

You're not, that's also what the club posted on the 'fishul WhatsApp this morning.

Sounds like he'd burn us to the ground a long time before that.

He is.

I trust anything AI says about as much as anything the Daily Record says.

Quite. With the majority of last season's team still available, they should almost be able to go out on the park and give us a half-decent performance without any managerial input at all.