Wrong thread for this really, but the full article from the Record yesterday:
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/motherwell-keeper-darren-randolph-left-1229854
7.45pm UK time, 9.45pm Athens time. (The 6.45pm time you saw was presumably GMT, which the rest of the world still uses as a reference even though we in the UK are an hour ahead of that at the moment.)
I'm all for giving it a go to try and get the first goal. But if we lose the first goal ourselves, continuing to go gung-ho and losing 8-0 wouldn't do anybody any good, not least the players' confidence. Just trying to keep the score respectable if we went a goal or two down on the night might not be particularly entertaining, but the players would probably benefit more from it.
Anybody who still contacts the Daily Record in this day and age to make a point about a football match is presumably doing so because they don't know how to work they computer hings.
I'll reserve judgment on the folk who still read it
To be honest I didn't think any of the crosses Higdon was on the end of tonight were "great" ... all far too floaty, he was having to do too much of the work that a good whipped cross would have done for him.
Tommy McLean reflects on the Katowice experience:
http://www.thesun.co.uk/scotsol/homepage/sport/spl/4461576/Fans-had-to-shine-car-headlights-on-to-the-pitch-so-we-could-train-for-our-first-European-tie.html
Depends what you mean by "big". But in terms of "never thought it would happen in a million years", "most goosebumps when the teams run out", then it's certainly right up there.
Leeann Dempster seemed to think it would be nearer £200k when she was asked about it on MFC TV a while back, although I don't know what might have changed since we found out who we were playing. Can't imagine it would triple the income, though.
1-1 Full Time, as Ojamaa misses a half-chance to win it with the last kick of the ball. Decent work out for most of our key players, certainly wasn't the pedestrian kick about that these things can often be. Centre of defence still looking a bit weak, though.
Dunno I'm afraid, only seeing the subs listed once they've come on, with no numbers -- Hollis, Faddy, Kerr and Daley so far, and can't really make out the shirt numbers on the video stream too well!
Tsk, stepped out for five minutes and missed Faddy coming on for the 'Well (along with Kerr and Daley)… now Steven Naismith coming on for Everton to a chorus of boos!