MJC

You’re not far off, it was against Dunfermline at the end of the season when we lost 4-1 at East End Park to set up that awful last day at home to St.Mirren. He did make another ridiculous comment after a 4-1 loss to Inverness at home earlier that same season when he said post match “I wish I could just have walked out after 75 minutes like the fans did” or something to that effect.

His first season in his first spell was brilliant and the football we played that season, particularly in the first half of the season was absolutely sublime. After that season though he clearly thought he was too big for us and the way he spend his second season basically whoring himself out to other clubs, arguing with fans and being more or less an unofficial Celtic mouthpiece then any good will I had for him disappeared. And don’t forget he hung about for weeks longer than he should have in summer 2009 when everyone knew he was leaving and we had a rebuilding job to do, but he wanted to wait as long as possible to see if he got the Celtic job before settling for Aberdeen. I was absolutely disgusted when he was brought back here and had absolutely no doubts at the time and still don’t that that was down to some personal friendships he had with people in positions of power inside Fir Park. He continued disrespecting the club during his 2nd spell and his sermon about how missing out on promotion with Wolves twenty years earlier was the reason he “was managing Motherwell today and not Liverpool” was and still is one of the worst things I’ve ever heard a Motherwell manager coming out with.

I’d forgotten about that, that’s hilarious If Dundee appoint that self important bag of wind then hell mend them, that is very much a case of ‘jobs for the boys’ with Strachan getting his pal a gig.

With heavy snow forecast on Friday could this game be in doubt? Maybe not for the condition of the pitch but the surrounding area and police travel advice might be a factor here?

As good a draw as we could have hoped for at this stage and a chance to get revenge for last years QF loss to them. The rest of the draw wasn’t as kind though with the Old Firm and Hearts virtually given byes to the Semis.

Remember Steven Craig leaving us for Aberdeen and him saying that he would be able to pull more birds in Magaluf or somewhere because Aberdeen were much better known than Motherwell were? I don’t know how he got on in Magaluf but he did very little with Aberdeen!

That was two years later, in 97/98 was it not? That was a horrendously garish kit but I always think of Eliphas Shivute scoring a diving header at Ibrox when I think of it.

Falconer signing was a big factor in our survival that season as we had Coyne and Arnott out long term and couldn’t buy a goal. I remember Dougie Donnelly on the Sportscene highlights of that Cup game saying in his analysis “it looks as though Motherwell could go the rest of the season without scoring another goal doesn’t it?” And at that point it really did. As for this Saturday, a 0-1 defeat.

They did exactly the same with Jimmy Calderwood. He had them consistently finishing in the top six and challenging for Europe, even achieving some great results in the then UEFA Cup. Yet they hounded him out and replaced him with Mark McGhee who, in his very first press conference with them basically said that getting that job was a second choice to the Celtic job. He then went on to have one of the worst win % of any manager they’d ever had before. If ever a club and a manager deserved each other it was Aberdeen with McGhee.

He wouldn’t last five minutes up there.

History suggests no. In league and cup double headers between the sides in recent memory it’s always been one win each. 20/09/95 - LCQF Motherwell 1-2 Aberdeen 14/10/95 - League - Motherwell 2-1 Aberdeen 30/01/96 - SC3 Motherwell 0-2 Aberdeen 13/02/96 - League - Motherwell 1-0 Aberdeen 11/03/12 - SCQF Motherwell 1-2 Aberdeen 17/03/12 - League - Motherwell 1-0 Aberdeen 11/12/12 - SC4 Motherwell 1-2 Aberdeen 26/12/12 - League - Motherwell 4-1 Aberdeen 21/09/17 - LCQF Motherwell 3-0 Aberdeen 24/09/17 - League - Motherwell 0-1 Aberdeen 03/04/18 - League - Motherwell 0-2 Aberdeen 14/04/18 - SCSF Motherwell 3-0 Aberdeen 12/02/22 - SC5 Motherwell 2-1 Aberdeen 19/02/22 - League - ??

Each to their own, but I find Aberdeen and their sportsound cheerleaders insufferable. As I said I also find Aberdeen’s supporters extremely obnoxious and nasty, as they frequently sing/chant about players getting injured and have heard numerous vile remarks or songs about the deaths of Davie Cooper and Phil O’Donnell from their fans in and around Fir Park over the years. Another thing that always stuck with me was a quote in what I’m sure was John Swinburne’s book about the ‘91 Cup win (Well Worth the Wait). After the 3rd round tie up there the author said that he wished a female Aberdeen supporter well for the remainder of the season to which she responded that she “hoped Ravenscraig shut down tomorrow”. Add to that I find the City of Aberdeen one of the most sour and unwelcoming of places you could ever have the misfortune to visit, so anything to do with them just annoys me and I love it when we get one over on them.

That is supposed to be a national show, yet Gordon and Miller frequently refer to Aberdeen as ‘we’ and are blatantly biased live on air about them. Anyone who heard Gordon’s mumping and moaning after the Craig Reid game in 2014 will know what i mean. It was/is totally unprofessional. The ones who support one of the Old Firm yet play it down at least attempt to show a bit of impartiality, ie. Chick Young with Rangers and Hugh Keevins with Celtic. It’s relatively well known that Keevins is a Celtic fan and that Young supports Rangers, despite his St.Mirren gimmick. At least they treat their listeners with a bit of respect to not refer to their team as “we” live on air.

Beating Aberdeen will never not be satisfying due to the ‘Sportsound mafia’ of their fans who don’t even attempt to hide their allegiances, plus a lot of Aberdeen fans in general are some of the most obnoxious, ignorant arseholes in football. Some of the things I’ve heard them singing and shouting at matches at Fir Park over the years is every bit as bad, if not worse, than the Old Firm fans whom they would have you believe they are morally superior to.

The Aberdeen fans are taking it really badly. Videos on social media of their players walking through them in the South Stand and you can just taste the rage from them. That and Richard Gordon’s obvious hurt on Radio Scotland just makes the win all the sweeter. Get it right round the lot of them.

That seems to be happening more and more in football these days and not just with our own fans. No excuses for it to be honest, just support your team without that carry on.

What happened?

Our first home Scottish Cup tie win against Aberdeen in over 60 years!

It was yes. That has to be one of the most satisfying results we’ve had in recent years. When we went 1-0 down inside the first few minutes, in the manner we did, having just had an offside call, in those conditions, it looked like one of those frustrating Cup ties that we’ve seen all to often. However a superb strike by van Veen to level and to go 2-1 ahead on the stroke of half time was a real shot in the arm for us, and a real blow for them. Well done Motherwell

Beauty from KvV!! 1-1

So bad it’s almost funny.

Donnelly retains his place and O’Hara starts with Slattery benched. Alexander is taking the piss with that, it’s almost like that Only an Excuse sketch from years ago of Alex McLeish picking his Rangers team in the style of a Cup draw, except this is real. Old man Broon will have a field day in the middle of the park against Donnelly today.

Slattery should start, but needs to play in the middle, but we all know that there is little to no chance of GA dropping Donnelly. I would like to see van Veen starting up front with Roberts and Woolery/Tierney supporting but you just don’t know how the manager will line up. He needs to treat this as ‘must win’ and go with our best possible eleven, something he didn’t do in the previous round which almost cost us.

Yeah the Kampman era/months had a fair spattering of foreigners but he also brought in Brian McClair, Jered Stirling, Grieg Miller, Jamie McGowan and of course Derek Adams. Some of those names are enough to bring a shudder, though Adams did go on to be a solid player for us.