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7 minutes ago, Winning by Name said:

Brian McClair left Celtic for Man Utd and went on to play many times for them as well as receive many more Scottish caps so to say he didn't return to his previous form after his injury at Celtic is not really the case imho

Where did anyone say that? :huh:

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11 hours ago, The African said:

Interesting article on McClair. He seems to be a decent guy so good luck to him. Pat " beret and NME" Nevin still sounds like a dick though.

He was an obvious talent during his first spell with us. The decision to sell him for £75k to Celtic beggars belief. The people running our club at that point in time were short-sighted, clueless and basically shite.

This period was pretty much at the beginning of my consciousness of what was actually happening in the game, and indeed outside of the game, beyond simply getting to annoy people across the country with a Motherwell flag on a six foot bamboo pole but was it not so much the case that around this time the club were really beginning to find themselves in the shit financially and their hands would have been forced with the McClair bid in 1983?

It was not so many seasons after that there was talk of part-time football, going bust in fact were it not for reconstruction, and debts running to several hundred thousand pounds.  I don't think John Chapman was around the scene at that point of the McClair transfer so I'm not sure if he would be "culpable" but certainly he would be a major player in turning things around.

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9 hours ago, Spiderpig said:

Surely the highlight of any players career is playing for Motherwell, nothing else will match it no matter what medals or honours they get :nod:

Martinez was definitely on the pitch a few times but "playing" is a bit of a stretch.

Good luck to him though. Belgium were excellent last night and he risked his life subbing off big Lukaku when extra time was still possible.

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On 7/6/2018 at 11:32 PM, Spiderpig said:

Surely the highlight of any players career is playing for Motherwell, nothing else will match it no matter what medals or honours they get :nod:

According to Tam Cowan his ‘lowlight‘ was when he tried to sue us for loss of earnings. Apart from that he clearly loved his time with the mighty Well. :ph34r:

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Martinez cheerily waving to some motherwell fans who recognised him at Tannadice several years ago, before an older gent told him he was 'fucking shit', was a great moment.

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