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    Motherwell FC - A Thread For All Seasons

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    1 hour ago, Handsome_Devil said:

    Ooooh, an issue 1...very impressive.

    Biased too but GLF (and broader fanzine culture in general) was cracking back in the day. 

    It's one of these things where explaining to youngsters who post about the game literally while watching it that you had four weeks to collate your thoughts and six-eight to see it in print is wonderful.

    I genuinely think the quicker world in those terms contributes to the ever decreasing patience with managers.

    Yes at the time it was edgy and different but in these days of digital instancy it feels as if it was from a bygone era. 

     I have most of the first 16 issues covering 1990 to 1994. They make decent reading and cover an interesting period so if anyone wants a loan just let me know

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    Motherwell FC - A Thread For All Seasons

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    15 hours ago, crazylegsjoe_mfc said:

    I'm not going to sit here and tell the Netflix guy how to make a documentary, but I have been thinking about this and wondering to myself how a BTS Motherwell documentary would be marketed.

    I do enjoy those types of programmes and have watched most of them that are available. There seems to be the ones that follow really big clubs like Arsenal, Man City, Spurs, Juve etc. Then the others that follow smaller clubs seem to have some kind of USP. 

    Sunderland 'till I die was obviously targeted at them going straight back up, but they went down. 

    Wrexham got bought by two actors and are trying to go through the divisions.

    Fort William were the worst team in the world or whatever it was.

    Real Kashmir had a pale, swearing ginger Scotsman in the Indian league.

    I know people use the "rollercoaster" patter about us, but 40 years in the top flight and 33 years without a trophy probably dismisses that to an extent. One of those two ending would probably make a good documentary and I'd fear it would be the former!

    I sold this fanzine outside the ground in the late 80s early 90s. Might make a good title for any docuseries20240412_140121.thumb.jpg.2722be887e5c0d6ad804c9f10cb8c4bb.jpg

     

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    Motherwell FC - A Thread For All Seasons

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    7 hours ago, Handsome_Devil said:

    Someone once suggested we have a 42 team league, play each other once and use the standings to define the teams for the regular leagues from then on.

    You could do this every 10/20 years as a giant reset and while it's obviously unfair as f**k, it sounds totally hilarious and therefore I'm all for it.

    Once every ten years they should reset the points to zero after the split. That would be bedlam.

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    Motherwell FC - A Thread For All Seasons

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    9 minutes ago, santheman said:

    I've always thought we missed the bus a bit with Ravenscraig.

    I imagined a new stadium linked to the Ravenscraig facility with franchises like MCDs KFC etc based there  generating rental income and giving community groups NL Council and the NHS office facilities like you say. A fully integrated community and sports facility in partnership with the different bodies.

    You can always dream.

    KFC boneless banquet followed by a visit to the NHS cholesterol clinic followed by Motherwell game to give you heart palpitations...fully integrated indeed.

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    Motherwell FC - A Thread For All Seasons

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    3 hours ago, santheman said:

    The old Broomfield was a great place to watch a game with a terrific atmosphere when we played up there. Section B and all that, blood and thunder on the park and running battles outside, happy days.

    Remember having to walk there and back from Motherwell one New Year when all the buses and trains were off and getting chased through Chapelhall on the way home.

     

     

     

    Me and my mate made the tactical error of wearing our well scarves down Airdrie main street. Got chased to his Grans house in Thrashbush where we collected her mental alsatian for protection

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    Motherwell FC - A Thread For All Seasons

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    10 minutes ago, Vietnam91 said:

    The issue here is how the same team of officials interpret handball incidents an hour apart.

    Handball rules need changed :

    Every handball in the box should be a foul :

    Handball by the attacking team is an indirect free kick to defending team

    Obvious deliberate handball by defending team is a penalty

    Stopping a certain goal by handball from defending team is a penalty whether it's deliberate or not

    All other handball in box by defending team is an indirect free kick inside the box

     

     

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    Motherwell FC - A Thread For All Seasons

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    33 minutes ago, standupforthemotherwell said:

    I was raging that I missed that game through having to work my weekend job.

    I was very much party to similar scenes in the playoff Vs Rangers more recently. There were more Motherwell fans that day as a playoff final is a bigger draw than an end of season league game and also most of the infiltrators didn't make it as far as half time but it was hilarious watching more of them being outed as each goal went in 

    I was very popular that week getting ticket requests a plenty from Rangers fans. Took great pleasure in giving them all the same answer....

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    Motherwell FC - A Thread For All Seasons

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    23 minutes ago, superwell87 said:

    There were a few around me in my seat in the east stand despite the section I was being mainly ST holders. I will always remember getting a call from my mum at 2-1 to "find your Uncle David and get a lift home". I was 17 at the time and I guess my mum was just concerened given the circumstances. I did find him, but to get to his car we had to cross Dalziel Drive in front of loads of, shall we say "rather upset" Celtic fans. Never did tell her about that one.

    There were points during the game when I wondered whether bring a 6 year old into the bowels of the East Stand was a good idea but my son says it is one if those childhood moments of joy that will forever be etched in his memory 

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    Motherwell FC - A Thread For All Seasons

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    7 minutes ago, StAndrew7 said:

    That's why I love it so much. They tried so hard to blend in and then they just cried and cried and cried and it was fucking glorious.

     

    40 minutes ago, StAndrew7 said:

    I'm still smiling (I'm the first aider on the left, my brother is on the right).

    This is up there with my all time Motherwell photographs.

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    As a first aider you should've wiped away their tears and put them in a jar

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    Motherwell FC - A Thread For All Seasons

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    1 hour ago, Jim McLean's Ghost said:

    Mugabi is a good player for us. He isn't even a top 3 defensive problem

    Blaney, Butcher and SOD are all terrible. Liam Kelly is rancid. Then we still have no full backs signed for next season.

    Agree on Bevis as long as he is in the middle of back 3. As well as being only centre half with pace he is strong, good in the air, a fairly solid defender and a threat at set pieces. He is prone to the occasional error but he's more than good enough for Motherwell 

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