1.15pm

The club are still trying to finalise their pre-season schedule, but the following list of friendlies (still unconfirmed I believe) appeared in the Wishaw Press this week:

Sat July 9 - Queen's Park (a)
Tue July 12 - Southampton (h)
Thu July 14 - Clyde (a)
Sat July 16 - Everton (h)
Sat July 23 - Queen of the South (a)

Looks like Faddy will be back at Fir Park!

A newspaper report last week linked Terry Butcher with the manager's job at Hearts (yawn, yawn), however TB was quick to quash the speculation. He said:
"I am completely unaware of any interest from Hearts and this is news to me. I have not spoken to them. Indeed, there has been no contact. I do not need to apply for any managerial positions as I have a great job as manager of Motherwell and I am perfectly happy at this club. We have finished in the top six for the past two seasons and we got to the CIS Insurance Cup Final this season so I want to continue that level of improvement. I thoroughly enjoy my job and the Hearts thing is a non-starter. It is not something I am interested in or will lose sleep over thinking about. Hearts are a big club but this is all pie in the sky as far as I am concerned."

He went on to say:
"I thought I had seen it all in football with our win against Celtic last Sunday and Liverpool's European Cup victory on Wednesday night. What an incredible end to the season we've had. I was so proud to be an Englishman watching Liverpool at the top of the Euro tree again. This week especially has shown me that nothing is impossible in football."