Likes: Motherwell stand in the way of Celtic making Scottish football history - no team has ever done the treble two seasons running.
Motherwell stand in the way of Celtic making Scottish football history - no team has ever done the treble two seasons running.
'...a violator of his word, a libertine over head and ears in debt and disgrace, a despiser of domestic ties, the companion of gamblers and demireps, a man who has just closed half a century without a single claim on the gratitude of his country or the respect of posterity...' - Leigh Hunt on the Prince Regent (later George IV).
I suspect that no team in history has ever faced quite such a great disparity in wealth and quality between them and their rivals (I don't just mean Motherwell, but the whole of Scottish professional football).
That's true - Rangers have some catching up to do both on the pitch and especially in the piggy bank.
I can think of only two other major footballing nations where only two clubs traditionally dominated throughout their history of league football - Uruguay with Peñarol/Nacional and Portugal with Benfica/Sporting Club, although Porto have been the big boys in Portugal over the last thirty years.
'...a violator of his word, a libertine over head and ears in debt and disgrace, a despiser of domestic ties, the companion of gamblers and demireps, a man who has just closed half a century without a single claim on the gratitude of his country or the respect of posterity...' - Leigh Hunt on the Prince Regent (later George IV).
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