Football Talk: The Stuart McCall Experience and a rom-com blockbuster

Stuart McCall wants to snatch hope away from destitute Panathinaikos.© SNS Group

Far be it from Football Talk to make judgment on such things, but it’s pretty funny to see little Motherwell metaphorically waving a wad of tenners in the face of 20-times Greek champions Panathinaikos.

In a pre-match chat which ramped up the pressure on the empty-pocketed Athenians, Stuart McCall stopped short of spitting on the floor and telling them: “See that? That’s your swimming pool, that is.”

Speaking of hard up, SPL chief Neil Doncaster and Celtic’s Peter Lawwell are holidaying at home due to the recession.

The loved-up pair flew to London to take in a show, ride the London Eye, beg television companies for money and pitch a script for a rom-com featuring the unlikely coming together of a hardened silver fox executive and the fish-out-of-water Englishman whose eyes meet across the corridors of Hampden.

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