Bank of Scotland Premierleague - League Table 02/03
P W D L F A PTS
1 RANGERS 24 20 3 1 68 18 63
2 CELTIC 24 19 3 2 63 16 60
3 HEARTS 24 10 7 7 40 41 37
4 DUNFERMLINE ATHLETIC 23 11 3 9 39 41 36
5 HIBERNIAN 24 10 4 10 36 36 34
6 KILMARNOCK 24 9 6 9 26 36 33
7 DUNDEE 24 6 7 11 28 39 25
8 PARTICK THISTLE 24 5 9 10 25 37 24
9 ABERDEEN 24 5 9 10 21 38 24
10 LIVINGSTON 24 6 5 13 31 36 23
11 MOTHERWELL 23 4 6 13 28 41 18 12 DUNDEE UNITED 24 3 8 13 20 46 17
results after the winter lockdown
yeah atlast Motherwell is off the bottom, if we can keep the pace up then hopefuly we can escape the religation zone all together.
and it looks like Mc Fadden is staying at the Well too WOOT.
MOTHERWELL have rejected Preston\'s renewed bid to sign promising attacker James McFadden.
The Lilywhites had an offer for the teenage Scottish international rejected in the summer and were told to up their bid.
The First Division outfit\'s manager Craig Brown confirmed an improved offer had been lodged with Motherwell, who rate McFadden in the £2.5 million category.
"I can confirm that earlier this week the chairman sent a written bid to Motherwell," Brown told the club\'s official website.
"It is a considerable offer and is big money for this club. It is an improved offer on the one we made earlier in the season and one which we think is a fair valuation for one of Scotland\'s up-and-coming players."
But \'Well chief Terry Butcher has laughed off the latest offer, insisting Preston are still no nearer to matching his valuation of the highly-rated forward.
"It\'s absolutely nowhere near our valuation of the player," said Butcher. "It is the second time they have put in a bid, but again they are absolutely nowhere near what we consider to be his value.
"It\'s entirely up to them what they do next and we can\'t prevent people making bids because it\'s out of our control.
"But we obviously have our own thoughts about the value of the player and we consider that value to be very high. Their valuation comes nowhere near ours, it\'s as simple as that.
"We are under no pressure to sell the player and it would have to be a very, very good offer to justify it to our supporters and to the club."
McFadden is one of the hottest properties in the SPL and has notched nine goals this season as \'Well battle for survival.
But the 19-year-old has suffered disciplinary problems this term, picking up ten yellow cards and being sent off in Thursday\'s draw with Partick.
However, North End chief Brown will be hoping he can iron out that fault if \'Well accept his fresh bid although he could face stern competition to capture McFadden.
Premiership side Everton have been monitoring McFadden\'s progress while Bayer Leverkusen were interested in the youngster but baulked at the price tag.
SFA TO INVESTIGATE MANAGERS
9 Jan 2003 21:35
FOUR Scottish Premier League managers have been summoned to attend a discplinary hearing next month to account for critical comments made about referees.
Rangers\' Alex McLeish, Hearts\' Craig Levein, Dunfermline\'s Jimmy Calderwood and Motherwell\'s Terry Butcher will have their remarks made to referees examined by the Scottish Football Association on 27 February.
Butcher and McLeish will be asked to explain comments about referee Willie Young following a match between their clubs.
Dunfermline manager Calderwood has been contacted about comments following a Celtic versus Dunfermline game about Stuart Dougal.
"There have been a number of cases over the Christmas-New Year period which have come to our attention and the committee have decided that they should be further investigated," said an SFA spokesman.
"Obviously we\'ve got to ask them if the comments are accurately attributed.
"The regulation is there not to ban free speech or anything, but to protect everybody involved in football.
"The committee has got to curb that kind of criticism before it gets out of hand.
"At the same time we are sympathetic and know that there is a lot of passion and pressure in the game.
"It\'s just recently there has been an awful lot of criticism of referees and there are proper channels to make a complaint about a referee\'s performance."
and news just in, the SFA is investigating Terry Butcher, our manager is being investigated along with others over a critasisms over Referees.
Pfffttt come on lets face it most ref\'s can cock-it up with the best of them.
