Conor's a great guy..but one heavy touch and he'll be emptied

Brodie's Buddie had a front-row seat for cap high but row Z beckons

- FRASER WILSON

BRODIE SPENCER will forever be grateful to Conor McMenamin for making him feel at home on his first Northern Ireland call-up last year.

But Motherwell's teenage full-back has warned the St Mirren winger there'll be no welcome mat rolled out when he arrives for the battle between second and third in Lanarkshire.

The on-loan Huddersfeld kid even jokes he'll EMPTY his pal into row Z if he tries his fancy stuff at Fir Park.

The duo have struck up a solid friendship stretching back to their days at Cliftonville when Spencer was coming through the youth ranks and McMenamin was tearing up the Irish League in the first team.

They returned from international duty in Slovenia and Kazakhstan earlier this week and will go directly head to head at Fir Park today.

And Spencer said: "I've known Conor for quite a number of years after being at Cliftonville with him.