'Show us your medals, That still works for me

Boss Kettlewell wants his Well players to think big...

- FRASER WILSON

STUART KETTLEWELL carries an old-fashioned measure around that’ll cut any footballer with a high opinion of themselves down to size: “Show us your medals”. 

He admits it’s an attitude that draws sneers now but it’s one he’s drumming into his Motherwell players as he urges them to go and achieve something special this season.

Well can clinch their place in the last 16 of the Viaplay Cup with a win over East Fife at Fir Park tomorrow and victory would see them progress as seeds for the second-round draw.

Kettlewell won the Challenge Cup and Championship as a player with Ross County – and the same double as a manager in Dingwall – as well as being a sub when the Staggies lost the Scottish Cup Final to Dundee United in 2010.

But his attention now is firmly on the League Cup and he insists he’s in it to win it as he urged his Steelmen to show their mettle.

Kettlewell, who revealed Jon Obika and Stephen O’Donnell are injury doubts, said: “Every club is in it to win it.

“It’s simple, how many trophies have you won? How many successes have you been part of?