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Our cinch Premiership match with Aberdeen will go ahead.

Following a 10am pitch inspection at Fir Park, the match official has ruled the surface is playable.

Kick-off is at 3pm.

The Motherwell boss discusses the changes at our cinch Premiership opponents, and how the team need to focus on what they excel at before worrying about a difference in style from the Dons.

Bevis Mugabi has signed a new deal with the club.

The defender has extended his stay at Motherwell until the summer of 2024.

“We’re delighted that Bevis has committed himself to us for the next two seasons,” Motherwell boss Graham Alexander said.

“He’s been a constant in our team, and even though we have seen a great improvement from him over the last 12 months, we still believe there’s more to come from him.

“He’s a great character to have at our club and he wants to win.”

The popular Ugandan defender first joined the club in September 2019, initially on a short-term deal.

Establishing himself as a key figure, he has since gone on make 62 appearances in claret and amber, and become a regular at international level.

Our club exists to improve people’s lives, and for the benefit of our community.

That is why Motherwell Football Club stands shoulder to shoulder with the families of the 97 Liverpool FC supporters who lost their lives at Hillsborough on 15 April 1989 and why we are proud to pledge our support to the Hillsborough Law Now campaign.

The campaign, formed by the Hillsborough families and survivors of the tragedy, calls for a change to the legal system in England and Wales to prevent others going through what the close relatives of the 97 have – and continue to – experience in their quest for justice.

Supported by Mayor Steve Rotheram of the Liverpool City Region and Andy Burnham, Mayor of Greater Manchester, the new law proposes to compel all public officials to be truthful at inquiries into public tragedies or disaster situations, while also offering bereaved families better access to financial resources for legal representation at inquests.

In greater detail, the campaign calls for:

• A charter for families bereaved through public tragedy which should be binding on all public bodies.

• A statutory duty of candour on all police officers – and other public servants – which applies during all forms of public inquiry and criminal investigation.

• Proper participation of bereaved families at inquests, through publicly-funded legal representation and an end to limitless legal spending by bodies. Parity of legal funding would at least create a level playing field in courtrooms.

• A public advocate to act for families of the deceased after major incidents.

Motherwell Football Club becomes the first club in Scotland to support the campaign, following in the footsteps of our counterparts at Liverpool FC, Everton FC, Brighton & Hove Albion FC and Tranmere Rovers FC.

Motherwell FC chairman Jim McMahon said: “As the UK’s first fully fan-owned top-flight club, we are proud to stand in solidarity with the families who lost their loved ones at, or as a result of, the tragic events of football’s darkest day.

“The dignity with which the families have carried themselves represents everything anyone needs to know about them and the people of the city of Liverpool.

“Although we accept this is a devolved matter, and some of the detail is already relevant in Scots Law at a Fatal Accident Inquiry, we call on the UK government to give serious consideration to adopting Hillsborough Law and to ensure that the football fans who weren’t able to return home, or those who have suffered terribly in the aftermath of that fateful day, at least have a legacy of ensuring their injustice is unlikely to be repeated.”

Enjoying a regular run in the first team and earning himself a new contract, Barry Maguire feared the worst when he suffered injury against Hearts recently.

Buckling in a challenge, he immediately worried that he had suffered a serious knee injury, precisely at the time he was making his spot in the side his own.

Thankfully, his injury wasn’t as severe as feared, and the youth academy graduate is on the road back to recovery in the gym at Fir Park.

Graham Alexander has been given a two-game touchline ban.

Our manager has been issued with a suspension by the Scottish FA after being sent off in our recent match with Hibernian.

An additional one-match ban has been suspended until the end of the current season.

Alexander will be absent from the touchline now for our next two cinch Premiership matches with Aberdeen and Rangers.

Motherwell’s match against Rangers, scheduled to take place on Sunday 20 February, has been postponed.

This is due to players within the Rangers squad being away on international duty.

A rearranged date and kick off time for the game will be communicated in due course.

Defender Claire Crosbie has left Motherwell after her contract was cancelled by mutual consent.

The centre back, who made 13 appearances this season in claret and amber, scored twice this campaign and leaves after joining the club in the summer. 

The club wishes Claire well for the future.

We’ll face Hibernian in the quarter-final of the 2021/22 Scottish Cup.

The match will be played at Fir Park on the weekend of 12 March 2022.

The date and kick-off time will be confirmed shortly.

Motherwell progressed with victory over Aberdeen on Saturday, while Hibs defeated Arbroath to make the last eight.

2021/22 Scottish Cup quarter-final draw

Hearts v St Mirren

Dundee United v Celtic

Dundee v Rangers

Motherwell v Hibernian

We’re proud to launch the brand new Motherwell FC girls academy.

After numerous trials over the past four weeks, our foundations are now in place for young players to come through from the academy to first-team level. 

Head of women and girl’s performance Paul Brownlie, who joined the club in May 2021, was hired in a joint role of both coaching our first team and overhauling our pathway for female players.

Having guided his side to fifth place in the SWPL1 table so far this season, his work behind the scenes is now also coming to the fore.

“We are finally in the position to launch the new girls academy at Motherwell Football Club,” Paul Brownlie said. 

“Behind the scenes at Fir Park, we have worked extremely hard to make sure that we had everything in place before the launch.

“All players went through an extensive trial process, making sure we got the right players. With the full support of our Community Trust here at Motherwell, we feel we are now in the best position to move to the next level with the academy.”

The new academy structure will have teams representing at Under 11, 12s, 14s, 16s and 18s levels. These five age groups will have teams playing at regional and national performance level. 

“This is a new direction from the football club and one which fully integrates the Girls Academy into the football club,” Brownlie added.  

“Our approach will be to develop elite female players who can represent Motherwell at first-team level.

“Building the right pathway will be crucial to the success we want to build here. Within the pathway, it’s important that standards are maintained across the board. 

“Motherwell’s boys academy has a terrific reputation for developing young players and carrying that success over to the girls equivalent will be paramount to our success of developing players who can compete at the top level.

“It is now the responsibility of the coaches to make sure we develop each player to the best of their ability and that’s a challenge I know the coaches are looking forward to.”