Brown confirmed at Motherwell for rest of season

You'd have to have a very hard heart indeed not to be pleased for Craig Brown.

A month ago, he was reduced to chatting about potential Scotland managers over a coffee. Now the 69 year old, who'd given up any hope of working in management again, is in charge at Motherwell, and making a decent fist of it, alongside faithful assistant Archie Knox.

He only got the chance after Jim Gannon's sacking, and he's the antithesis of his predecessor - old not young, self-assuming rather than self-possessed, and inclusive instead of devisive. One of his key decisions has been to bring captain Stephen Craigan back in from the cold, after his public falling out with Gannon. Motherwell seems a happier, more cohesive camp these days.

Who knows what will happen in the summer, but chairman John Boyle will probably think twice before chopping him in for someone else.