There;s a clue in the playing career of Graham Alexander that he doesn't feel the need to man the panic station at times of high anxiety. As a nerveless penalty kick specialist he scored 61 goals from spot, the Motherwell boss isn't the type to make a drama out of a crisis.
Despite a Europa Conference League salvage mission facing his team in Sligo tomorrow night, the former Scotland defender prefers to describe the challenge as just another game of football. Aidan Keena's strike for the League of Ireland side last Thursday has Well walking a tightrope ahead of their second-round, second-leg qualifier but Alexander has stripped the challenge back to the basics.
He said: " What I always try to do when I was a player, as a manager, first games of the season, play-off semi-finals, play-off finals, cup finals... I always break it down to a game of football. When I was a player in the fourth division or Premier League, or an international, I broke it down to a game of football. Eleven players v eleven players, two goals and a football.
