THERE may have been times during a tumultuous start to his first-team management career that Steven Hammell has pined for the relatively peaceful sanctuary of his old job, heading up Motherwell’s youth academy.
Not that Hammell was ever one to be able to switch off from that role either, mind you. But having now taken the plunge into frontline management at Fir Park, it was important to Hammell that a project he has poured his heart and soul into for the best part of five years was being left in capable hands.
With the appointment of his old Motherwell teammate David Clarkson, he is certain that it has been. Former Fir Park forward Clarkson, like Hammell, is well and truly in with the bricks at Motherwell, and so recognises just how key the production of their own talent is to the club.
