United must be desperate if they want mad Mohsni
WHEN it comes to the big games, the
Daily Mail digital boys don’t mess around. MailOnline like their match reports bang on the final whistle. So it was, then, that the 2015 SPFL Premiership play-off final second leg between Motherwell and Rangers began with a request for 900 words the moment the game ended. And not a minute later. In this line of work, that’s not unusual. On another day, in another place, it’s no big deal. But this was the day Motherwell secured their Premiership status for another season with a comfortable 3-0 victory. A day when the finger was poised over the ‘send’ button when a roar went up. And what followed resembled a re-enactment of the Poll Tax riots. Fans were on the pitch. And there, punching and kicking Motherwell striker Lee Erwin like Bruce Lee in his heyday, was Rangers defender Bilel Mohsni. The Tunisian had to be forcibly frogmarched to the dressing room, but cut loose long enough to leave the team bus and challenge Erwin to a square go in the car park. It’s three years since he earned a seven-match ban for the madness of that day. He has since had three clubs, racking up just 1,350 minutes of competitive football. And he’s been a free agent since September. Despite this, the 30-year-old is now training with Dundee United. That United are in a desperate state is no state secret. Last weekend, Stephen Thompson stood down from the board. The training ground has been sold to the pension fund of new chairman Mike Martin to raise cash flow. The club have announced a fresh loss of £1million. And they lie 17 points behind Championship leaders St Mirren. With every passing day, the fuse burns down a little further. But things can never be so desperate that they need to throw a ticking timebomb like Mohsni on the fire.