Hammell wants place in Motherwell history

17 April 2011 20:00

Stevie Hammell is regularly reminded about the last time Motherwell won the Scottish Cup and will use that as inspiration in the final against Celtic next month.

The Lanarkshire club crushed St Johnstone 3-0 in Saturday's semi-final at Hampden to reach the show-piece occasion for the first time since the 4-3 extra-time win over Dundee United 20 years ago.

Hammell sees photographs of that famous victory every time he reports to Fir Park and he believes it is time he and his team mates joined them. "If you win the Scottish Cup you become legends," the Well defender said.

"We are one game away and we don't want it to be 'well done, you got to the final' hard luck story.

"We are looking to go and win it and go down in history.

"The pictures from 1991 are everywhere at the club. You can't get away from them. It shows you how much it means to the club, it was 20 years ago and people still talk about it as if it was yesterday.

"That could be us.

"As a defender, when you look up and see the boys sticking the ball away then there is not a nicer sight in the game.

"We knew it was a high-pressure game so a couple of early goals definitely helped us."

"Everyone keeps telling us it is 20 years since we won it so if we won it would be a dream come true, and if we are on our game we can match anybody in the league."

Source: PA