Motherwell supporters’ team Fir Park Corner win the Scottish and British League titles

May 19 2011 by Andrew McGilvray, Hamilton Advertiser

MOTHERWELL supporters’ team Fir Park Corner demolished rivals Clyde in a 10-minute scoring spree to lift both the IFA Scottish and British League titles at the weekend.

The title wins were Fir Park Corner’s first since forming 10 years ago, and they became the first Scottish club to win the British crown.

Despite being down as an ‘away’ fixture the match took place at Ferniegair, meaning their ‘hosts’ were further travelled.

Fir Park Corner settled into the game and broke the deadlock in 28 minutes when Paul McArthur played a one-two with Stuart Jack before bursting into the box and drilling into the bottom corner.

Two minutes later McArthur turned provider when his cross deflected off a Clyde defender and into the path of Craig Anderson, who nodded home from close range.

The title party started in earnest a minute later when Davie Tonner’s slide-rule pass released McArthur, who held off a defender before beating the keeper at his near post with an angled drive.

In the 35th minute Scott Anderson’s tricky wing play saw him charge to the goal line before whipping in a cross for stand-in captain Tonner, who powered a shot home from close range.

Tonner returned the favour as half-time approached when his close-range shot fell into the path of Scott Anderson, who tapped home.

After the break play eased off and FPC coach David Fraser took the chance to make a few changes.

The Motherwell side grabbed their sixth of the afternoon on the hour-mark when McArthur’s corner eluded everyone but dipped at the back post for Tonner to bullet a header into the roof of the net, lifting him back to the top of the Scottish league scorers’ chart.

Substitute Martin Hendrie completed the scoring for Fir Park Corner with a speculative back-post cross which deceived the keeper, who could only palm the ball into the back of the net.

Clyde grabbed a late consolation strike and could have had a second but for a fine save bySteven Glenny.

Fir Park Corner have won the Scottish title with two games to spare and were unbeaten in the British League after 19 wins and a draw.

The Motherwell side still have a British Cup quarter-final away to Kidderminster to contend with and will receive their championship trophies at a ceremony at Worldnet in Leeds this July.