Growing up idolising a homegrown hero who would soon break the local transfer record was always going to do it for David Clarkson. ‌

Coming through the same Motherwell youth system to launch a successful career himself just rubber stamped it. ‌

A love for the club that he admits - now he’s in charge of that hugely successful academy - can be TOO strong at times. ‌

As a kid Clarkson marvelled as his uncle Phil O’Donnell worked his magic in the claret and amber. He would later have the thrill of sharing a pitch and dressing room with the man who became Motherwell’s record sale at £1.75m to Celtic in 1994.

It would, of course, come to an end in the most tragic of circumstances. The memory of that awful afternoon in late December 2007 will never leave Clarkson who scored twice in

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