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STV News
13-07-2025
- Sport
- STV News
Always surprises in football
Jens Berthel Askou was disappointed with his first result as Motherwell boss – but noted they were not the only top-flight team to struggle. In his first game in the Well technical area, the Dane watched his side draw 2-2 with Clyde in the Premier Sports Cup. Bully Wee striker James Hilton put the League Two side ahead after just 16 minutes and although a double from Tawanda Maswanhise had the Steelmen in front, Liam Scullion levelled in the 53rd minute with a header – with Motherwell taking the bonus point with a 5-4 penalty shoot-out win. Elsewhere, fellow William Hill Premiership side Dundee lost 1-0 at home to Airdrieonians in Steven Pressley's first game as boss of the Tayside club while St Mirren were held to a goalless draw at Arbroath and lost the penalty shoot-out. Ahead of the second group game at home to Peterhead on Tuesday, Askou told Well's official X account: 'It just shows how tricky football is in general. 'There'll always be surprises in football, especially in the cup tournaments, there will be things that don't go as expected. 'We didn't get the result we wanted, obviously. A few other clubs, as far as I've heard, didn't do that either. 'And that's just football in general. You have to be there on the day. 'I think in terms of effort and structure, we were good, in terms of intensity, I think we pressed them with the intensity. 'Every time we tried to press, they put the ball in behind. I think we should have dealt better with some of their direct play. 'That's something to improve on, definitely. And then it's about getting the tempo up, but I'm sure that Fir Park will give us the possibility to play at a much higher tempo.' Get all the latest news from around the country Follow STV News Scan the QR code on your mobile device for all the latest news from around the country
STV News
12-07-2025
- Sport
- STV News
Jens Berthel Askou happy with 'good amount to learn' from Motherwell draw
New Motherwell boss Jens Berthel Askou claimed there was a 'good amount of learning ' to take from his side's 2-2 Premier Sports Cup draw with Clyde at New Douglas Park. In his first game in the Well technical area, the Dane watched Bully Wee striker James Hilton put the League Two side ahead after just 16 minutes with a goal from distance. Fir Park attacker Tawanda Maswanhise scored twice to put the William Hill Premiership side ahead but Liam Scullion levelled in the 53rd minute and – with no more goals – the Steelmen took the bonus point with a 5-4 penalty shootout win. Askou told the club's official X account: 'Yeah, you can always look at it from two perspectives and say, 'yeah, it's not good enough, we didn't win – we should have won'. 'But we also knew that it could be really, really difficult and we weren't sharp enough in the moment. 'We had a big chance at the end where we could have closed the game down. 'The second goal they get is not good enough in terms of the standards that we want and then suddenly you have a result that's a little bit tricky and not what you want. 'But that's football. I'm sure that this game will not define the journey we are (on) with this club. 'But it was a good learning step in terms of dealing with a little bit of frustration, irritation, that it wasn't as fluent as we wanted to be and then how to deal with that and keep the body language positive and so in terms of that, there's a good amount of learning in it.' Get all the latest news from around the country Follow STV News Scan the QR code on your mobile device for all the latest news from around the country
Daily Record
12-07-2025
- Sport
- Daily Record
Clyde 2, Motherwell 2: Well take bonus point in shoot-out
Clyde 2, Motherwell 2: Well take bonus point in shoot-out Jens Berthel Askou's side couldn't get past their League Two opponents in 90 minutes Motherwell's Lukas Fadinger takes on Clyde's Logan Dunachie as the sides clashed in the Premier Sports Cup (Image: SNS Group ) Clyde and Motherwell battled out a draw in the Pre,ier Sports Cup, with the Steelmen taking the bonus point for winning the shoot-out 5-4. Andy Halliday, Callum Slattery, Elijah Just, Eseosu Sule and Tom Sparrow scored for the Steelmen. Tom Robson, Robbie Leitch, Shay Nevans and Kyle Fleming scored for Clyde, with Calum Ward saving from Logan Dunachie.. James Hilton put Clyde ahead in 16 minutes with a goal that Motherwell keeper Calum Ward won't want to see again. However, their lead lasted just five minutes before Tawanda Maswanhise levelled from close range after Callum Slattery had struck the crossbar. And the winger struck again three minutes into the second half to put Motherwell ahead. Article continues below However, that lasted only until the 53rd minute when Liam Scullion headed in a leveller for Clyde. The first half was fairly even, and while Motherwell were the better side, they didn't create a whole lot of chances. Clyde looked dangerous on the counter-attack and it was from one of those that they took the lead, when Hilton pounced on a botched clearance to net. But Motherwell went on the attack and got their reward soon after through Maswanhise. The second half was only three minutes old when Maswanhise sent a shot ripping high into the net. In a topsy-turvy game, however, Clyde ran up the other end and levelled through Liam Scullion. The sides couldn't be separated after that, and it took a penalty shoot-out to do so. Clyde boss Darren Young handed a competitive debut to new signings James Hilton and Sam Campbell. Clyde's James Hilton celebrates putting his side ahead (Image: SNS Group ) Motherwell manager Jens Berthel Askou gave competitive starts to new signings Elliott Watt and Lukas Fadinger. Motherwell snap up New Zealand winger as summer rebuild continues READ MORE: Motherwell had the ball in the net in eight minutes when Callum Slattery sent Apostolos Stamatelopoulos through on goal, and he sent a neat flick over Brian Kinnear, but was flagged offside. Clyde had their first shot on goal in 12 minutes but James Hilton's scuffed shot was comfortably taken by Calum Ward. But the hosts took the lead in 16 minutes when keeper Calum Ward kicked the ball straight to Hilton, who curled the ball over and past the stranded keeper. Motherwell's Tawanda Maswanhise celebrates his goals against Clyde (Image: SNS Group ) Motherwell levelled in 21 minutes when Slattery's ferocious shot smacked off the bar, and Tawanda Maswanhise netted the rebound from close range. Hilton tried his luck with another lob in 47 minutes, but this one flew over the bar. But Motherwell took the lead 60 seconds later when Maswanhise smashed an unstoppable shot high into the net, after a bit of pinball in the Clyde box. Liam Scullion heads Clyde back level at 2-2 (Image: SNS Group ) That lasted only until the 53rd minute when Marley Redfern raced down the left wing and his cross was headed in at the back post by Scullion. Slattery sent Maswanhise through on goal on the right in 70 minutes, but this time his shot was parried round the post by Kinnear. Clyde sub Robbie Leitch was unmarked at the back post in 77 minutes, but slashed his shot wide. CLYDE: Kinnear, Hynes, Dunachie, Campbell (Cuddihy, 76), Robson, Lyon, Murdoch, Scullion (Lyon, 85), Hilton (Leitch, 63), Redfern (Nevans, 85), Williamson (Fleming, 76) Subs (not used): Pazikas (GK) Booked: Lyon (37) Article continues below MOTHERWELL: Ward, Koutroumbis (Just, 62), Gordon, Balmer, O'Donnell (Sparrow, 83), Halliday, Watt, Slattery, Fadinger (Longelo, 62), Maswanhise (L. Ross, 83), Stamatelopoulos (Sule, 54) Subs (not used): Connelly (GK), McGinn, Wilson, Whyte Referee: Matthew MacDermid
Free Malaysia Today
20-06-2025
- Business
- Free Malaysia Today
Hays shares dive as permanent hiring falters amid fewer new job openings
Hays' shares fell as much as 20% to a 13-year low early today. (Shutterstock pic) LONDON : Recruiter Hays warned today that a reduction in new job openings recently and ongoing delays in hiring decisions would lead to a bigger-than-expected drop in profit for the year, knocking down its shares and those of European rivals. Hays said its profit for the year through June would fall more than 57% to around £45 million (US$60.3 million), hurt by broad weakness in permanent hiring as confidence among employers and job seekers was low due to economic uncertainty. Analysts were expecting £56.4 million, according to a company-compiled poll. US President Donald Trump has announced wide-ranging tariffs on trade partners, including the EU, and wants to reduce the US goods trade deficit with the EU that are making hiring decisions more challenging, even as trade talks continue. 'In previous quarters we've talked about softer markets and longer time to hire, but we have seen through this quarter a reduction in the new number of jobs coming through, as well as continued length and time to hire,' Hays CFO James Hilton said on a call with analysts. He added the British company's permanent business was probably about 10% behind where it was expected to be in the quarter. 'All in all, not a good start for earnings season of the staffing sector as the weakness in (permanent hiring) could impact also the gross margins of the other players,' ING analyst Marc Zwartsenburg said in a note. Hays' shares fell as much as 20% to a 13-year low early today before recovering some loses to trade 12.2% lower by 8.41am. Shares of rival recruiters PageGroup, Randstand, Robert Walters and Adecco fell between 3.5% and 8%. 'While Hays' biggest market, Germany, and the UK were the most challenging with permanent hiring, regions such as France, Belgium and Netherlands, also remained subdued,' Hilton said. However, temporary hiring and contracting was more resilient broadly, with the exception of Germany where temporary hiring was also weak because of exposure to the autos sector. Trump's levies are projected to slow Germany's growth in the near term and result in the loss of 90,000 jobs within a year. The country's auto sector, which relies heavily on exports to the American market, had already been in decline due to weak European demand and foreign competition.
Express Tribune
15-06-2025
- General
- Express Tribune
Laughter is strictly prohibited?
The writer is an educationist based in Kasur City. He can be reached at Listen to article The first synonymous idea of school that comes to mind is a place of strict discipline. All the moral policing at the early stages of the growth of a child is expected to be done within the school premises. Hence, came the term 'schooling' in public discourse, meaning discipline, reproof or reprimand. The success of educators and students is gauged by the pindrop silence in the classroom. Mentally engaged students, no doubt, show that the class is busy in the learning process. But absence of comic relief can turn teaching and learning into something insipid, boring and uninspiring. In the mad pursuit of lesson plans, deadlines, exams, attendance and discipline, the first casualty is the loss of smiles within the school perimeter. We must not forget that the distinguished feature of Mr Chipping's teaching in James Hilton's novella, Goodbye, Mr Chips, is his humour. Students at the Brookfield School waited anxiously for Mr Chips' latest joke that would become talk of the town at the school. The students never thought of missing his class. The educationists with a formalist approach towards education speculate that to make students laugh blurs the boundary of proprieties between an educator and his learners. Laughter encourages frankness which sooner or later ends in cheekiness among students. However, to laugh at students and with students are two diametrically opposed approaches and often the difference between the two is obliterated to mask the educators' lack of proficiency in their subjects and failure in bonding with their students. Research has shown that students learn much more in the pleasant classroom milieu than in that where sternness prevails. Care must be taken that laughter should not be at the expense of a student's self-respect. What is learnt in untargeted humour gets etched on memory. Students don't have to memorise and revise to regurgitate in the exams. Humour is needed to transform bland traditional decantation of knowledge into experiential learning which our education system is severely lacking in. Run-of-the-mill pedagogy promotes absenteeism among students and widens the communication gap between an educator and his students, whereas according to Victor Borge, "Laughter is the shortest distance between two people." Teachers are required to act as the dispensers of information. Have we ever asked ourselves, "Did I laugh today? Were there smiles on my students' faces? Or were there just smirks all around?" Charlie Chaplin says, "A day without laughter is a day wasted." Children are known to laugh like there is no tomorrow, but now the taunt of "act mature" has shrunk childhood and caused the earlier onset of adulthood anxieties. The grind of the school routine, the taxing burden of coaching centres and truckloads of homework have left students with little space for moments of reflexive delight and mirth. The robotic routine has pushed children towards binge watching reels and shorts. It has mutated laughter from being a group enjoyment to a personal engagement, justified with the need for privacy. The universal human language of laughter, consisting of words with short vowel-like syllables "ha-ha", "ho-ho" or "hee-hee", is on the verge of extinction in this age of production hysteria. Biologically speaking, a laugh makes the brain release endorphins, the body's natural pain relievers and mood boosters, which make the human mind more receptive to and retentive of learning. Laughs and smiles don't weaken the authority of teachers; rather they build trust and enhance approachability – the prerequisites for a milieu enabling students to speak their hearts out and ask questions which if remain unanswered muddle the mind. Comic relief saves students from burnouts, too. Bereft of all zinger, quip and riposte to parry cheeky questions, the self-deprecating touché and mea culpa, however, demystify authority and burst the angelic halo of teachers, humanising their role and presence in the classroom. Students can forget formulae, equations or grammar rules, but what they can't is the teacher who made them smile and the moments wherein they laughed away the stress of the school grind. It is said that "a day you didn't laugh is a day you didn't live."
