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Open Goal - Football Show

Jens Berthel Askou | Open Goal Meets... Motherwell Gaffer

Open Goal - Football Show

Fitba Media Ltd

Sports, Soccer, Football, News, Sports News

4.82.4K Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2026

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

What a Glen's Vodka Manager Of The Month interview we have for you this week! The one Si Ferry has been waiting on as he sits down with the Motherwell Manager, Jens Berthel Askou to celebrate his Scottish Premiership award for February and to discuss his revolutionary season at Fir Park!


We get an insight into the incredible football he's brought to this Motherwell side, his aspirations for the future and his own footballing journey that inspired his Managerial approach!


Not one to miss!


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0:00.0

Yes, huge welcome to our guest this week, the Glens Vodka SPFL, Scottish Premiership Manager

0:12.2

the month for February, Gens, Bethel, Aske, Berthel.

0:15.7

Yeah, good enough for me.

0:17.2

I just call you the mother well manager, mate.

0:19.2

I need to say as well, I'm going to get slaughtered to this, but I absolutely love you.

0:22.7

Just to let you know.

0:24.3

I do, mate, I love you. You're like a breath of fresh year for Scottish football. Thank you. I've been coaching this country for seven years. Ange possecoggle, probably one. you're the second one where I'm looking at your team and going

0:35.6

what can we do?

0:37.2

No copy it but what can we take for them and take into our team

0:39.8

and you've actually helped us massively this year. You've obviously let us into coming to mother well. So just what I say, thanks very much. Well, it was good to have you. I'm happy that we've done something that has, you know, inspired a little bit. Do you get a lot of that from people?

0:54.7

Do people say that too, that you have kind of inspired them?

0:56.7

Because even my son who's 13 loves watching Mother well and was a Celtic fan but loves

1:00.0

watching Mother-O.

1:00.9

Obviously we get a lot of positive feedback from our fan base and from people around the club

1:09.2

that they really enjoy what we're doing and

1:13.6

obviously here and there as a coach also coming to us but you know it goes both ways

1:20.6

there's a lot of inspiration for me as well to to pick up everywhere I go yeah I wanted to ask

1:26.6

you about you as a person how are you enjoying living in Scotland? Do you live in Motherwell? I live in Glasgow. Right, nice. Yeah, I love it. So the funny thing is, I was in Faroe Islands for a year. And I think some of the nature, especially in the northern part of Scotland, is quite similar to Faroe Islands, a lot of hills.

1:46.0

So do you go hill walking?

1:47.0

I don't do enough but I would like to get up north now and then and go hill walk.

1:53.0

I think you can probably do it not too far from here.

1:57.0

But I really enjoy the nature.

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