Celtic manager Tony Mowbray is hoping Scott Brown will be fit for Saturday's Clydesdale Bank Premier League game with Motherwell. Rapid recovery: Celtic midfielder Scott Brown against Rapid Vienna Photo: REUTERS Midfield dynamo Brown pulled out of the Scotland squad for Saturday's friendly defeat in Japan because of continued discomfort on the ankle he had surgery on in May. That followed a visit to a Harley Street expert, who prescribed a period of rest for the 24-year-old. Mowbray also revealed summer signing Marc-Antoine Fortune was close to returning from the knee injury which has sidelined the striker for seven weeks. He said: "I hope Scott is going to be OK for the Motherwell game. "We've been nursing him through the last few weeks and he needed a break. We wanted to give him a rest and the specialist felt that would... [read full story]
