'I'd hit my breaking point' – Stuart Kettlewell speaks out on Motherwell exit and responds to Clement comment

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After Rangers’ Scottish Cup humiliation at the hands of Queen’s Park, Philippe Clement highlighted Stuart Kettlewell’s troubled end to his time as Motherwell manager.But the former Steelmen boss didn’t interpret Clement’s words to mean one man was possessed of a stronger mentality than another in the same profession by virtue of standing his ground in defiance of the critics.

Because Kettlewell would like it to be known that nothing that occurred in the lead up to him leaving Fir Park, or which has happened since he stepped aside, has had any effect whatsoever on his mental health.The man who has now been replaced by Michael Wimmer at the Lanarkshire club – after he and his family suffered excessive abuse from a minority percentage of the Well support – actually believes he is a better manager, and a stronger person, because of what took place over the course of this season.“I want to make it clear I’m okay,” Stuart told Record Sport when we sat down to pore over the move he made to voluntarily give up his job and the salary that provided for his family. “Mental health is a major issue in modern life and I sometimes wonder what would happen if a football manager walked into an office or stepped on to a building site to harangue people there over the kind of job they were doing.“I’ve spent a fair bit of time in Philippe’s company since he arrived in Scotland.

I know him to be a decent man who comes in for a level of criticism which is, in my opinion, over the top.“Is it more noble to stay in your job under those circumstances?

I did what I did because everyone has a different breaking point. If I had been a single man I might have been inclined to turn the other cheek where the abuse was concerned.