Motherwell chairman John Boyle says the Fir Park pitch could be unavailable for the next month in a bid to solve the waterlogging problem.Boyle expects tenants Gretna to play their match against Celtic in the SPL next weekend at a different venue, and suggested Livingston's Almondvale or Hamilton's New Douglas Park could be suitable.

Motherwell will also have to find alternative venues for their forthcoming home fixtures.

They had to postpone their own SPL game against Celtic when an attempt to drain the pitch of water made the problem worse.

Boyle told BBC Radio Scotland: "We have a very serious problem and I'm going to address it fundamentally in order that we can get our games on.

"Fans need certainty, we haven't been giving them this. I am on the case.

"[Motherwell secretary] Stewart Robertson and myself are talking to [Scottish Premier League secretary] Iain Blair.

"I think what we are going to have to do is that we're going to have to drastically take some action which will not be able to be done in days.

"And in the light of that, we're going to try to relocate some of our fixtures, so that the fans and especially the away fans have some certainty about the remaining fixtures.

"This might take three to four weeks to sort out.

"Every short-term measure we have tried to take clearly hasn't worked and we are hugely embarrassed and absolutely apologetic to the fans."

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