Premier League, Pittodrie. (17/11/12)
This could be tense - excruciating, even - although it’s magic for Aberdeen to be involved in a game that might put them top of the league.
The massively disappointing defeat at Ross County was (more or less) wiped from the collective memory by the nature of the emphatic win against St Mirren last weekend, so we’re looking good.
(And beating St Mirren was particularly satisfying given the way they so recently cheated their way to victory in a League Cup quarter-final win at Pittodrie. Four penalties? With barely a couple of minutes between them? Really? Is it any wonder we complain about west coast bias? The game’s ****ed in Scotland. You couldn’t make this stuff up.)
With Hibs away next weekend, these two games – starting with Celtic - are fairly crucial if we want to maintain the pretence that we’re seriously challenging for the league. Which we do. And who can blame us?
Well, Craig Brown can, apparently: “Aberdeen are emphatically not title-contenders. I want to nip this nonsense in the bud,” he more or less told dismayed journalists who were wondering, on the back of the 4-1 win at St mirren and due to the fact that we were so close to the top of the league, if Aberdeen were genuine title-contenders with miracle-worker Brown at the helm? You can feel fairly certain that if we lose against Celtic and Hibs these same people will be wondering if Craig Brown is the right man for the job and asking if there is any way back for the “sleeping giant” in the north (or variants upon a similar, sappingly cliched theme).
Anyway, somewhat confusingly, Brown later called on Aberdeen fans to be more positive. From the BBC:
"The glass is always half empty here - Paul Lawrie didn't win The Open, you know, Jean van de Velde lost it - that's the kind of mentality up in the north east of Scotland."
And quite right, too.
"I'm from the west and in the west it's far more positive. The Hamilton and the Motherwell teams always thought they were going to win, up here you always think you're going to lose.”
Correct.
Prediction: Aberdeen 2 Celtic 1
Attendance prediction: Tricky. 16,083. (May be subject to last-minute change.)
I'll be out all day tomorrow (from about 11.30 onwards) and will miss everything. There is little, if any, justice in this world.
This could be tense - excruciating, even - although it’s magic for Aberdeen to be involved in a game that might put them top of the league.
The massively disappointing defeat at Ross County was (more or less) wiped from the collective memory by the nature of the emphatic win against St Mirren last weekend, so we’re looking good.
(And beating St Mirren was particularly satisfying given the way they so recently cheated their way to victory in a League Cup quarter-final win at Pittodrie. Four penalties? With barely a couple of minutes between them? Really? Is it any wonder we complain about west coast bias? The game’s ****ed in Scotland. You couldn’t make this stuff up.)
With Hibs away next weekend, these two games – starting with Celtic - are fairly crucial if we want to maintain the pretence that we’re seriously challenging for the league. Which we do. And who can blame us?
Well, Craig Brown can, apparently: “Aberdeen are emphatically not title-contenders. I want to nip this nonsense in the bud,” he more or less told dismayed journalists who were wondering, on the back of the 4-1 win at St mirren and due to the fact that we were so close to the top of the league, if Aberdeen were genuine title-contenders with miracle-worker Brown at the helm? You can feel fairly certain that if we lose against Celtic and Hibs these same people will be wondering if Craig Brown is the right man for the job and asking if there is any way back for the “sleeping giant” in the north (or variants upon a similar, sappingly cliched theme).
Anyway, somewhat confusingly, Brown later called on Aberdeen fans to be more positive. From the BBC:
"The glass is always half empty here - Paul Lawrie didn't win The Open, you know, Jean van de Velde lost it - that's the kind of mentality up in the north east of Scotland."
And quite right, too.
"I'm from the west and in the west it's far more positive. The Hamilton and the Motherwell teams always thought they were going to win, up here you always think you're going to lose.”
Correct.
Prediction: Aberdeen 2 Celtic 1
Attendance prediction: Tricky. 16,083. (May be subject to last-minute change.)
I'll be out all day tomorrow (from about 11.30 onwards) and will miss everything. There is little, if any, justice in this world.
Itbeing the 'game'!
