Watching this on iPlayer and had forgotten just how formidable a team they were.
Great to watch the ugly sisters getting bossed in Cup Finals and League deciders.
However at around 1hour 20 minutes, the pick of the bunch. When Fergies teams luck runs out, the 1986 Cup Final. Against the Famous. Who are just about to wrap up League and Cup double glory. Hang on, there must be something wrong with my set, this is not history as Medals Mackay would have us believe.......
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21-05-2020 12:13 PM #1
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Aberdeen team , the Fergie years
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21-05-2020 03:35 PM #2
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Remember Hibs played them in 1984(?), first game of the season. Dons were awesome back then and massive favourites to beat us. No chance. Willie Irvine (the first one and my hero back then) delivered a deadly double to sink them.
Also recall watching Meadowbank play the Fergies team around 1984 at Meadowbank in the league Cup. Think Dons won 4-1 (?) Some team back then. Bankies did well though.
Good Times
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21-05-2020 05:46 PM #3
I know this is an age thing. Can anyone remember Pittodrie mid/ late 70s when the game was abandoned/ delayed due to fog ? In those days we were behind the goals ( at the far side) and I have had a big disagreement with a mate who said it never happened. I’m adamant he was there and on the pitch with me.
For younger readers you have to realise these were the days when you left about 9am on the supporters buses with enough bevvy to last a weekend. 😀😀
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Was it abandoned, I thought they just played on?
We were down the front behind the goal and could just see beyond the 18 yard line. Ball came from nowhere for an Aberdeen goal.
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21-05-2020 06:07 PM #5
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Talking about Aberdeen, their new kits look horrendous
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22-05-2020 10:18 AM #7
This was an era when there was precious little televised football. I remember listening to them playing an English team on the radio, during a European run, Ipswich Town maybe, who were a decent side although maybe just past their peak.
My strongest memory is the 1982 Scottish Cup Final, one of the few games that were televised back in the day. Aberdeen against Rangers, 1-1 at full-time so it went to extra time and Aberdeen won 4-1.
Alex McLeish scored Aberdeen’s first, an exquisite chip from the edge of the box. He won’t have scored a better goal than that. He may not have scored another goal than thatThere's only one thing better than a Hibs calendar and that's two Hibs calendars
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22-05-2020 10:40 AM #8
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22-05-2020 10:50 AM #9
Ferguson obviously did a brilliant job up there but it's also one of the few times in Scottish football when a club has been rich enough to withstand Celtc or one of the Rangers buying their best players.
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22-05-2020 11:25 AM #13
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22-05-2020 12:57 PM #18
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My recollection of that time isn't that Aberdeen spent a lot of money - it's just that there was less money around generally and that it was a much more even playing field. Aberdeen and Dundee United had great managers and coaches and flourished by playing good young Scottish players. It's just a shame Hibs were so dreadful at this time - another wasted opportunity, as Rangers were hopeless and Celtic were inconsistent - finishing 5th in the league one season.
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22-05-2020 01:19 PM #19
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It's also true there wasn't as much money around. The Old Huns spent a lot doing up Ibrox around that time and Celtic still had their biscuit tin mentality.Last edited by JeMeSouviens; 22-05-2020 at 01:26 PM.
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22-05-2020 01:29 PM #21
I hated Fergie’s team at the time as we could barely ever lay a glove on them. My biggest disappointment against them was not beating them in the Cup semi at Dens in 86. We came so close in that game. They were a fantastic side with a solid stable core and some brilliant attacking players. Even when their first choice men weren’t available they always seemed to have guys who could stand in seamlessly.
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That's right. The Hibs support joined in the round of applause... and they thanked us by beating us 5-0!
That was also the first time ever I saw a football casual, with around 30 hanging around the area where our buses were parked before the game, all wearing Argyle pattern jumpers.
I thought at at first there was a golf competition somewhere nearby, till they started throwing bricks at us.
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22-05-2020 10:08 PM #26
They were a formidable force at the time. I remember them winning the league at Easter Road. Scottish sides had decent runs in Europe when the OF were arguably at their weakest.
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24-05-2020 12:00 PM #28
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Aberdeen won 3-0 but only seen 1goal as the others were at the beach end and couldn't see for the fog.
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24-05-2020 12:06 PM #29
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24-05-2020 12:27 PM #30
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I accept I'm in the minority but I think Fergie is an utter tool. I've felt this since his interview pitchside seconds after Aberdeen beat Rangers in the Scottish cup final calling the performance a disgrace. They'd just won the Cup winners cup a couple of weeks before as well. I've heard all the arguments "that's what makes him a winner" blah blah blah...he's still a tool.
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