...those were the days:

 

On This Day: 31 January

 

1962: Having drawn 2-2 at Clyde four days earlier, Aberdeen destroy their Rutherglen opponents by a whopping 10 goals to three at Pittodrie. Bobby Cummings gets five in what is one of Aberdeen's highest ever scorelines.

http://www.afcheritage.org/main.cfm

April is a good month for nostalgia.

May is better! 

Aberdeen 6 Rangers 0. This day 1954. Scottish Cup Semi Final.

 

 

Joe O'Neil scored a hat trick that day, which is amazing in its self but check this out:

 

Joe had suffered a depressed fracture of the skull in a game against Falkirk only three weeks earlier but declared himself fit for the game against Rangers, against the doctor's advice

Fucking pansies these days!

Poofs the lot of them. In my glittering 5 and 7 - a - side career I got my foot broken in two places in a tackle 10 minutes into the game. I played on because I'm a fucking committed cunt and went on to score a hat-trick before going off half an hour later. Fuck me it was sair the next day. 

Poofs the lot of them. In my glittering 5 and 7 - a - side career I got my foot broken in two places in a tackle 10 minutes into the game. I played on because I'm a fucking committed cunt and went on to score a hat-trick before going off half an hour later. Fuck me it was sair the next day. 

 

You'll not be going back to those two places in a hurry then.

Another belter for April:

 

On This Day: 11 April

 

1970: After a gap of fifteen years the Dons win a trophy, this time it's the Scottish Cup which they lift in front of 108,464 people by beating favourites Celtic 3-1, with the goals coming from McKay 2 and Harper.

http://www.afcheritage.org/matches/fixtures/mreport.cfm?fixture_id=4931&squad=Senior

 

http://www.afcheritage.org/matches/fixtures/mreport.cfm?fixture_id=4931&squad=Senior

 

 

Aye, thanks for reminding us 

Jesus, still one of my darkest times as a dons fan. Thanks Stewart  

http://www.afcheritage.org/matches/fixtures/mreport.cfm?fixture_id=4931&squad=Senior

 

 

Well you're a bit of a cunt aren't you

Another belter for April:

 

 

http://www.afcheritage.org/matches/fixtures/mreport.cfm?fixture_id=4931&squad=Senior

 

 

Long time apart, very different emotions, but was at both games

22 yrs ago today 

 

 

:ultras: :ultras:

Was bhind the goal that day, still makes my hair stand on end. 

Was bhind the goal that day, still makes my hair stand on end. 

 

Same, the bounce for Theo's save is up there in "Greatest Ever Bounce" and it abruptly ended as everyone realised our next taker happened to be big Irvine... 

Same, the bounce for Theo's save is up there in "Greatest Ever Bounce" and it abruptly ended as everyone realised our next taker happened to be big Irvine... 

 

I can only imagine the pessimism everyone felt before the ball hit the back of the net

I can only imagine the pessimism everyone felt before the ball hit the back of the net

 

Nerves rather than pessimism I'd say, he took it rather superbly though 

I was more worried about Charlie's pen, after all he was off bac to the tims after that game, but he did the business too 

Nerves rather than pessimism I'd say, he took it rather superbly though 

 

This was actually the very first football match i ever watched all the way through.  Looking at it now it might actually have been better for my life if we had lost that shoot out.  Potentially i could have decided that AFC were not worth the effort and saved myself years of misery

If I remember it was a god-awful 120mins before the shootout

 

If I remember it was a god-awful 120mins before the shootout

 

Yeah, not many chances. Nicholas had one cleared off the line in the first half and Gillhaus hit the side netting in the second but not much else happened. Don't remember Snelders making a save other than rogan's pen.

Have to look at the quality of the penalty kicks and I put Theo's save as one of the greatest Penalties saves of all time.

 

These days either the goalkeepers have dramatically improved or the top players cant handle the pressure mounted on them to score from 12 yards. Its almost a special skill

It could be down to the excessive coverage of the game but I seem to recall a penalty being saved or missed as being almost headline news. Now it seems to be a regular occurrence

I may just be being silly here, but I think as well as all of the above, keepers were smaller too? And possibly practiced saving pens less, certainly probably didn't research the opposition as much

Same, the bounce for Theo's save is up there in "Greatest Ever Bounce" and it abruptly ended as everyone realised our next taker happened to be big Irvine... 

 

There was a lot of whispered - "oh Christ it's Dobbin next"  around our section. 

 

I never used to realise just how fortunate a young man I was to be an Aberdeen fan and to see the team win so many trophies.

I was more worried about Charlie's pen, after all he was off bac to the tims after that game, but he did the business too 

 

Ditto, and for that very moment I have never held a grudge against Nicholas. If the tattie howkers had won that day they were in Europe, if they didn't they weren't if I remember correctly.