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Champions League Final 2034

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From The Johan Cruijff Arena
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Aberdeen vs Atletico Madrid
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Our 4th final and our 2nd against Atletico who will be gunning for revenge and will be looking to join us as 3 times winners




Aberdeen 1-2 Atletico Madrid
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Cant say much more than we were unlucky over the 90 minutes especially the way we dominated the first 60 minutes. We fell behind for a whole minute in the first half and after Manea got us back in the game we were the better team till both sides clearly tired towards the end and Atletico had and took the only real chance near the end of the game as Tsaousakis went down with a groin injury as Atletico countered to score the title winning goal.




Manea could at least take hist first golden boot out of the defeat
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4 Dons make the dream team
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End of Season 2033/34






Scotland
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Another title for Aberdeen at the usual canter. Sadly we dropped that two points in a shambolic draw with St Mirren but our unbeaten run now stands at 140 games dating back to November 2030.
As with every season since 2025 we have a different team in 2nd spot and the other Champions League spot as Celtic claim it back from Rangers who will be in Europa League action with Falkirk & Hibs. Hearts make sure its the strongest top 6 in a few season as behind them former top 6 sides Partick and Morton cycle out ahead of the clear bottom 4 where a late charge from Hamilton amazingly keeps them in the SPL and Dundee Utd go right back to the Championship but do not sack manager Lee Wilkie who's former club team Dundee will face a playoff.




SPL Play-Off
Dundee 3-3 Motherwell
Motherwell win 4-3 on pens
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210 minutes couldnt split the two sides that see Motherwell return after 8 seasons away and next year will only be there 4th season in the top flight during the save never spending 2 seasons in a row in the top flight. Dundee go down and they sack Darryl Duffy and hire Charlie Adam to try and take them back to the SPL






Big League review
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Man Utd claim back the title a point clear of Man City. West ham reach the dizzy hights of the top 7 with Leicester falling back to to 11th
Dortmund return to the top in Germany just clear of Leverkusen and Schalke. Bayern as usual after a title win capitulate and finish 5th
Napoli just manage to hold of Roma with both sides going over 90 points. Defending champs Inter were just behind while Juventus climb back to 4th but are miles away from a title challenge
Real Madrid enjoyed another dominating season with the top 4 all around 10 points apart from each other


The team i feel sorry for more than anyone ever is Bari!
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Aberdeen
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Alan Grangier continues his run of being our best player, no sign of him retiring at 32 and still possibly the left wing back in the game to me at least! with Lopez & Tsaousakis show why they are our two world class players. Klein showed his first signs of decline by hardly scoring a goal in the second half of the season and only grabbing a total of 22 goals all season from 36 games as Lopez, Gunciu and Tsaousakis contributed far more goals from the midfield.










Aberdeen Finances
£344m -£24m
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Huge losses on our day to day earnings with all the contracts we handed out. Should be back in profit next season.






World Rich list
£899m +£6m
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Very little change as we level out our income with many many contract renewals






Other Competitions




Europa League
Tottenham 2-1 Arsenal
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North London has a day break out to Bari and its Spurs who secure a 5th champions League spot for English teams






Scottish Teams in Europe
Aberdeen - Champions League Final
Celtic - Europa League last 32
Rangers - Europa League Last 32
Hibs - Europa League Group
Hearts - Europa League Qualifier


Happy with that. Rangers & Celtic making 3 teams in Europe after Christmas and Hibs in the groups.





European Rankings
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Were down to 3rd spot with only Barcelona and the new no1 Atletico, If we'd beaten them in the final all 3 team would be on 150 points . Despite having similar seasons Celtic are up to 32th and Rangers fall to 41th. No other Scottish sides in the top 100!






No change to the Euro places. We pretty much the same and no sign of catching Portugal again in the near future








Awards




Aberdeen Fans player awards
Alan Granger
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Never any doubt




SPL Player of the year
Federico Lopez
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Another repeat winner as for the 5th year in a row it goes to the man on our left wing




SPL Young Player of the year
Paulo Alexandre
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So glad i finally got him to take a Scotland call up




SPL Top Scorer
Federico Lopez
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Another new face and the final sign that Klein will probably never lift another golden boot. At least he's back in the top 3




Scottish team of the year
8 Dons fill the line up
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World Cup 2034





Squad
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Most of these guys have been around for 4 years or more. Fore the core of the squad its going to be there last shot at a World Cup




Warm Up games was a disaster No idea why our brilliant form from the last 7 years has gone overnight
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Match 1
Costa Rica 1-0 Scotland
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My worst result in charge of the national team by some considerable distance we dominated the first half but as we went more and more attacking Costa Rica caught us in the counter and that was that


Thankfully Belgium and Chilie drew so im not totally screwed but a immediate turn of form is required.




Match 2
Scotland 1-0 Belgium
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i Guess if one thing in this save is a lock down cert is beating Belgium. Similar result against Chile will let us amazingly top the group




Match 3
Chile 0-2 Scotland
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The South Americans play some very fruity formations and had 3 major changes during this game but non of them could unlock our defense and we scored a goal half way through each half to ensure we top spot.




Final Table
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Is this the opposite of what you can expect? Belgium on the bottom and Chile out as Costa Rica win twice to go through with us.






Major nations Brazil, France and Holland are all out
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Second Round Draw
Mexico vs Scotland
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Ok Ok i wasnt paying attention and skipped through the opening game. We played in the last world cup where we beat them on penaltys in the Quarter Finals



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World Cup Last 16

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Mexico vs Scotland
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Our second knock out game against the best North America can offer. We won on penalty's after a 0-0 draw in the Quarter Finals in 2030




Mexico 1-2 Scotland
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Another knock out win in the reasonable 20 degree heat of Brisbane. A tight match for the first half hour led to us changing our shape to deal with the main Mexican threat DR Bryan Esquivel and stifled them from then on deservedly taking the lead through Jack Connolly just before the break. We went more defensive with Mexico going with 3 up front and after a few scary moments they won a penalty with veteran captain Claudio Lomeli pulling the game level soon after Jack Connolly went off with a knock and it just felt like it was going against us when the future of Aberdeen and Scotland's midfield Paulo Alexandre struck what turned out to be the winning goal. Douglas off the bench missed a penalty that made the last 15 minutes as uncomfortable as it had to be but the defense did there job and we're into the Quarter Finals




Results
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Morocco cause a international incident knocking Argentina out on penaltys




QF Draw
Scotland vs Italy
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Only one mega power clash with England vs Portugal while Germany & Spain have winable tie's



As your the Scots we get Italy
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We've only lost 1 of our 6 competitive games winning the last 2 including knocking them our of the Euro's 2 years ago at this stage



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World Cup Quarter Finals

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Scotland Vs Italy

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The Italians have been the best team in the competition winning all there games so far including thrashing the Swiss in the last round and Portugal in the Group phase




Scotland 2-0 Italy
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But they couldnt beat us! Once again we totally changed our formation to deal with Italy's 3 AMC and for the first half it was a close game Italy having the best chances including missing a penalty but we had our fair share before the opening goal from Jack Connolly after the magic of his half time orange. Like the Mexico game we went even more defensive and running the clock down with Italy unable to break us down and it was Andrew Miller who for some reason latched onto a through ball to settle the tie and put us into the Semi Finals




Results
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Germany and Spain did what was expected of them and after 120 minute Portugal put the defending champions out on penaltys




Semi Final Draw
Spain vs Scotland
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I mentioned how often we played Belgium but this shows we've played the Spanish side even more often holding a far better head to head record only loosing 1 game in a major competition and that was the 2018 world cup. Since then we've put them out of the last 2 World Cups. Can we make it 3?




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World Cup Semi Final

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Spain vs Scotland

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A familiar venture with our most familiar of foe's. Imagine if we can beat Spain to reach our second World Cup final in a row!




Spain 1-2 Scotland
We're in the FINAL!!!
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The match itself was very back to front with all the action coming in the first 25 minutes, maybe both teams were to tired for the 2nd half? We took the lead through Jack Connolly with me switching from short passing to long balls on my assistants advice but before we could change anything Spain were level. Only 3 minutes later another Spanish player scored but in the wrong net and we were ahead again. We kept pushing, in fact both sides did but no more goals before half time. We then went into our all out defense mode that once again did the trick and like Italy and Mexico before them Spain couldnt find a goal and were back in the biggest game on earth




Final
Scotland vs Portugal
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There players will be shagged for the final with a day less to prepare as well.



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World Cup Final 2034

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Scotland vs Portugal
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Road to the final
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Germany were the only team to put a goal past Portugal in the knock out phase with a extra time win against Germany and a penalty shoot out win against England. Like ourselves they lost a game in the group phase to Italy who we later beat so there's a omen for us.




Scotland 0-2 Portugal
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And for the third final in a row we bottle it. Our worst performance of the 3 by a long way. We couldnt even manage a single shot on target despite chasing the game for a full half






Awards



Dream Team
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Chalmers and Alexandre make the starting 11 with Millar on the bench



Golden boot
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Best Young player
Paulo Alexandre
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Back to back winners for Scotland




Alan Grangier retires again
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Will it stick this time or can i convince him to come back to get over 100 caps


Where will we go from here? 4 starting players are already in there 30s and the quality coming through the u21s and 19s is very poor.




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Pre Season 2034/35






Rangers move to Edinburgh
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Well only till the make Ibrox the biggest stadium in Scotland. Strange they couldnt play at Hampden but imagine if the game had them sharing Parkhead




Testimonials


Two bigs days for 2 club legends


First up was Turkish wing back
Cenzig Haskan
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Then recently retired Brazilian Captain
Jose Henrique
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Season Targets
SPL - Winners
Scottish Cup - Win
League Cup - Win
Champions League - S/F




Champions league expectation is to get back to the final.






Pre Season Prices
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After almost 2 decades of domination the bookies have finally caught on






Aberdeen Squad
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We will probably be changing striker as Klein would now struggle to get a start for most SPL team






Aberdeen Transfers
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We've moved on 4 youth player already and more may follow






Manager Changes
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Frank De Boer lost the England job to end up back at his first team Ajax










International Jobs


Gio Van Bronkhorst - England
Oscar Klein - Argentina
Caiuby - Brazil
Roy Beerens - Holland
Yohan Croizet - France
Didier Deschamps - Belgium
"Vacant" - Spain



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August


Aberdeen start the season with 4 wins in the league and 1 in the cup after Rangers run us close at Murryfield



2 Club legends move on

Martin Neil
373 games 54 goals
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A career back up after moving from Motherwell 15 years ago for £975k. He moved to Sunderland for £1.1m.


Ross Macauley
358 Games 107 Goals
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The clubs best winger over the first 5 seasons highlighted by one of the best seasons any of our players ever had in 2022/23. sadly for Macauley he fell down the depth chart immediately after that season but for another 7 or 8 season was the main back up for either wing. The transfer embargo killed his career as we had stocked up so high on wingers that we had no space for Macauley who only managed 10 appearances in his final 3 seasons. He'll retire at the end of the season.






Fixtures
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SPFL Table
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Tie at the top as Celtic join us in a perfect start. Both promoted teams and Falkirk are yet to win




Champions League Draw
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Reports called this a easy draw. ARE THEY HIGH! Barcelona were by far the strongest 2nd seed. Roma win league title's and Feyenoord are the strongest Dutch team in a transfer ban era. Think this is our toughest group ever!






Scotland


Our First squad after the world cup seen Neil and Marshall dropped along with Grangier's retirement as well as Vincene getting called up to secure his nationality

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End up 4th in the world rankings
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Friendly
Scotland 2-0 Hungary
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European League
Scotland 1-2 England
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Really should have got a draw and really needed a draw




We will now have to get the better of Ukraine to secure a top 2 finish.
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September


Only Barcelona find a way past our defense




Fixtures
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SPFL Table
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Celtic loose there unbeaten record and 2nd place to St Mirren. Rangers and Hearts are in the bottom half and Motherwell are the last team waiting for a win.




Champions League
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We started with a draw in Barcelona in about as drab a match as you'll ever see. We then lined up at home to Feyenoord and a smile broke out on my face as i seen them line up with no wingers. My best players are wingers and we destroyed them.





Scotland


European league
Ukraine 0-1 Scotland
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We get the big win that should help us keep our place in the A league

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Friendly
Scotland 0-1 Russia
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Shameful performance but we just couldnt produce.



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October




We reach 150 SPL games unbeaten
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Fixtures
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SPFL Table
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11 wins to start the season and we're 10 points clear of Celtic who have a chasing pack led by St Mirren & Partick. Rangers are still in the bottom half where below them looks a thrilling battle for the relegation spots. And look who is leading the golden boot race all of a sudden




Champions League
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Another ****** draw in Rome left Barcelona loose at the top and qualified to the last 16 stage. We need to beat them in match 5 to have a chance at topping the group.





Scotland




Final European League table
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Both results were a let down even with 3 starters out injured. shows how big a hit age has taken on our squad.



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Betfred Cup Final 2034

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Aberdeen vs Rangers

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A repeat of last years final


Aberdeen 3-0 Rangers
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And it was almost a repeat score of last years final except this time we only scored 3.




We are now 18 seasons and 74 games unbeaten in the League Cup winning the last 10 and 17 of the clubs total 23 League cup wins. 5 Wins away and we'll be the most time winners.


Another Crazy stat. We last conceded a league cup goal in the 2031 final
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It also finally gave me enough Hall of Fame points to be the best Scottish manager ever!
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December


1st sacking of the year takes place. A top 6 job but i'm passing. At this stage Queen of the South & Dundee Utd are tycoon owned and Celtic are the 3 teams that would take me away from Grangier and Klein

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Fixtures
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By a long way our best month of the season




SPFL Table
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Celtic have themselves a month to move clear in 2nd with Partick leading Rangers, St Mirren and Hibs in the top 6.


Hearts in the bottom 4 join Falkirk in sacking there manager which ends up with bottom of the table Forfar looking for a new manager

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Champions League
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We finally ground down Barcelona at home to go top then stumble past Feyenoord to win the group




Last 16 Draw
Leverkusen vs Aberdeen
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Its been a while my old friend. We've played them in 8 competetive games winning 7 of them

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Scotland

Euro 2036 qualifying draw
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This must be the easiest group i've seen in my life




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January




A former Don beats two current Aberdeen stars to the World player award
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Plenty spots in the team of the year for our boys
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In other news Grangier is back for Scotland again!
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Another milestone match
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Fixtures
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We kick start the year with 5 wins




SPFL Table
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Rangers close the gap on Partick and all of the bottom 6 have great months, Except Forfar



Managers positions all filled
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February



It took over 4 years and 167 games but the run is over as Falkirk of all teams take advantage of our
European hang over
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Scotland has a new record cap holder
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Fixtures
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SPFL Table
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Were as safe in 1st as Celtic are in 2nd after that its muddy waters. Partick & St Mirren are just ahead of Rangers.


Motherwell join Hamilton at the bottom and are the latest team to change there manager after Hibs nicked Craig Malcom from Morton who are also looking for a manager

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Champions League last 16




1st Leg
Leverkusen 2-4 Aberdeen
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Our leakey defense almost got us in trouble again but a thrilling 2nd half display see us take a huge advantage into the 2nd leg




2nd Leg
Aberdeen 7-0 Leverkusen
Aberdeen 11-2 Leverkusen on agg
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If the 1st leg was worrying this was as the Germans would say a Katastrophe






Results
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Atletico are the only unseeded team to go through



Quarter Final Draw
Atletico Madrid vs Aberdeen
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The draw i really didnt want. We get the defending champions and avoid the 5 English teams






Youth Intake

Two youths
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And ONE SON!!!! could have at least waited till i moved to turn pro. Little *****
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Scotland
i forgot to call up Grangier for a friendly and he quit again!
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Euro Qualifier
Norway 0-2 Scotland
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we get our toughest match on paper out of the way with a win a the very start




Friendly
Mexico 1-1 Scotland
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March




Fixtures
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Another defeat this time to closest rivals Celtic. Not so fussed after loosing to Falkirk earlier and back to back Champions League matches to follow


SPFL Table
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The top 2 are set while its anyone's guess who will finish 3rd. Hibs should finish 6th after nabbing the last top 6 spot. At the bottom its a 4 way fight between Forfar, Hamilton, Motherwell 7 Hearts. Klien's long shot of winning another golden boot looks to be lost




Champions League Quarter Finals


1st Leg
Atletico Madrid 2-1 Aberdeen
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We were by far the better team and i'm especially angry that we lost this after facing 10 men for the final 20 minutes. With all that said Granger's late goal makes for a tasty 2nd leg that i'd make us favorites for.




2nd Leg
Aberdeen 2-1 Atletico Madrid
Aberdeen 3-3 Atletico on agg
Aberdeen win 4-3 on Pens
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How did we needed extra time and penaltys after total domination 26 shots to 2 with the Atletico keeper having a career day until the shoot out where once again Chalmers came up big,




Results
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The English challenge falls to pieces with only Spurs and Arsenal reaching the final 4 and they only came through all English games




Semi Final Draw
Paris SG vs Aberdeen
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I would have fancied my chances against either of the North London teams but the French side are my least favorite opponents







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April


First of our two mega powers are calling it a career
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Fixtures
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SPFL Table
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Partick go into the final 2 games leading the race for 3rd. All they have to do is get a result at Parkhead then get a result at home to Rangers in what looks like a final day decider. Forfar look set for bottom spot while Hamilton need a result to claw back Hearts and Motherwell




Champions League Semi Final


1st leg
PSG 1-2 Aberdeen
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We get a huge away win but oh what could of been. We were in total command when Cosmin Manea gave us the lead but the game turned suddenly on the half hour as back up wing back Oyarzun gave away a penalty and got a 2nd yellow leaving us down a man against the best midfield in the game, facing a penalty and 60 minutes of rear guard action. Former Don Pedro Sousa equalized from the spot and i feared the worst but we stayed relevant and amazing took the lead when French right back Jean Fontaine scored a own goal upon this little miracle i went all out defense and we amazingly kept the door shut for over half a hour to take an away goal lead to the 2nd leg. I must extend my thanks to Toulouse who held PSG to a 0-0 draw just before our champions league match and that game gave me some tips on how to keep there attacking threat in hand




2nd Leg
Aberdeen 0-1 PSG
AGG Aberdeen 2-2 PSG - Aberdeen win on away goals
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A very disappointing scoreline after our 1st leg display but that 1st leg was enough to get us back to another Champions League final. Right back was again the problem with Haskin back in the 1st team scoring a own goal that made the rest of the game pretty unbearable. No more than when at a identical time to the 1st leg PSG got a penalty right on the half hour but this tile Lee Chalmers saved the day.


Arsenal also managed to lean on a 1st leg win to reach there first Champions League final in the save and only there 2nd ever

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May


Fixtures
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SPFL Table
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Partick loose out as Rangers ruin there neighbours once in a lifetime shot at 3rd place. Hibs brilliant end of the season see them nick 5th and the final European spot from St Mirren. Hamilton go to the playoffs


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