Aberdeen 0 Hibs 0 – Easter Road Stadium 11/9/11
Sometimes nil-nil can be a deceptive scoreline, masking an exciting encounter between two evenly-matched sides. Sometimes, though, there are simply no goals because neither team is good enough to score...
View ArticleAberdeen 2 Kilmarnock 2 – Pittodrie Stadium 17/9/11
Last week’s debacle at Easter Road raised the question of whether Aberdeen and Hibs were bottom of the league because they were playing badly, or if they were playing badly because they were bottom of...
View ArticleDons Go Out On Penalties Following Extra Time Stalemate.
Aberdeen 3 - East Fife 3 - East Fife win 4-3 on penalties - 20/9/11 This latest embarrassment will not be altogether unfamiliar to those who sat through similar capitulations against Queen of the...
View ArticleMotherwell 1 Aberdeen 0 – Fir Park 24/9/11
Aberdeen are yet to win a game or even score a goal away from home in all competitions this season, and visiting third placed Motherwell was unlikely to yield any joy on this front regardless of the...
View ArticleAberdeen 4 Dunfermline 0 – Pittodrie Stadium 30/9/11
A Scott Vernon hat-trick sent Aberdeen on the way to doubling their SPL goal tally for the season, and in truth the Dons could and should have scored more as they finally clicked in the final third....
View ArticleAberdeen 3 Dundee United 1 – Pittodrie Stadium 15/10/11
Back to back wins, a five-figure home attendance creating a good atmosphere, and a team physically dominating a match to a comfortable victory. Philip Sim reports from Pittodrie. Last time out against...
View ArticleCeltic 2 Aberdeen 1 – Parkhead, 23/10/11
An Aberdeen defeat at Parkhead is hardly unpredictable - it's seemed like the Dons couldn't buy a win against Celtic in recent years, not that they'd have to finance to do so - but at least the team...
View ArticleAberdeen 1 Rangers 2 – Pittodrie Stadium 29/10/11
Another narrow 2-1 defeat against the Old Firm for Aberdeen in a game which lacked entertaining football but was never short on controversy and incident. The Dons conceded a penalty, had an appeal of...
View ArticleDunfermline 3 Aberdeen 3 – East End Park 26.11.11
This match really underlined how the sport of football can toy with the emotions of its followers. At half time Dunfermline would have bitten off hands for a point, but in the end it was Aberdeen who...
View ArticleFrom Real Madrid To Realism And A Window Half-closed
Foiled by Jock Frost, David Innes got his weekly fitba fix last weekend at Pittodrie. Paying more than three times the cost for about a tenth of the entertainment he relishes in the proper mannies’...
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