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Richard Gordon: Why Scottish football’s 2024/25 season shows SPFL structure works and doesn’t need reconstruction
12 Apr 2025 05:22 GMT
With the split in the Scottish Premiership kicking in this weekend, and the rest of the divisions having just four games to go, we are fast reaching the climax of what has been a ridiculously unpredictable SPFL season.
The top-flight has been bizarre – …
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Richard Gordon: Remarkable Kevin Nisbet turnaround could price Aberdeen out, and why SPFL reconstruction is madness
05 Apr 2025 06:04 GMT
Having booked a top-six finish with last weekend’s impressive victory over Motherwell, Aberdeen will now hope to really kick-on and try to clinch third place.
If they secure that, there is every possibility it will bring the guarantee of group stage …
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Richard Gordon: Aberdeen need massive win v Motherwell to banish spectre of unacceptable bottom-six finish
29 Mar 2025 07:21 GMT
Aberdeen have a simple and straightforward task at Pittodrie on Saturday: beat Motherwell and, no matter what the other hopefuls do, a Premiership top-six place is assured.
Given where they were after the first few months of the campaign, it might not seem …
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Richard Gordon: Aberdeen must fix their bottom-six defence numbers if they’re to overhaul Hibs
08 Mar 2025 06:57 GMT
Aberdeen’s battle for third place in the Premiership goes on the backburner on Saturday lunchtime with the squad focused on reaching the semi-finals of this season’s Scottish Cup.
They go into the meeting with giantkillers Queen’s Park having pulled off a …
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Richard Gordon: Aberdeen win v Dundee United would set up enticing Dons run – as race for Europe intensifies
01 Mar 2025 07:15 GMT
Aberdeen’s recent mini-revival came to a shuddering halt on Tuesday night when, for the second time this season, Celtic battered them in Glasgow.
Unlike in the semi-final back in November, though, Aberdeen were well in the match, and could have been 2-0 up …
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Richard Gordon on whether Aberdeen’s luck is finally changing and why the SWPL is a strange place right now
15 Feb 2025 06:39 GMT
After months of torture, and the worst run of league results in the history of the club, it might be that the Dons’ luck is finally beginning to change.
Certainly, if the Scottish Cup is anything to go by, the signs are that fortune is favouring them.
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Richard Gordon: Aberdeen must stop the rot as they edge closer to an unwanted SPFL record
31 Jan 2025 17:58 GMT
The torture for Dons fans continued last weekend with another sub-par display and another demoralising defeat against St Mirren.
The Paisley side were everything Aberdeen were not, clinical and incisive up front, robust and organised at the back, and the …
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Richard Gordon: Jimmy Calderwood and Denis Law will be sorely missed
24 Jan 2025 19:01 GMT
There was reason for north-east football fans to mourn last weekend when, within the space of 48 hours, the deaths were announced of two men who, in their different ways, generated much warmth and affection for us.
First came the passing of our finest ever …
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Richard Gordon: Aberdeen transfer window signings must thrive – or it could yet be bottom six
18 Jan 2025 06:24 GMT
Aberdeen’s alarming fall from grace continued this week with two more desperately disappointing performances.
Further evidence of the remarkable dip in form arrived in the manner of the 3-0 defeat by Rangers, the current gulf between the sides there for …
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Richard Gordon: A new striker has to be Aberdeen’s top January transfer window priority
10 Jan 2025 17:39 GMT
With the Dons’ desperate run now stretching back two months, and dreams of finishing at least in runners-up place having utterly evaporated, Jimmy Thelin has a massive January transfer window ahead of him.
Ten without a win, five straight defeats – the …