joburgbear
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Was thinking about this on the back of last week, was it due to the assault by Simpson on Durrant? Or the 90-91 title decider & the 2nd goal? or a combination of things? why did they get so bitter?
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They've hated us long before then, I first went to Pittodrie in 91 and the hatred was there. I think many of them felt that Ferguson and the 80's were the new normal and they'd always be top of the tree or thereabouts, Souness took that away from them, I like to think their treble runners up season finished them off in 93.
I hated Aberdeen games up till 86, they had a fantastic team and we rarely beat them, I was at secondary school in Dunoon from 82 till 88 and those first four years were tough, amazing the amount of Aberdeen fans back then in a wee West Coast town
Some of them would claim that Willie Johnston stamped on the throat of one of their players at a game at Ibrox in 1980.we played numerous cup finals against Aberdeen in the mid and late 80s, there was snide tackles flying in all over the place, Willie Miller wasn't shy either for dishing out some thuggery.
Durrant assault probably upped it a bit.
Aberdeen tried to plant a story around the final day of 90-91 season that McCoist was leaving and Walter had called a meeting with the hacks and gave them a mouthful for printing the story knowing it to be pish.
I’d say when Ferguson went there he amped up the alleged west coast bias of sfa and media. At that time it was Aberdeen v Rangers or the Paedo wing.This is a decent summary. Fergie stoked the “hatred” by giving them a mindset of them against the world, but us winning the league there with big Butchers header and the place rammed with our fans ramped it up. Add in Durrant and our success which they were jealous of and it all adds up.
I first went up in 86 and it was pretty bad even then. But I do know my bus before I joined used to stay up in Aberdeen till late on Saturday night before it came home, can’t imagine you’d get away with that now. Would be trouble all over the place.
This all day long.Alex Ferguson.
Alex Ferguson.Was thinking about this on the back of last week, was it due to the assault by Simpson on Durrant? Or the 90-91 title decider & the 2nd goal? or a combination of things? why did they get so bitter?
He was always vewy pwoud of his pwayers.WATP.Pwik
That wouldnt have helped but my recollection was an incident between Rougvie and big DJ. I found this,Wee Bud stamping on McMasters throat wouldn’t have helped and possibly where it started in the early 80s?
The late ally dawson liked a throttle or 2Ratcheted up big time in the 80’s, for a few reasons probably
Derek Johnstone lying sparked on the Hampden turf and Doug Rougvie getting sent off in the LCF 1979
The Willie Johnston/John McMaster incident in 1980
The whole casual movement in the 80s led to several tasty clashes both at Pittodrie and Ibrox
Hugh Burns and Craig Paterson both sent off whilst Willie Miller and Neale Cooper got away with murder, East Enclosure spilled onto track that day as well, absolute carnage outside afterwards 1985
Us winning the league at Pittodrie and taking the goalposts home wouldn’t have gone down well 1987
Simpson’s butchery of Durrant in 1988 brought it to wider attention
As mentioned before Souness ending their dominance contributed towards their hatred as well, they had won the league in 80, 84 and 86 as well as the Scottish Cup in 84,85 and 86
Celtic were a mess come the late 80s and Aberdeen were our main competition in the premier league for a good few years, but they have been largely irrelevant since about 1993/94
Jealousy on their part. Sheer indifference on mine.Was thinking about this on the back of last week, was it due to the assault by Simpson on Durrant? Or the 90-91 title decider & the 2nd goal? or a combination of things? why did they get so bitter?
Is the correct answer.Alex Ferguson.