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Richard Gordon: No need for Scottish Championship, League One and League Two reconstruction
03 May 2025 05:56 GMT
There was good news earlier this week when the SPFL made it clear any plans for a restructuring of the Premiership were dead in the water.
In a statement, the league governing body announced there was “no reasonable prospect of achieving consensus around a …
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Richard Gordon: Aberdeen fans’ Scottish Cup celebrations were joyous – can Dons now build momentum to better Celtic in final?
26 Apr 2025 05:36 GMT
Last Saturday at Hampden could hardly have been more nerve-shredding, but Aberdeen got the job done and now have the lure of a Scottish Cup final – which should push the players on for the remainder of the campaign.
It was not particularly pretty at the …
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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: Aberdeen’s Scottish Cup semi-final result against Hearts will likely DEFINE season
18 Apr 2025 16:44 GMT
The fate of Aberdeen’s season will be decided on Saturday afternoon at the national stadium – when the Dons meet Hearts in their Scottish Cup semi-final.
Win against Hearts, and Aberdeen should get the momentum, and the incentive, needed to see out the …
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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 …