This season's RedMatchday Magazine is packed with even more exclusive and in-depth interviews, even more player features, more behind the scenes photos, even more historical features, even more columnists plus some new features.

In RedMatchday Issue 10, This week’s featured player is Jayden Stockley:

“I first appeared on the bench for the first team when I was 15. It is quite a cool story to tell your mates, but then there was a lot cameras coming into the school and that was less cool! It was embarrassing. My mates just took the mickey out of me the whole time.

“I was travelling here, there and everywhere with the first team and it was great. My ambition was to break into the first team at as young an age as possible. Being that young, getting to experience what I did, getting a sniff of it, it makes me feel like I have been in the game for a long time already.

“I made my debut the day after my 16th birthday. We were away at Northampton. Danny Ings and myself made our debuts that day. Although we lost, it was still a great moment. It is something you dream of. The best way of describing it, it is a surreal experience. The hardest thing to get used to was the crowd. It was weird going from playing at youth level or in a reserve game in front of a handful of people to a crowd took a bit of getting used to. It was not the abuse or anything, it was just the surroundings were strange.

“Eddie Howe was the boss then, in his first spell at the club. I first got to know Eddie when I returned from Portsmouth. He was my U16 manager and he put his arm around me straight away and said that he was glad I was back and had some very nice words to say to me. I missed the youth team out and pretty much he took me straight into the first team squad. That was brilliant.

“The thing that stuck out for me was his work ethic. He just wants to improve all the time. Especially those early years I was with him, he was always striving to be a better manager and to make us a better side. It is strange seeing how much better a team can become just from training. They have just got better and better and now they are a top class side. They are a massive club now and I can only see them going one way. And that is solely down to how hard Eddie and his staff work.”

There is also an interview with Aberdeen keeper Danny Rogers:

“The news came as a massive surprise. I actually thought I was called up to the U21s but that was a surprise in itself because as it was their las game of the campaign, I thought they would select younger players looking ahead to the next qualifying campaign. That is what they normally. But someone at Falkirk told me I was called in the U21s. I was a bit puzzled. A couple of days later my agent phoned and told me I was in the senior squad! I could not believe it! I was completed taken a back. I did not expect it at all. It was a wonderful leaving.”

There are the usual columns from manager Derek McInnes, skipper Ryan Jack, Richard Gordon, Ally Begg and Chris Crighton. Wes Burns does the Players Q&A.

In the Pittodrie People feature, this week we interview Robbie Hedderman:

“Now, I am senior Scottish FA coach within the AFFCT. I am basically the co-ordinator for all things football in the community. I organise all the events and anything football related. There is a lot of forward planning and line management, budgets, looking after staffing, so the finance background that I had ties in as well as the football background and club development.

“It has been very busy and I have had to get up to speed as quickly as possible. They are very fast moving here which is great and it why the community department has had the success it has had. Over a very short space of time there has been huge growth with the community department. We are delivering some great programmes but in the background it puts a lot of pressure on the administration. There are a lot of good people here working very work behind the scenes.  

“The community model here is similar to many of the clubs in Germany. We go out to the community instead of waiting for the community to come to us.

In the history section we look back at previous Aberdeen v Celtic games in the League Cup:

While the result flattered the visitors it was steeped in controversy when Celtic were awarded a penalty after Bobby Lennox dived over Dons keeper Bobby Clark as he made a save. To the astonished crowd a penalty was awarded even with no real claims from any of the visiting players. The trouble did not end there. Clark incredibly saved Gemmell’s thunderbolt penalty but to the dismay of the home support referee JRP Gordon ordered a retake from which Gemmell scored. The referee was then approached by a spectator and his dog as he ran on to the pitch to remonstrate with the official.

Finally, one of the new features introduced this season is a fans Q&A. This gives our readers the chance to be in this season's magazine. We are still looking for some more supporters to get involved. if you would like to feature please email the programme editor Malcolm at: redtv@afc.co.uk

84 pages and still only £3.00 – offering you our readers great value for money.

RedMatchday Issue 10 is available from sellers in and around the ground. There will be copies available to buy in the club shop plus you can buy all the AFC programmes online here: www.curtis-sport.com