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Scottish Cup 400: Your favourite moment
As part of our countdown to our 400th Scottish Cup fixture next Sunday against Partick Thistle, we want you to tell us your favourite AFC Scottish Cup memory.
The Dons have appeared in 15 finals and won the cup on seven occasions. Was one of those finals your favourite moment? The 1970 final? Neale Cooper’s goal in ’82? Brian Irvine’s penalty in 1990?
Or was it from one of the other 219 victories we have had in the competition?
Recently, Dons fan and Journalist Graham Hunter listed his favourite away trip in RedMatchday Magazine: “Loved the 1982 semi-final at Dens. “Through his legs, through his legs…” And winning the 1984 QF replay at Tannadice”.
Or is your favourite a less glamourous moment from the 3rd Round of the Cup? Traditionally played in January, they have been some of the coldest games ever attended! Anyone remember Gayfield in 2005?
Happy, sad, emotional, funny or a moment of sheer joy, let us know.
Please email your moment (and your name) to redmatchday@afc.co.uk and we will publish as many as well can in a special edition of RedMatchday Magazine that will be issued for the Partick Thistle Scottish Cup quarter-final. We will also share some of them online on our social media channels ahead of the big game.
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Some examples:
Theo's save 1990 from Anton Rogan. Just because of the occasion, the tension, the bedlam in the Aberdeen end twice in the space of a couple minutes when he saved it and then Brian stepped up to score the winner, our last Scottish cup win, the old Hampden etc etc. Will never forget it!!
Ally Begg
…. The Scottish Cup has always been special to me.
…. That probably stems from my first real introduction to the Dons, and as the club prepares for its 400th tie in the tournament, that fixture, the first game I really recall as an Aberdeen supporter, remains my most treasured Scottish Cup memory.
…. The affair began in Perth on a gorgeously warm and sunny day on the 14th of March 1970. It was the semi-final of a competition which had not exactly been plain sailing for the Dons, a 4-0 beating of Clyde followed by narrow victories over Clydebank and Falkirk, and now they were preparing to take on Kilmarnock at the old Muirton Park hoping to clinch a second Final appearance in three years.
…. The colour, the noise, the atmosphere that day all combined to draw me in to what has become a life-long obsession with both the club and the competition.
Richard Gordon (extract from his RedMatchday column)