The last home game produced one of the most enjoyable 90 minutes I have spent at Pittodrie in years.

The team was superb against Motherwell, every individual contributing to what was an outstanding offensive performance, one which looked likely to produce a goal with every attack.

There were many memorable moments, so many highlights to look back on, and you know the players are in a supremely confident frame of mind when Ash Taylor is trying to blast in a 30 yarder and Adam Rooney attempts an outrageous angled volley from a magnificent 50 yard cross-field pass by Kenny McLean.

It was a night when we could easily have hit double figures, such was our superiority.

But when those of us who were lucky enough to be there look back on that game in the years ahead, there will be one major talking point – the flash of sheer genius displayed by Ryan Christie as he nonchalantly flicked the ball into the top corner, scoring what has to be the goal of the season.

I’ve been watching the Dons since 1970 and that has to be up there among the best goals I have seen us score. In fact, it may well be the best in terms of outright brilliance.

But it did get me thinking back to the other contenders.

There was the one scored by Charlie Nicholas against Celtic in February 1990. Bobby Mimms cleared the ball, Hans Gillhaus nodded it on and Charlie blasted his volley over the head of Pat Bonner.

It was as uncomplicated a goal as you could imagine, but it was stunning in its execution. I am old enough to have seen Zoltan Varga’s brief spell at Pittodrie, and I was there the afternoon when he scored a double against Celtic, the second of which was an exquisite and expertly performed lob over the flailing Evan Williams from the edge of the box. That would certainly be among my all-time favourites.

There are plenty goals that I will always remember more for their importance than their brilliance. John Hewitt’s winner against Bayern Munich was hardly a thing of beauty, but it was a priceless effort. More spectacular was a stunning goal scored by Ian Porteous a few months later, an angled 25 yard drive into the top corner at the Beach End to cap a 3-0 win over Rangers. Another which deserves a mention, and ranks highly both in terms of quality and importance, was the strike by Duncan Shearer against Dundee United in a crucial end-of-season encounter in May 1995. Peter Hetherston fed Billy Dodds and his left-wing cross was lashed first-time into the bottom corner by the big striker.

There are so many others I could reel off, but according to Willie Miller, the best goal I never saw – or at least saw only the conclusion of – was scored, by him of course, in February 1978. It was a foggy day and from the Beach End we could see only about a third of the pitch. Willie suddenly emerged from the gloom to fire past the Hibernian goalkeeper Mike McDonald and round off a 3-0. He tells me he played a succession of one-twos as he marauded up the pitch to score, and he should have had the footage to backup that claim, but the haar was so thick the cameras were switched off, and Willie’s moment of glory was consigned to the mists of time.

I would have to mull it over longer to come up with my definitive best ever Aberdeen goal, but I have no doubts as to which has been the best more generally. I was at Hampden covering the Champions League Final in which Zinedine Zidane fired home his breathtaking volley against Bayer Leverkusen – I can’t imagine anyone ever bettering that, unless Ryan Christie has something else in store…