Tuesday, 1 November 2011
ABERDEEN'S JACKALS AND HYENAS
EVEN after so many years of observing Aberdeen supporters, it still surprises me when I see the depths they sink to.
Perhaps my continuing surprise is a testament to my faith in human nature. A legacy, no doubt, of Sunday school and a good solid working class Presbyterian upbringing.
But the sewers trawled by those Aberdeen supporters when they jeered at Stevie Naismith, has been enough to test to straining point any faith in any goodness of human nature in that north eastern city.
One can only wonder what was going through the mind of Ian Durrant as, on his 45th birthday, he sat and watched Naismith’s distress, and listened to the booing and baying from that pack of jackals who support Aberdeen.
No doubt his mind went back to that terrible day when, at the same ground, he suffered such a cruel fate after being the victim on Neil Simpson’s horrendous tackle.
It is already a moment he is reminded of every time the two teams meet, and the Aberdeen hyenas howl, nice one Simmy.
Yet many Aberdeen supporters are loyal members of the Tartan Army. Despite that, their hatred of Rangers blinds them to what Scotland missed in the 1990 World Cup because the injury inflicted on Durrant by one of their average players meant the most exciting Scottish midfielder of his generation was not in Italy.
The 92 and 96 Euros might have seen Scotland progress further, while Scotland could have qualified for the World Cup in 94, and done better in France four years later, had Durrant not been so badly mauled in Aberdeen.
His injury was nothing to celebrate. Which does not stop Aberdeen supporters doing just that.
It is to be hoped Naismith’s misfortune does not prove to be so costly for club and country.
Of course Aberdeen are not alone in having fans who go below gutter level. Celtic supporters, hiding behind internet anonymity, have responded to the Naismith injury with some vicious slurs, some of them of a sexual nature.
Somehow, though sadly, where the Old Firm are concerned, that is only to be expected, and has been the case for well over a century. But it is only in the last 25 years or so that Aberdeen fans have descended to the same sort of low level.
The sort of level that is beyond anybody’s faith in human nature and common humanity. No matter how good a working class Presbyterian upbringing anyone has had.
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