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Andrew Southwick
Andrew Southwick is editor of The Away End, also contributing to the podcast. He has recently returned to University to study on Scotland's first ever sports journalism degree, having previously studied journalism and business at Glasgow Caledonian University. He also writes occasionally for the Aberdeen Evening Express and Goal.com
An ex-Aberdeen fanzine editor, he still follows the Dons all over Scotland and Europe whenever he can. He also fervently supports the national team, having followed Scotland to France 98, Wembley, Brussels, Dortmund and Milan.
Can luck take Scotland all the way to Euro 2012
Time for Scotland to make their own luck
By Andrew Southwick
The beautiful thing about football is how one goal can change everything.
There we were, looking likely to draw with one of the genuine minnows of world football, and rule ourselves out of any genuine fight to make the play-offs.
Seven minutes into injury time, Stephen McManus' goal not only raised the roof at Hampden, it propelled us into top spot in Group I.
A letter to David Leggat
Message board warriors do not speak for Aberdeen support
The following is a reply to an article by journalist David Leggat, and has been sent to the aforementioned personally.
Dear Sir,
I read your article this evening with great interest: http://davidleggat-leggoland.blogspot.com/2010/09/aberdeen.html
Do you not find it ironic that you write an article about Aberdeen having a hatred of Rangers, only to be met with replies from 'Gers supporters trying to take the moral high ground? A moral high ground which none of them managed, instead resorting to spewing out their own hatred of Aberdeen.
Why I'll never support England
They may wave the Union Jack, but England are not representing us in South Africa
By Andrew Southwick
The clock has crept into the early hours of Sunday morning. The dust has now settled and vuvuzelas quietened after England finally opened their World Cup campaign. As a Scotsman quite unashamedly on the "Anyone but England" bandwagon, I'm fairly contented at Robert Green's mistake gifting the USA what was a deserved point.
Driving home, BBC's Radio Five Live are hosting a rather animated discussion on whether the rest of Britain should be supporting England or not. The conversation ends with the suggestion that "Anyone from Britain not supporting England is an idiot."
Aberdeen reliving same nightmare six years on
Deja vu for Dons fans as the days of Steve Paterson return.
By Andrew Southwick
If I may, I would like to take you on a journey. Lets rewind the clock back six years ago, and take you to April 2004.
Aberdeen, then managed by Steve Paterson, were whimpering towards the end of the season.
The Dons were toiling in the bottom six, playing to average home crowds of under 8,000; with an attendance of 6,781 even recorded at Pittodrie.
Only a Partick Thistle side rooted to the bottom of the Scottish Premier League saved Aberdeen the indignity of being relegated to the First Division.
Just over six years ago, on April 21st 2004 to be exact, Steve Paterson's abysmal side headed to Glasgow on a Wednesday night to face the runaway league leaders.
Three days before it, a miserable Sunday had brought a 2-0 defeat. Injuries piled up and the Dons looked set to repeat the heavy seven goal defeats of the Ebbe Skovdahl era, with a side relying on youth players standing up against the champions elect.
The setting was Celtic Park. The Dons had not won there since 1992. The odds did not look good.
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