Chris Crighton

1 month ago | pressandjournal.co.uk | Chris Crighton |Danny Law

The ultimate iron fist in a velvet glove is the concept of efficiency. A pretext invoked by sociopathic governments to visit harms upon those least able to counteract them, in the superficially unarguable name of economic prudence. Efficiency, in its purest form, would have deleted the need for fixtures like Saturday’s to exist at all.

Jan 16, 2025 | pressandjournal.co.uk | Chris Crighton

For the second time this season, Aberdeen are on a sequence of results which has happened just once before in club history. Just as 1970/71 was the only previous campaign in which the Dons had won 13 straight games, so is 1926/27 now the only campaign which has contained a winless run comparable to that they are still interminably enduring.

Jan 13, 2025 | pressandjournal.co.uk | Chris Crighton

Scouting at Pittodrie is a distinctly cosmopolitan affair these days, but perhaps there was a more local hand at work last week. Students of the Scots language may have wondered whether, in the absence of any other solution to their longstanding problems, the desperate Dons had elected to try a wee bittie of nominative determinism. After 13 games without a clean sheet and reduced to shoring the gaps with midfielders, Aberdeen’s defence could have been said to be in need of a good tobering.

Dec 9, 2024 | pressandjournal.co.uk | Chris Crighton

It is probably a reasonable indication that it isn’t going to be a team’s day when it concedes the opening goal by virtue of one of its players kicking the ball into his own face. James McGarry cannot be faulted too harshly for his doomed attempt at clearing the cross: he could scarcely have legislated for it landing in his own dish, and then onto Makenzie Kirk’s plate.

Dec 5, 2024 | pressandjournal.co.uk | Chris Crighton

Aberdeen could never have expected to have fair winds at their back for the duration of the season, and they have now navigated the first inclement period of the campaign. From driving snow to howling gales, the four tough assignments they have just schlepped through will have felt like a harsh winter in comparison to the heady summer preceding it. From one end to the other, though, it lasted a mere 12 days, and there will be aching limbs in the Pittodrie ice bath today.