Tis the season to be jolly but Michael Beale reckons there’s probably a better chance you’ll be feeling lousy if you’re a member of his first-team squad. Aberdeen may have been the side left feeling sick as Rangers snatched two stoppage-time goals to steal the points at Pittodrie in midweek.
But Beale revealed his squad were not exactly feeling hale and hearty themselves leading up to their showdown with Jim Goodwin’s side. While they got the job done, it’s not been enough to protect Beale’s players from a social media savaging as disgruntled punters picked through another less-than-convincing display.
But the manager revealed skipper James Tavernier has been suffering with illness this week yet chose to drive himself up the A90 and on to the squad hotel, only joining his team-mates on the bus trip to the stadium. Defenders Connor Goldson and Ben Davies were thrust back into action having only trained a couple of times while Glen Kamara, John Lundstram and Alfredo Morelos also played through the pain barrier.
