John McMaster was part of an Aberdeen set-up that believed it would beat Rangers or Celtic every time they travelled south to Glasgow.
How he wishes the current crop of players wearing the same red shirt would display the same self-confidence. Times change, of course, but Gothenburg Great McMaster remembers a period when he was part of a Dons squad who didn’t believe they could challenge the Old Firm before two managers steeped in the opposite sides of the Glasgow divide arrived in the Granite City and altered the footballing landscape in the late 70s and early-to-mid 80s.
The success of Sir Alex Ferguson, the former Rangers striker, became the stuff of legend at Pittodrie but McMaster believes the squad he inherited from Celtic icon Billy McNeill laid the foundations for glory that every Dons boss - including the current manager Jim Goodwin - has tried and failed to live up to.
