From a first top flight title in a quarter of a century in 1979/80, through to the glories of Gothenburg in the teeming rain, and the collection of the UEFA Super Cup at the end of 1983, Alex Ferguson’s Aberdeen enjoyed an unprecedented era of success for any Scottish side not based in Glasgow.

Knocking the Old Firm off their perch, winning the Scottish Cup in style, putting Real Madrid to the sword, and doing it with a side that was, in the main, homegrown, all the elements of Ferguson’s managerial blueprints were present and correct at Pittodrie. Steven Scrag and Dave Bowler take you through those seismic times in the Granite City.

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