Ducking Hell

Another cup run comes to a limp close. After another uninspiring 90 minutes we were finally undone when Willie Lyle decided enough was enough - a trip into darkest Fife to Cowdenbeath is bad enough, but there was no way he was crossing that bridge more than is absolutely necessary - and therefore, a midweek replay against East Fife was out of the question. So, he ducked. Our priority is obviously the league, but it would have been nice to go on a wee cup run and maybe get one of the big diddy teams (as opposed to the a wee diddy team). Sure enough, East Fife got a match against the team managed by Diddyman Extraordinaire - Jimmy Calderwood, whose opening gambit on Sportscene after his team had struggled past Alloa was that the pitch was a "great leveller". So, on days when every grass pitch became a paddling pool, before it became a mud bath, Aberdeen played Alloa on the proverbial "bowling green" and Alloa pulled Aberdeen down to their level!!