DrewDon

We started well enough, especially with Duk's running causing Dundee issues and incurring three bookings, but once Dundee got to grips with him then they were the superior team - as they have been in all three games against us now, in fairness. We needed a bit of luck and Dundee profligacy in the second half to get out with a point, and it was probably a point more than we deserved. I can't say anybody was particularly good for us, but I thought McCowan was particularly impressive for Dundee and they moved the ball well, looked like a team with a good mix of physical and technical qualities at times. It's poor from Shinnie at the end, but basically captures our lack of control and general rashness in microcosm. Duncan hasn't played a lot of football lately, and I don't want to single him out because nobody was good for us, but his performance from the bench with the exception of one half-decent cross was one of the poorest I have seen from an Aberdeen player. He finished last season really promisingly under Robson as an understudy for Shinnie and Ramadani respectively, but he looks broken right now. I wouldn't have minded Phillips getting some minutes, especially as he is the most natural replacement for Shinnie next week. I suppose he hasn't been out for too long so could still start, but surprised we didn't chuck him on for ten or twenty minutes at the end when Shinnie was clearly running on empty. More broadly, I suppose it is four unbeaten, but variance has caught up with us over the last couple of games after maybe riding our luck a little bit to narrowly beat Motherwell and County, and we were fortunate not to lose today. Still not a good team, still not well coached, and absolutely deserve to be where we are in the table. If anything, the attacking patterns have disappeared since Warnock walked away, and the defence remains as fragile as ever despite somehow having three clean sheets in the last four games.

Ange needs to learn that you can’t saunter into our league, play like this and expect to get away with it. You aren’t playing against Stirling Rovers now, ‘mate’. Painfully naive from the Australian.

That is the most obvious but also unsatisfying explanation.

Obviously if the ball goes either side then it is straightforward, but when the ball goes out for a corner kick by going over the crossbar in a football match (e.g. the goalkeeper tips a shot over the bar), how does the referee decide which side the corner should be taken from? I have been watching football for over two decades now and the few people I have asked about it have not known the answer. It came to mind again tonight when I was watching a game. There is presumably a very straightforward answer.

Mike buying up the domains is my favourite Apprentice bit.

I actually despise the woke mob, I really do.

It's Yimmy Tee-leen, by the way.

I have never really had any feelings about Dundee FC, either positive or negative, but I have an outrageous amount of respect for them at the moment.

What does the data say about Barron, out of interest? I wonder if he is one of these players who impresses a bit more through the eye test.

I think he is destined to play at a higher level, and it doesn't surprise me that Serie A clubs like him, but it is a bit disappointing that we have never really seen Barron in a genuinely good Aberdeen team with proper coaching. Aberdeen, and Scottish clubs in general, don't produce many players like him.

I think they are slightly underselling how bad a miss that is from Wood.

Sorry, meant Fernandes from the halfway line and then a Mainoo screamer. The concept is broadly sound, though.

Superb stuff.

You just knew that was happening with Liverpool wasting about a thousand chances in the first half.

The more the game continues like this, with Liverpool completely dominating and racking up decent scoring opportunities at 1-0 without scoring, the more clearly I can picture Fernandes' equaliser from the penalty spot followed by Hojlund's last-gasp winner.

I don't think Silva's one is a penalty, but it is exactly the sort of incident where you could essentially justify playing on, awarding a penalty, or issuing a booking for simulation without any of those on-field decisions being considered a clear and obvious error. The bar for intervention in Scotland seems too low for me, just as a personal preference, and has been since VAR was introduced.

If Liverpool win the title with a team of ten year olds in Klopp's last season then it is the best underdog story in football history.

It's a GAFTSG (Great Advert For The Scottish Game).

Idah is such an odd player. Sometimes looks really handy, like at that goal, but other times looks like he has never seen a football before.

I'm not going to lie, I went full Celtic conspiracist for about two seconds when Beaton looked like he was pointing at the centre spot after checking the disallowed goal.

That's a really embarrassing decision. Walsh is one of the better officials and I'm surprised he's decided to intervene there.

There is an opportunity for Southgate to do something very funny and recall Hart for the Euros as third choice.

Increasingly convinced with every passing game that Arsenal, if anything, underpaid for Declan Rice.

The last three games have confirmed to me that there isn't much at all between us and any team from about Motherwell downwards, even Livingston although they are obviously a bit adrift points-wise. We are a very bad team, unbalanced and poorly coached, but thankfully have a little bit more individual quality that we have fleetingly been able to utilise at least the two games before today. Our laughable off-field incompetence and the ridiculous managerial circus obviously hasn't helped matters, but there can be no doubt at all now that the league position is a fair reflection of this group. What a mess Dave is making of this.