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Aberdeen's new stadium could be the catalyst to lift the Dons into a new era of football success.
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The artists' drawings for the , which will glow red at night, look stunning and iconic.
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Such a setting for football should prove attractive to would-be signings and will hopefully generate much bigger crowds for the club.
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I have some great memories of and can recall travelling up on the school mini-bus from Dundee for the European Championship qualifier versus Belgium on 10 November 1971.
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That night, in a packed crowd of 36.500, we shoehorned our way into a heaving Beach End, which was bouncing like the Kop in its heyday.

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How much is a game of football worth?

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The tickets available are priced at :

Category 1 - £300

Category 2 - £225 (or £338 for an adult and child package),

Category 3 - £150 and Wheelchair - £80, as well as a £26 booking fee.

No matter how much you love your football, those prices bring tears to the eyes.

They also beg the question, how long until football's overpriced bubble bursts?

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So live to fight another day. It's been a day of immense relief for the Dens Park club as they get through their and start the process of emerging from their second spell of administration.

Those who lost their livelihoods can be forgiven their simmering anger at their treatment, but it's the nature of football fans that, while they may sympathise with those who lost jobs, .

The culprits who led Dundee down this path have escaped with a financial hit but have been spared the agonies of the supporters.

"Lessons will be learned" is the most abused phrase in football. But this time lessons must be learned.

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Is it time to put a great big brick through the ?

As readers of this blog will know, a fair chunk of my time in the last few weeks has been taken up chasing non-stories, half-stories and, now and again, true stories regarding which players were going where in the January window.

It's the time of the year when rumour, innuendo and fact merge seamlessly into a hotch potch of transfer speculation, usually started by the boy in the pub whose brother drinks with the groundsman, who was on a bus with somebody's uncle, who told him that was definitely coming to because his favourite auntie lived in .

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