I feel sad more than anything else about Aberdeen's thumping in Europe tonight. Mark McGhee's last game as an Aberdeen player was in a European semi-final in 1984. His first as manager was to lose 5-1 at home in a preliminary round.

I know Aberdeen and Scottish football have been overtaken by forces far beyond their control in the last 25 years. But couldn't more have been done to build long-lasting foundations on the success of a team that, for a time, was Europe's best?