Dundee Preview...Fae The Red Side

John Major was PM, Dubya was just the dumb son of an ex-President, Labour was still a vaguely socialist party and Tony Blair was an up and coming shadow minister, Kurt Cobain (an Aberdonian of sorts...nae sure how he liked his rowies though) was alive and well - well, as well as anyone who was shacked up wi Courtney Love can be - and next to no one had heard of a group of gobby Mancs ca'ed "Oasis"....as fer your fitba message board and yer internet well, bar a select few, virtually non existant - oh and Eoin Jess was still a promising youngster wi bags of (still unfulfilled) potential.

Yep the world was a gye different place the last time we managed to beat the Jute manks at Todders. It's embarrassing to realise that there are now kids in secondary who've never seen us gub Dundee FC at home!

Okay, so until last year they hadnae beaten us at Dens since the mullet was vaguely fashionable and they did spend 4 of those years dossin about in their natural environment of Division 1 but why the feck has it taken us so long to beat them?

Well, first up for most of the time we were what experts refer to as "F*ckin Sho*te".

Secondly, thanks to the creative financial and accounting practices of Pedro and Jimbo Marr, Dundee have transformed themselves from a mid table/Top 6 side into....well a mid table/Top 6 side wi a huge feckin debt (£20M+)..it appeared patently obvious to everyone bar Dee fans that a side wi 6000 average crowds max couldnae afford to fund wages of 10K a week for Ravanelli and once they'd ran foul of Lizzy the Germans Taxman it came as no surprise that despite the best efforts of the in no way dodgy Anglo Italian "Lawyer", Giovanni "Honest Johnny Stevens" Di Stefano to save the club he "loved" the administrators were called in.

Since admin, gravity and reality has struck and actually making it to the end of the season in the SPL will be a major achievement for the Dees this year. Even if they do survive they may well find we cherrypick their frontline of Caballero and Lovell come June which would leave them with Lee Wilkie as their sole sellable asset....yep the Dees are f*cked!

So can we finally put them to the sword the morra and lay the bogey....well I'm gonna avoid making a direct prediction as you end up lookin a reet fanny when they dinna come off, but.....I honestly cannae see us being beat the morn. Our defence is tight than a gnats chuff in a nun's drawers these days even wi Zander out and Big Phil in, Seve is back to run the show in midfield and Mackie and Whelan seem to be finally showing signs that they are beginning to form some form of partnership in recent weeks....so bar a couple of Lovell screamer specials we should take something tommorra.

Och tae hell wi nae making a prediction...the Reds by a couple o goals...2-0 or 3-1 I reckon.

Enjoy and Stand Free where ever you may be and all that.


The Red Avenger