Aberdeen Rangers shocker as Dons celebrate Simmy | OneFootball

We have to admit, while Rangers and Aberdeen aren’t the best of friends at the best of times, we didn’t think the Dons as a club would endorse a tifo honouring Neil Simpson very close to that date decades ago when Simpson more or less ended the career of Ian Durrant.

We know there is real hate from Aberdeen fans aimed at Rangers – look at the decapitation banner their fans unveiled for Ryan Jack when he moved to Ibrox.

But for the club as an organisation to endorse a tifo in honour of the man who committed such savagery on a potential Rangers legend in 1988, aged just 21, really is a new level of low. Or extreme tone deafery.

Durrant of course did play after that, but like Michael Mols a decade later he never managed to become the staggering player he threatened to be before that injury, and a true Rangers legend was taken away in an act of brutality.

This photo shows just how intentional it was from Simpson, and he never did apologise for it, or hold his hands up to it. He never even got booked, which is the most farcical part.

Durrant did become a great player for Rangers, just not the astonishing attacking midfielder he’d looked like becoming before being attacked, and now Aberdeen are to hold a tifo in the honour of the man who took that away.

We ‘understand’ from the fans’ point of view – they are a horrible lot and sing about the Ibrox Disaster as well as Nice One Simmy; they really are nasty and this is the kind of thing they would do.

But for the club to endorse this display, to have this ex-player come out and be applauded, and trust us, fans would have gone mental at the sight of him… is not a good look for the club at all.

Aberdeen have bowed to pressure and have played to the galleries with this one, and it’s in very, very poor taste.

This is the incident that made these clubs hate each other, and now Aberdeen are celebrating it.

Poor.