The book isn't a chronological log of the season, but a collection of impressions and feelings, mostly from the authors of the Red Final fanzine, and if, like me, you're a Rudolph who fondly recalls the heady days of the 80s (when Aberdeen largely monopolised the domestic honours scene and defeated Real Madrid in the final of the European Cup-Winner's Cup), it makes for harrowing reading, in more ways than one.

As with the fanzine itself, the quality of writing is mixed, and I'd be hard pushed to recommend much of it to anyone other than a Dons devotee (the combination of in-jokes and simplistic abuse of other teams gets wearing pretty quickly even if you are one). There are, however, a couple of chapters worthy of anyone's attention, most notably a perceptive and thoughtful one on the sacking towards the season's end of manager Willie Miller, a hero of the Pittodrie faithful for 20 years and thought of by many as the finest player ever to wear the red shirt. (I go for Gordon Strachan myself, but that's another story). The rest is heartfelt for sure, but strictly for the faithful.