Klose Encounters Aberdeen Aberdeen the Bayern Draw has Transformed the Club and Left Fans Dreaming, Says Michael Grant

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AS they boarded the plane it seemed like one of the most pointless trips in the history of European football. In the early hours of Wednesday, February 6, two bleary-eyed Aberdeen officials checked in for a flight out of Edinburgh Airport.

Hours earlier they had watched their team lose 4-1 to Dundee United in the CIS Cup semi-final at Tynecastle. The purpose of their flight? To plan for what would happen once the Dons had knocked Bayern Munich out of the Uefa Cup.

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Klose Encounters Aberdeen Aberdeen the Bayern Draw has Transformed the Club and Left Fans Dreaming, Says Michael Grant

It felt like a grim joke. Uefa insist that every club in the last 32 of the - tournament have to prepare for their potential opponents in the final 16: in Aberdeen's case, Anderlecht or Bordeaux. So it was that Duncan Fraser and David Johnston flew out while feeling so dejected they...

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