Source: PA
Brown: We can't let down home fans
Craig Brown has urged his Aberdeen players not to let down their home support after treating their travelling fans to consecutive victories.
Scott Vernon's injury-time goal earned Aberdeen a 1-0 victory at Hamilton on Wednesday in front of almost 1,300 visiting supporters, who defied the afternoon kick-off to witness Brown's men follow up the win over Hibernian. Brown and Archie Knox have already taken more points in two games since arriving from Motherwell than their team accumulated in the previous 14.
Aberdeen had not kept a clean sheet or won consecutive Clydesdale Bank Premier League games since August, and Brown has implored his players to spread some cheer to the Pittodrie fans when Dundee United visit on New Year's Day.
Brown said: "The fans can't be delighted with the performance but they can be delighted with the attitude of the players, the organisation and determination.
"The Dundee United game will be a very good one, I hope, and we don't want to let the fans down at home. There will be so many sitting at home saying `we couldn't get to Edinburgh, we couldn't get to Hamilton, so we'll go and see them this time'.
"So the message is quite clear to our guys - don't disappoint the bigger support. We will lose a game but hopefully not for a while. I'm hoping we can replicate what we did at Motherwell. That was very fortunate, we went 12 (SPL) games unbeaten there, but that's getting greedy."
