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Dons reject Calderwood claim

27 May 2009 - 11:30:38

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Aberdeen director of football Willie Miller has rubbished suggestions that manager Jimmy Calderwood was forced out of Pittodrie.

Calderwood left the club at the weekend following their final game of the season before suggesting in a newspaper column that the board had "plotted" against him.

"I know exactly how Jimmy Calderwood feels right now and can empathise with the pain he's going through at a difficult time such as this," Miller told the club's official website.

"I would like to reiterate that during the course of Jimmy's tenure at Pittodrie, right up to the point of the announcement of his departure at Sunday evening's end-of-season staff party, he and his team have received the full and unwavering support of the board of directors.

"I can also state, hand on heart, that I have never once doubted Jimmy's football knowledge or indeed questioned his tactics and at board level.

"That was the message I preached - namely leave the football side of things to the manager as that's what he's there for.

"Indeed, after the cup tie he refers to at Tannadice, I made the point of congratulating him for changing things at half-time and ultimately getting it right - something he invariably managed to do!"