Mark McGhee vowed to carry on as Aberdeen boss in the wake of the 9-0 thrashing by Celtic at Parkhead - the biggest defeat in the Pittodrie club's history.
Dons' skipper Paul Hartley and Hoops defender Thomas Rogne were both sent off while hat -tricks from Gary Hooper and Anthony Stokes added to a goal from Joe Ledley, an own goal by Pittodrie substitute Josh Magennis and a late penalty from Parkhead substitute Paddy McCourt saw the Dons on the end of a racord SPL beating.
However, McGhee, who is in his second season in charge of the club where he was a hero as a player, said: "I want to be the manager of Aberdeen Football Club. I have a little group of players here that can do okay."
He added: "It went horribly wrong today but it doesn't change my opinion of that and as long as I'm the manager I will go out for the next game and then the next game until someone tells me different.
"I know what the board and chairman were thinking before this game and I have no idea if that result changes their opinion.
"I have been doing this a long time and it was only one game, as horrible as it was. It is only three points.
"It was a freakish result. Not in the sense that Celtic deserved to batter us but freakish in the sense that it was the first time in my career that I've ever lost by anything like this.
"But I have got to imagine that I am going to be the manager of Aberdeen on Tuesday night against Inverness and I have to prepare my team.
"I will be in tomorrow morning training and I have to go through that door in the morning and give them a message and give them a story that they will believe will take them out on Tuesday night and win a football match.
"I will go up the road, lie in the dark and stare at the ceiling and then get up in the morning and go down there and make it work."
Source: PA
