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Aberdeen manager Jim Goodwin, pictured arriving at a game last April, has left just 19 minutes after a 6-0 loss to Hibernian.
Heard the political phrase “gone by lunchtime”? Well, Scottish Premier League club Aberdeen and manager Jim Goodwin parted company just 19 minutes after a “humiliating’’ 6-0 defeat.
Goodwin – who signed All Whites striker Alex Greive at his last club, St Mirren – was on notice after Aberdeen’s embarrassing 1-0 Scottish Cup loss to sixth-tier Darvel last weekend.
Club officials demanded an immediate response against fellow Premier League under-achievers Hibernian.
But Aberdeen shipped six goals and no time was wasted before Goodwin departed.
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“Jim is a good man, has given it everything here,’’ Aberdeen chairman Dave Cormack told BBC Scotland.
“I met him right after the game and he came up and gave me a hug and simply said, ‘I know, Dave, it’s just not good enough’,”.
“So we part company for obvious reasons.”
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Jim Goodwin with his Aberdeen players after a Dundee United game last season.
Aberdeen are one of Scotland’s biggest clubs outside Old Firm rivals Celtic and Rangers, but they have slipped to seventh on the table – leapfrogged by fifth-ranked Hibs and Goodwin’s old club St Mirren, who beat Motherwell 1-0.
Cormack, a 64-year-old who has supported Aberdeen for almost 60 years, said he thought “some of the players also need to take responsibility’’.
“Like the fans, I felt quite humiliated today and I’m sorry – they were brilliant today. I am quite emotional about the club. It means everything to me.”
Goodwin switched to Aberdeen in mid-season last term, but endured a horror time in the 2023-23 campaign.
As well as their Hibs shellacking and Scottish Cup embarrassment, the Dons were also beaten 5-0 by Hearts.
Goodwin, 41, earned one cap for the Republic of Ireland and captained St Mirren to victory over Hearts in the 2013 Scottish League Cup final.
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