Jim Goodwin opens up on THAT Hibs walk of shame as Dundee United boss gives it the Hollywood movie treatment

IT definitely had an ‘End of Days’ feel to it. Jim Goodwin was filmed as he dejectedly made his way across the Easter Road pitch, hurtling the hoardings and exiting his final scene as Aberdeen manager.

The Dons had just been thrashed 6-0 by Hibs and the Irishman was given his marching orders minutes after the final whistle. Not even the arrival of Arnold Schwarzenegger would have saved him because the Scottish Cup defeat at Darvel and the second of two heavy beatings in the capital proved to be the final horror scene.

Goodwin admitted that some of the footage has been doctored into something like a Hollywood movie but he was simply trying to get a quick get-away. He explained: “There was a lot said about walking across the pitch at Easter Road but unfortunately that is where my car was parked. “Some of the videos I have been sent have been dramatised and it looks like something from a Hollywood movie.

“But I can assure you, I was looking for the quickest route to my car. The steward pointed me in that direction and that was the way I went.”

The former St Mirren boss doesn’t harbour any grudges against anyone at Aberdeen because he knows he was the one who fell short. “Of course, there was a lot of hurt and disappointment but there wasn’t a lot of anger,” Goodwin insisted. “I have no ill-feeling towards Dave Cormack and Steven Gunn. I have taken responsibility for what happened.

“For whatever reason, for the past couple of weeks I couldn’t get the boys going again. I still believed they were with me. A number of senior players had spoken to board members and assured them they were still behind me and believed in me.

“But sometimes in football you just can’t turn it around and that appeared to be the case at that