Jimmy Thelin will be of interest to our game's top man and I have name for movie about Aberdeen boss – Hugh Keevins

There will be Aberdeen fans at Celtic Park next Saturday who were also inside the ground on that fateful day.

November 6, 2010. Full-time result: Celtic 9 Aberdeen 0. The Dons supporters have waited 14 years to erase the memory of the time manager Mark McGhee suffered that ignominious defeat. There was a single-goal win for Dons on the final day of the season six years ago – but I’m talking about a scale of defeat that registers on the Richter Scale as much as that humbling did on the day Celtic ran riot.

And now Aberdeen believe they have a man in charge of the club who can genuinely contemplate a win over the defending champions that would be as symbolic as it would be satisfying if it meant the ascent of the league table with no one for company. This is the fixture that kicks off what might be called Jimmy Thelin and the Sequence of Substance.

It sounds like a movie title and there is the potential for an epic turn of events. Celtic away, a revival of what used to be known as the New Firm derby against Dundee United at home, followed by Rangers at Pittodrie and capped by a Premier Sports Cup semi-final with Brendan Rodgers’ side at Hampden on November 2.

Four games. Two weeks. One block booking to determine whether or not Thelin is the real deal, or establish that his team’s scintillating start to the season has been a flash in the pan. Aberdeen need to be put into context. Jimmy hadn’t started school in Sweden the last time the club won the league title, a 40-year long omission from their record books. It has been years since the Dons last won the Scottish Cup in a penalty shoot-out against Celtic.

Charlie Nicholas scored one of the spot-kicks against his old club and he, to illustrate the passage of time, is