John McMaster blown away by Port Glasgow Juniors as Aberdeen legend helps breathe new life into the Undertakers

They may be known as the Undertakers, but Port Glasgow Juniors are alive and kicking.

Greenock boy and Aberdeen legend John McMaster has come on board as an ambassador and is helping breathe new life into the club. The Gothenburg great has been there and done it in the game, lifting six trophies as a key member of Sir Alex Ferguson’s all-conquering Dons side of the 1980s.

But what he’s seen since getting involved where it all started for him has blown the Gibshill native away, and he’s dying to tell the whole country about the good work being done on his doorstep. "I’m proud of them, and I said that, but I told them they had to sell and promote themselves,” he told Record Sport . “And they are now. Their nickname is the Undertakers and my mate, big Raymond Shaw, who actually asked me to do it, said: ‘If we’re called the Undertakers, why have we not got someone in that business sponsoring us?’ So he went up to the local funeral directors in Port Glasgow. ‘Look, we’re the Undertakers, why are you no sponsoring us?’ And they sponsored them right away!”

“I said I’d go up and see the committee, have a meeting and see what was happening. I knew some of them anyway and I always looked for the Greenock and the Port Juniors results when I was at Aberdeen. I still do, because they’re just on the doorstep.

“I asked what they wanted me to do that was ambassadorial and it was just 'Come up, see the fans and get a blether with the players'. But I asked ‘What’s your script? What have you got here?’ What they have is 400 kids a week and 68 coaches coming into the club from Monday to Friday. That blew me away.

“I love coaching and improving people. That’s what Fergie always used to say: ‘Get your badges, do the coaching and then take