Originally Posted by
BogBrush1903
Well maybe not forgotten because I've just started a thread on him but for someone like me, who attended my first game in 1984, he's not a player I really associate with the Dons. However, he won a League Championship medal and was an integral part of the 1979/80 first XI and (I think) until recently was our second most expensive outgoing transfer.
He also did a great two footed lunge challenge on an Oldco player in either the Scottish Cup Final or Scottish League Cup Final of 1978.
However, we never read or hear Archibald discuss us in the press, we don't see him appear at half-time at Pittodrie for a wave and pick a winning ticket, we don't see him in any features in the local press or any programmes.
I liked the story about him when Ferguson asked him to hand back the match ball after he scored a hat-trick and he walked into the boardroom where Fergie was sipping tea and said, "here's your f@cking ball" and volleyed it towards the manager and sending the cups into the air.
Perhaps a very individual player with little attachment to the clubs he played for...maybe that's the reason
But I heard when he left for Spurs, many Dons fans adopted Spurs as their English team because of their adoration of the player.