Jim Leighton is back at the club that made him famous. He is back at Pittodrie as goalkeeping coach after being approached by new manager Craig Brown. The new management team of Brown and Archie Knox wasted no time in recruiting the Dons' legendary keeper to oversee the key position. They need all the experienced help they can get as they sit ignominiously at the bottom of the SPL. Asked how long it took to accept Brown's offer, Leighton, who had two spells at Aberdeen as a player and who was on the backroom staff for nine years before being released last summer by former manager Mark McGhee, said: "I don't have anything that calculates it, it was that short. It's great with people that you respect, people like Craig and Archie, to come in and ask me to come back. I was delighted and I take that as a compliment that the two of them wanted me to come back so there wasn't a decision to make. I was delighted. I know how ambitious and enthusiastic the two of them are. Hopefully we can get the team back winning again and getting us back where we should be. I've always been on record saying that this is my team. Regardless of what happened to me it always will be my team and I didn't like to see where the team was going. Hopefully I can play some small part in the team going back to where everybody wants them to be." |
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