Pittodrie, Aberdeen
Pittodrie Stadium, home to my beloved Aberdeen. Pittodrie has 4 seated stands all of different size. Behind one goal is the small Merkland Road Stand, mostly filled by families. Opposite is the double tiered Richard Donald Stand. Here you will find the place that Aberdeen songs are sang. Only bad thing about this stand is when you are at the very top, the goals below are difficult to see. But you get a great view of Aberdeen City. To one side of the pitch is the old looking Main Stand, which runs the length of the pitch as does the South Stand opposite. The South Stand is where the away fans are situated and the roof doesn't cover the whole length of it. Apart from that you get a pretty good view wherever you are seated.
Pittodrie is also host of the most memorable nights in my history of being an Aberdeen fan. On Thursday the 14th of February Aberdeen were welcoming German giants Bayern Munich to Pittodrie for a Uefa Cup knock out stage tie. The build up to the game could not be more intense by the fact Aberdeen was suffering traffic congestion and by the previous round result of 4-0 v Danish champions Copenhagen. The sound of the horns Aberdeen handed out to fans were ringing in my ears from a fair distance from the stadium. The stadium was full and there were a lot of Bayern fans too. Aberdeen wore their famous red kit and Bayern used their change strip of all black. 
As we got in, the game had already started and as my dad had just got comfortable sitting down with his pie and coffee, a loose ball in the Bayern box fell to on loan midfield Sone Aluko and he rolled the ball to fellow on loan midfielder Josh Walker who curled a low shot past Rensing in the Bayern goal. The stadium erupted in cheers and the fans were loving it. Cries of "Stand Free" were sung all around the stadium and the atmosphere was spectacular. 
Aberdeen were giving it their all and this was just as we wanted. But as expected, Bayern were dangerous and equalised through Miroslav Klose latched onto a free ball in the Aberdeen box and showed his class as he comfortably put the ball past Jamie Langfield. We expected Bayern to go on the rout now but there was more to come from Aberdeen. Sone Aluko was causing the Bayern defence all sorts of problems and a touch of class from the Birmingham youngster saw him control a flick from Lee Miller on his chest and he lifted the ball over Lucio and hit a low volley past Michael Rensing. Rensing should really have done better but we didn't care. A touch of pure class by the youngster sent the crowd wild. This was to be the last of the goals for the first half. Even the P.A announcer was excited as he read out the scoreline at half time.
The 2nd half produced the same effort from both teams, but it was to be in favour of Bayern as they got awarded a penalty. A cross from the left was judged to have come off the hand of Alan Maybery and Hamit Altintop stepped up to take the penalty. It was originally saved by Langfield but Altintop followed up to equalise. Disappointing as it was it didn't put Aberdeen or the fans confidence down. We still sung our hearts out and almost scored a late winner but Zander Diamond's header was put just over the bar. 2-2 was the final result and it had been a fantastic end to end game. As much as we would have loved to win, a draw was still a really good result and it was deserved too.
