Aberdeen angst, argued properly.
Red Tinted Glasses follows Aberdeen through league and cup weeks with detailed supporter analysis. It balances tactical complaints, managerial scrutiny, and the fragile relief of a rare good result.
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Red Tinted Glasses is a supporter-led Aberdeen FC podcast with its feet planted firmly in the week-to-week emotional weather of the Dons. It reviews and previews matches, but its real texture comes from the way it worries at the reasons behind a result. A win is not just celebrated. A draw is weighed as one point gained or two points dropped. A defeat is picked apart through shape, effort, selection, confidence, and the recurring sense that the same problems keep returning under different managers. Recent episodes circle around Stephen Robinson’s arrival, the length and logic of the managerial search, and the question of whether the squad can respond to more blunt home truths. The show is especially attentive to how games are actually lost. Fullbacks being exposed, players failing to track runners, defensive lines looking unorganised, and high-press ambitions meeting the reality of the available squad all become material for extended argument. Refereeing decisions and VAR interventions get serious attention too, particularly when a penalty, red-card check, or delayed whistle changes the early shape of a match. There is space for optimism, but it is usually qualified. A rare three points can lift the room, while still leading to questions about the next fixture, the wider run-in, and whether the feeling will last. Cup ties bring their own pressure, from trips to Morton and Dunfermline to the hope of reaching Hampden. The show also carries the rhythms of live fan conversation, with YouTube comments and away-day talk folded into the analysis. It assumes listeners already know the club’s recent context. That gives the discussion a useful density: names, fixtures, tactical problems, and fan frustrations are treated as shared ground rather than explained from scratch. The tone is measured rather than theatrical, but the frustration is real. Red Tinted Glasses suits Aberdeen fans who want the match replayed in the mind, argued over properly, and placed inside the larger story of a club trying to steady itself.
Made for: For Aberdeen supporters who follow the Dons closely and want detailed reaction to league form, cup ties, managerial decisions, and tactical problems. It best suits listeners already comfortable with Scottish football context.
What sets it apart: The show combines live supporter feeling with patient, specific match analysis. It is strongest when turning frustration into a clear argument about shape, effort, selection, and responsibility.
Red Tinted Glasses “A weekly preview/review podcast of Aberdeen Football Club games. Glen, Phil & Calum offer up their honest opinions on all things AFC”
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Close Aberdeen analysis connects results to tactics, confidence, recruitment and the shifting pressure around the club.
Red Tinted Glasses turns Aberdeen results into frank, detailed conversation while the emotion of the match still feels close. Glen, Phil and Calum move between performances, selection decisions and managerial pressure without reducing a bad run to one easy culprit.
A 3-0 defeat at Ibrox gets the Aberdeen postmortem your group chat can't finish.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A rare Aberdeen win becomes a grounded discussion of penalties, VAR, shape, and the relief of feeling better.
Red Tinted Glasses works best as a release valve after a run of gloom, with the presenters finally able to pick through three points rather than another setback.
Aberdeen's defensive shortage, Elvis Bwomono's possible role and the main concerns before the trip to Paisley.
Aberdeen's return to club football finds the squad short at the back and weighing a late free-agent option before the trip to Paisley. Elvis Bwomono is considered as practical cover, though his reported opportunity in Iceland and need to rebuild fitness complicate the picture.
A worried Aberdeen debate that links a damaging defeat to player responsibility, managerial doubt and fading faith.
Red Tinted Glasses turns Aberdeen's damaging weekend into a wider conversation about responsibility, belief and whether a different managerial voice can shift anything.
A Scottish Cup postmortem that uses one defensive lapse to question the Dons' effort and organization.
Red Tinted Glasses opens on the Dons' Scottish Cup disappointment against Dunfermline and keeps its focus on the irritation beneath the result.
A slow opening becomes a useful measure of the Dunfermline test and the unresolved manager search.
A slow start sets the tone for a review that is less about one poor spell than the questions it raises. The hosts weigh up the idea of a more intense, front-foot approach against what the team produced in the first 20 minutes, before moving into the continuing uncertainty around…
A 3-0 Ibrox defeat leads into a wider Aberdeen debate about depth, belief, and the results that shifted the mood.
Red Tinted Glasses uses Aberdeen's 3-0 defeat at Ibrox as the way into a broader look at a performance that cannot quite be filed away as one bad night.
A measured Aberdeen post-match review that gives supporter frustration context without pinning the whole defeat on one striker.
Red Tinted Glasses treats Aberdeen's latest 2-0 defeat as a sober post-match reckoning, moving through the flat start to the season, the shortage of points and goals, and a striker visibly low on confidence.
Rivalry panic with tactical receipts.
Hosts Glen, Phil, and Calum react live to Aberdeen's 3-0 defeat at Ibrox against Rangers, describing it as a disinterested performance.
The hosts of Red Tinted Glasses analyze Aberdeen's 2-0 home defeat to Celtic, leaving the team with zero points and zero goals after two league games.
Andy Skinner joins the Red Tinted Glasses podcast to review Aberdeen's 1-0 win over Kilmarnock at Rugby Park and discuss the team's upcoming European trip.
A preview of Aberdeen's upcoming match against AEK Larnaca, with discussion of their recent 1-0 victory at Rugby Park.
A preview of the Scottish Cup final between Aberdeen and Celtic, focusing on building positivity and belief among Aberdeen fans.
Adrian Bevington’s Red Tinted Glasses interview focuses on his first two weeks as Aberdeen CEO and plans for the club’s football and business operations.
Red Tinted Glasses reviews Aberdeen's rare league win over Hibs at Pataudry, a result that gave the Dons their first league victory since Livingston at home in late January.
Red Tinted Glasses uses an April Fools recording to preview Aberdeen's trip to St Mirren, where a three-point cushion, goal difference, and the relegation-playoff spot frame the week.
Red Tinted Glasses frames Aberdeen's 4-1 defeat at Ibrox around the question of whether the club should be worried yet.
The hosts discuss Steven Robinson's first match as Aberdeen manager, a 1-1 draw against Falkirk, and debate whether it feels like one point gained or two dropped.
The hosts discuss the controversial appointment of Stephen Robinson as Aberdeen's new manager after a lengthy search, expressing frustration with the board's process but urging fan support.
Red Tinted Glasses focuses on Aberdeen's Scottish Cup defeat to Dunfermline at East End Park, where the hosts say the Dons were "dismantled" and "embarrassed" by a well-organised Championship side.
Red Tinted Glasses examines Aberdeen's 2-1 defeat to Celtic at Potaudry, where Kieran Tierney's set-piece goal and Kevin Nisbet's penalty set the tone.
A preview of the Morton vs Aberdeen cup match with insights from a Morton perspective.
A preview of the upcoming Aberdeen vs Celtic league match with guest Colin Watt from Celtic State of Mind.