McGinn wants 50/50 ticket split for final

trip to Glasgow to see a Lewis Ferguson header set up yet another final showdown with Celtic, after the sides clashed in both major finals in the 2016/17 season.

On those occasions, the Pittodrie club’s Red Army snapped up their full allocation of briefs, and McGinn believes that they deserve the chance to sell out 50 per cent of the stadium once more at what is, after all, a neutral venue.

“It has to be,” said McGinn. “We have shown in the past, the last time we played Celtic in the Scottish Cup final we filled half the stadium. And when we won the League Cup we took over 40,000 to Celtic Park when we played Inverness.

“Finals should always be half and half, no matter who the teams are. We know that we are a big club and we know that we are definitely capable of bringing 25,000 fans.”

McGinn feels that criticism of Aberdeen’s stay-away supporters for Sunday’s famous victory was unfair, and he thanked those that did come along for helping to push them over the line and into the final.

“As players it’s not something we can do too much about,” he said. “We just have to get on with it. It’s always nice to have a big support but last season Motherwell were outnumbered against Rangers in the Betfred Cup semi-finals and won 2-0.

“Regardless of the numbers we still heard our fans sing today and that pushed us on. The Rangers fans got a bit anxious towards the end and that was a positive for us. We kept their fans quiet and we could hear our fans singing. And thankfully we won so it’s happy days.”