Celtic Park triumph was a teenage dream for youngster

It would be the classic tale of local boy done good.

Scott Wright is a proud Aberdonian and was a starry-eyed youngster when the Dons lifted the League Cup in 2014.

Yet to make his firstteam debut, he nonetheless experienced the big day out at Celtic Park, with Aberdeen defeating Caley Thistle on penalties to end their long wait for a trophy.

Now, with a place in the final of the competition at stake this weekend, the chance is there for him to live the dream himself.

He said: “I know what these appearances mean to the people here and a semi-final is massive for us, especially at Hampden. There’s an extra incentive because it’s Rangers but we can’t get carried away with it being Rangers or a semi-final. We know it’s a big game but can’t get caught up in the hype and be carried away and must stay focused on our jobs.

“It (2014) was such a big thing for the city, never mind the club. We took 40,000 to Celtic Park and that was unheard of. It was a massive thing and I’m sure it would be a massive thing again if we could do it. It was my first year fulltime and I remember going to the game and there was a function afterwards we all went to. The rest of the boys went out on the town and I had to go home as I was just a little pup. I have great memories of it but I would love to be properly involved in the team now and really feel as if I’ve played a part in doing something.

“That season I was on the fringes, hadn’t made my debut, trained here and there with the first team. It was a case of ‘If this is what is there for me, I want more of it’. It was a case of getting my head down and training hard and proving to the manager I deserved to be in his team.”

The game at Parkhead was hardly a classic; it finished 0-0 after extratime, with neither side showing the intensity required to stave off the inevitability of penalties.

But the celebrations afterwards, thanks to spot-kick misses by Billy Mckay and current Don Greg Tansey, were worth the wait. The Dons had gone 18 years without a piece of silverware, since winning the same competition in 1995, when Duncan Shearer and Billy Dodds saw off Dundee and Stephen Glass, somewhat sheepishly, received his man-of-the-match bicycle on the pitch.

Wright has been with his home-town club since joining the under11s age group. Raised in Balmedie, eight miles north of Aberdeen, to Dons-supporting parents, the club was always likely