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Aberdeen mothball new stadium plans indefinitely but Dave Cormack sends reassuring message to fans

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Aberdeen have put plans for their new £50million stadium on hold.The Dons had planned to replace Pittodrie with a state of the art new venue at Kingsford.But Pittodrie chairman Dave Cormack admits the coronavirus crisis has led to the plans being mothballed indefinitely, although he insists the Dons will survive the shutdown.Cormack fears Scottish football faces meltdown due to the pandemic and has brought in £2m of extra funding to keep his club afloat.

But he still fears for others and reckons SPFL clubs’ main focus should be to ensure a start-up plan is in place for when football can return.He said: “Aberdeen will survive, we will absolutely survive it, but what form it takes at the other end of this is outwith our control.“What is in

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