Aberdeen's pre-season plans have been thrown into chaos after Dutch football hooligans caused the cancellation of their final tour game against Go Ahead Eagles.

Police feared a repeat of violent gang fights that terrorised the town of Deventer a week ago and insisted the match is moved forward to Friday night.

This leaves the Dons with three games on successive nights, against Eredivisie side Vitesse Arnhem tonight, amateur outfit Rietvogels tomorrow and Go Ahead Eagles 24 hours later.

Dons boss Jimmy Calderwood said: "We now face a daunting triple-header because police won't allow Go Ahead Eagles to play us on Saturday, which is a real blow to our preparations.

"But if we didn't take the game on Friday we would have 10 days without a match before the season starts against Inverness, which isn't ideal either."

// posted by Paul Scott @ 3:31 am