
After Aberdeen’s 3-0 loss to Rangers at Ibrox on Wednesday, Joe Lewis, a favorite at Aberdeen, slapped a frustrated Pittodrie fan for calling captain Graeme Shinnie a coward.
After the disappointing defeat at Govan, where the Swede’s team barely managed to defeat Rangers despite winning the match at Pittodrie earlier in the season, Jimmy Thelin’s team is currently without a win in 12 Premiership games.
Aberdeen supporters have launched an inquest into the performance, heavily criticizing a number of the team’s senior players, including captain Shinnie, Sivert Heltne-Nilsen, and Kevin Nisbet, who is on loan from Millwall.
But after one Dons fan accused every man in red apart from stopper Ross Doohan of “utter cowardice” on Wednesday night, Lewis – who hung up his gloves last year after seven years in the Granite City between 2016 and 2023 – leapt to the defence of his old teammate Shinnie.
Responding to the claims on X, Lewis replied: “Outrageous comments. Shinnie a coward? Say what you like about form, ability or performance but if you think Graeme Shinnie shows any cowardice in the way he plays football you are miles off it.

Thelin will be hoping to arrest his side’s dreadful run of form when they face League Two side Elgin City at Borough Briggs in the fourth round of the Scottish Cup on Sunday.
Aberdeen reached the semi-finals of the competition last season but have not lifted the Scottish Cup since 1990.