Our live Saturday match in the Clydesdale Bank Premier League on ESPN will rightly go down as a classic. Yes, it sometimes takes sloppy defending to produce the kind of spectacle we witnessed at Pittodrie, but this was Scottish football at its most compelling.

Most of us in the television commentary world wait for lulls in play to introduce relevant factoids and side stories affecting the particular game we‘re covering. This past weekend it was impossible to find any pauses, such was the cut and thrust of this high energy confrontation. Not that I was complaining! Co-commentator Craig Burley and I settled back and lapped up a thoroughly breathless ninety minutes.

After invigorating occasions like this one, I feel it’s important that we talk up our own football. Goodness knows, we’re often very quick to do it down.

This was an SPL classic in its own right. Think back to the 4-4 draw between Liverpool and Arsenal last season. It was given its due and is still put on a pedestal south of the border. We should accord Saturday’s epic the status it merits: Scottish match of the season, indeed many a season.

That Aberdeen came from 4-2 down to earn a share of the points makes the outcome far more palatable to the home supporters than it does to the deeply frustrated Celtic contingent. As has so frequently been the case this season, Celtic’s defending had that old glass jaw quality about it. More on that in a moment.

Tony Mowbray was correct to point out after the match that at least one area of the Celtic team is working. You can’t argue with 10 goals from three games. Particularly eye-catching was the second Celtic goal which saw captain Scott Brown lead by example, going on a splendid run with the ball at his feet. Robbie Keane was then content to be architect rather than finisher, passing beautifully to Marc-Antoine Fortune who swept it home at the far post. In an attacking sense, Celtic were at their most irresistible at the weekend.

Keane is now off the mark in the SPL which can hardly hurt his confidence. Mind you, questions were fairly asked about Mowbray’s decision to withdraw his expensive asset with 15 minutes to go and the game not in the bag.

Now back to that glass jaw. Three of the Aberdeen goals all had in common, the fact that Celtic failed to clear the ball away with authority. No one in the side looked composed on the ball amid all the constant harrying from the home side. They weren’t helped by the fact that Glenn Loovens and Jos Hooiveld were both missing, but all too often Celtic have appeared vulnerable at the back this season. The problems appear unlikely to go away quickly.

The Dons’ penalty of course was down to a bizarre handball by Edson Braafheid. The Dutchman did little in this match to make a case for himself to national coach Bert Van Marwijk. In truth, Aberdeen could have had an earlier penalty when Artur Boruc caught the lip of man of the match Steven MacLean.

For Aberdeen, Saturday’s stirring comebacks (they fought back on three separate occasions) might just kick start what has been a perplexingly erratic campaign.

Mark McGhee knows he must now get it right on Tuesday against Raith Rovers in the Cup. But his players can feed off the fervour of Saturday lunchtime. In addition to MacLean, who starred with a brace, Darren Mackie and Michael Paton were excellent and both were on the score sheet. We’ll have Aberdeen’s next home SPL game live for you on ESPN at the end of this month, incidentally.

The yawning 10 point gap at the top between Rangers and Celtic can likely be bridged, only if Celtic win both Old Firm games, and just about all their other remaining matches, while hoping their city rivals stumble. Stranger things have happened, but it remains the Ibrox club’s title to lose.