Craig Brown's first visit to Fir Park as Aberdeen manager since leaving Motherwell was a crucial one for the Reds to win if they wished to be playing in the top half of the Scottish Premier League table after the split.

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There were darker areas on it that might have been portholes, but the strangest thing was that the dome would be solid one moment, transparent the next, so that Mr Taylor could see the fir trees through it, as if it was trying to camouflage itself.

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The Fir Park pitch is currently playable as the under-soil heating has been on constantly since the bad weather began.

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It is said that the Romans often cut down a fir tree to keep in their houses during the sparse winter months as a form of appeasement to the goddess Ceres (originally Demeter, Greek goddess of the hearth).

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The schoolboy was shot in the car park of the former Fir Tree pub in Croxteth when he was caught in the crossfire between two gangs as he left a nearby football pitch.

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Noble Fir forms the base, accented by such unusual-for-holiday plant materials such as lavender, globe thistle and pearly everlasting.

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