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[[Aberdeen FC]] (nickname: the Dons) is the city's only senior football club. Home matches are played at Pittodrie whose name derives from the Pictish for dung heap. The current manager is [[Jimmy Calderwood]].
[[Aberdeen FC]] (nickname: the Dons) is the city's only senior football club. Home matches are played at Pittodrie whose name derives from the Pictish for dung heap. The current manager is [[Jimmy Calderwood]].
===Sharggers===
In Doric, the Scots dialect used in Aberdeen and surrounding areas, a shargger is a farmer. As sheep farming is the predominant agricultural industry in the North East of Scotland, Aberdonians are often refered to as the sheep sharggers (Sheep farmers)