Aberdeen boss Mark McGhee is determined to carry on in charge despite the 9-0 thrashing by Celtic at Parkhead - the biggest defeat in the Pittodrie club's history. However, McGhee, who is in his second season in charge of the club where he was a hero as a player, said: "I want to be the manager of Aberdeen Football Club. I have a little group of players here that can do okay.

"It went horribly wrong today but it doesn't change my opinion of that and as long as I'm the manager I will go out for the next game and then the next game until someone tells me different.

"I know what the board and chairman were thinking before this game and I have no idea if that result changes their opinion.

"I have been doing this a long time and it was only one game, as horrible as it was. It is only three points.

"It was a freakish result. Not in the sense that Celtic deserved to batter us but freakish in the sense that it was the first time in my career that I've ever lost by anything like this.

"But I have got to imagine that I am going to be the manager of Aberdeen on Tuesday night against Inverness and I have to prepare my team.

"I will be in tomorrow morning training and I have to go through that door in the morning and give them a message and give them a story that they will believe will take them out on Tuesday night and win a football match.

"I will go up the road, lie in the dark and stare at the ceiling and then get up in the morning and go down there and make it work."

Former Celtic striker McGhee, whose team have taken only four points from the last 27, is hoping the Dons fans retain their faith.

"I hope that the fans who were here will think about that first half hour and what might have been," he said.

"I'm not saying that if we had scored first we would have won the game but we showed we had a plan that was reasonable and working to a degree. After that we were embarrassed.

"I don't think anyone hid. We just weren't good enough. It was one of those games where everything that could go wrong, did go wrong.

"But for the first half hour it was okay and we have to take that in to the Inverness game and forget about this.

"I don't expect there will be any big hangovers.

"We will put this behind us and if we get three points on Tuesday night it will be the three points we didn't get today and we can do that."