Scottish officials confident they can impress
Aberdeen chief executive Keith Wyness is confident that UEFA will look favourably on the Granite city and Dundee.
The UEFA inspection team are looking at the east coast cities, including the capital Edinburgh, as part of their analysis of the Scotland-Ireland bid for Euro 2008.
The Dons are hoping to build a new stadium in the Kingswells area of the city while the Dundee clubs have requested permission from the Scottish Premier League to share a stadium in Caird Park.
But Wyness is optimistic the UEFA dignitaries will look favourably on the Scottish cities today.
Wyness told Scottish Television: “Today is very important for us.
“You can‘t win the bid today but you can lose it if we don‘t do the right things.
“It is important we show the reality of Aberdeen and Dundee and not just some of the perceptions the UEFA delegates might have.
“We have to put our best foot forward and show we are the best place for the UEFA showpiece for 2008.”
The seven-man delegation were shown both proposed sites for the stadia during the day and met with local officials and enterprise chiefs.
The group were visiting Murrayfield this afternoon as part of their visit.
They were then due to meet with First Minister Jack McConnell at Bute House, Edinburgh, tomorrow before viewing Hampden Park on Thursday.
Meanwhile, incoming Gaelic Athletic Association president Sean Kelly has hinted that he favours changing history to allow Croke Park to be used as part of the bid process.
There were fears that the announcement last week that public money would not be made available for a second stadium in Ireland would fatally wound the bid.
Taoiseach Bertie Ahern insisted the bidding team would turn towards the possibility of private funding for the new stadium.
But Kelly, who takes over as president of the GAA from Sean McCague next April, maintains he will consider the possibility of allowing the 80,000-plus stadium to be used.
Kelly told the Irish Examiner: "I certainly see the issue back on the agenda at Congress.
"But next time, it would have to be part of a detailed package and not as an isolated motion.
"Issues such as precise FAI or IRFU requirements, the net financial gain for the GAA, what the extra resources accruing would be spent on and a built-in clause that Croke Park be treated as an isolated case, would have to be agreed before the motion could be entertained again."
