Match Of The Past: AFC Bournemouth
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The 200% Pre-Season Previews: League One
With the Championship starting last night, the Football League season is already underway, but League One kicks off later this afternoon. And after a season where so many sides looked...
AFC Bournemouth’s Local Paper Banned – Chairman Edddie Is At It Again
The relationship between a local newspaper and its closest football club can be a mutually beneficial one. Football remains the one item on the news agenda that is more likely...
The Continuing Adventures Of Chairman Eddie Of Bournemouth
For most of us, the idea of drinking alcohol whilst at work would be to stretch the imagination just a little too far. The days of long, boozy lunches in...
AFC Bournemouth: There’s Something About Eddie
It was a minor exchange among ‘readers’ comments’ in Bournemouth’s Daily Echo newspaper. But it summed up much about AFC Bournemouth under current chairman Eddie Mitchell. The exchange concerned the...
Eddie Mitchell Gives Bournemouth Some Unwanted Publicity
If the start of this season in League One has been notable for one thing, it has been for the under-achievement of those clubs which arguably over-achieved last season. After...
Those We Have Lost: Dean Court, Bournemouth
Losing a ground doesn’t always mean moving to a new venue. AFC Bournemouth bulldozed Dean Court, spun it around ninety degrees, and rebuilt it as a three-sided ground. For Andy...
The Twohundredpercent Play-Off Jamboree: Huddersfield 3-3 Bournemouth (4-4 Agg)
In League One, the sense that this was to be the year of the south coast started to grow as winter turn to spring. Brighton & Hove Albion soared away...
Match Of The Week: Bournemouth 1-3 Southampton
At some imperceptible point, somewhere between January and March, the football season switches its rhythm. No longer can one look at the league table, work out the gap between your...
Whether For Pragmatic Reasons Or Emotional, Eddie Howe Has Made The Right Decision
We have mentioned the madness surrounding the current employment of football managers on this site before in recent weeks, but today there was a rare outbreak of common sense as...
Light At The End Of The Tunnel At Bournemouth
Even I’m getting bored with my cynicism these days, so I can only apologise to you. The moment I saw the ice being applied to Wayne Rooney’s “injured” ankle at...
AFC Bournemouth – Football Club Pays Taxes Shock!!!
The more mischievous sub-editors at the Bournemouth Daily Echo must have been tempted to produce the above headline when chairman Eddie Mitchell recently announced that AFC Bournemouth had indeed paid...
Bournemouth & Cardiff’s Risky Strategies
Two clubs that haven't yet resolved their differences with the taxman are AFC Bournemouth and Cardiff City. Mark Murphy has been taking a look at both clubs, and finds a...
Match Of The Week – AFC Bournemouth 0-4 Rochdale
It was first against third in the table in League Two this weekend, as Rochdale made the long journey south to play AFC Bournemouth. It was a match that was...
Bournemouth’s Transfer Embargo Continues
AFC Bournemouth overcame a seventeen point deduction to stay in League Two but, as Mark Murphy writes, their problems didn’t finish there. It could be argued that the greatest condemnation...
Football, Finances and League Two
The new League Two season has started with everybody financially stable – more or less – but Lincoln City supporter Keith Duncombe doesn’t feel that the authorities are going far...
Match Of The Week: AFC Bournemouth 1-0 Chester City
It’s not what we’d want, this points deduction business, but it is making the bottom of League Two very interesting indeed. There is a definite feeling that, having seen the...
Trying To Get Inside The Mind Of The Football League
Back in the day, struggling Fourth Division clubs had to regularly undergo the annual ordeal of re-election, in which the bottom four clubs in the table along with any non-league...