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Bluffer’s guide to the play-offs: AFC Bournemouth

By on May 11, 2011 in the Category Bournemouth, The Seventy Two with No comments
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The League One play-offs make for familiar surroundings to Huddersfield, Peterborough and MK Dons. The wild card this season is the presence of AFC Bournemouth. Cherries fan Chris Lines gives the inside track on what to expect from the side that hung onto sixth place against all the odds. Feeling confident? How’s your form? I wouldn’t say confident, but certainly not a bag of nerves. It was looking like we would fall away during the run-in but the team have found a bit of a second wind and just about made it. Our form is a bit patchy, and we…

Five Stars: AFC Bournemouth’s best players in the 21st century

By on March 22, 2011 in the Category Bournemouth, Burnley, Championship, The Seventy Two with 4 Comments
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Under Eddie Howe, Bournemouth’s success over the last couple of years has drawn appreciative nods of approval from neutrals up and down the country. Now Howe is gone, it is the start of a new era for Cherries fans. Chris Lines, responsible for the superb Narrow The Angle blog, picks his five brightest Bournemouth stars. Jermain Defoe Given that Bournemouth once had Rio Ferdinand on loan in the 1990s, you’ve got to go some to be considered the club’s greatest ever loan signing. Defoe managed this with something to spare when he arrived in the 2000/01 season and played as…