Liverpool v Bournemouth
AN ARTICLE BY MIKE
<So a little background for our 4KK’s overseas posters. Bournemouth, situated on Englands south coast and slightly more upmarket than many seaside resorts with several miles of sandy beach and a sophisticated night life. A University town with a large International Languages School making the sights on the beach are a joy in the summer. Cue the song Peaches by Stranglers. It is conjoined like a Siamese twin with Poole. Probably the largest retirement home in the UK, Bournemouth is a wealthy town, its population make up consists of 50% early retirees made up of business owners, ex CEO’s and high ranking civil servants who spend most of their days trading their share investments online in the morning then out for a sailing in the afternoon. The other 50% are their despicable, leeching and entitled offspring who race about town in their garishly coloured convertible over tuned sports cars bought by mummy and daddy. Biding their time in sales jobs until its time to purchase a home when mummy and daddy fork out again for the deposit, then its just a matter of the few years until the inheritance arrives. I may be oversimplifying things here and my comments slightly green tinged. On the join between it and Poole is Sandbanks, a cliff top promontory which boasts the 4th most expensive real estate in the world with some interesting residents such as ‘Arry Rednapp, Jamie his son, Graeme Souness and Tony Pulis to name a few. Oh and Maxim Demin sole shareholder of AFC Bournemouth.
Poole is a different kettle of fish as it’s a more commercial town than Bournemouth and where honest people actually work to contribute to society. Boasts one of the largest natural harbours in the world and a small port including car and truck ferries to Jersey and France. Its the home of the famous Sunseeker company who manufacture multimillion pound motor yachts, a lot of which are bought by their near neighbours, and not forgetting the Ryvita factory of course, it is a pleasant place to visit with a lovely frontage to the harbour port and you can chug around the greater harbour in a pleasure cruiser for a tenner if you so desire. The two towns together have a combined population of 400,000 which is the size of Nottingham or Leicester so not a sleepy place and definitely worthy of an EPL team. A better name for the team would be AFC Bournemouth and Poole Albion maybe.
Having lived in and worked from Poole for 4 years and the fact that its my closest PL team I hold a little soft spot for AFC Bournemouth. Formed in 1889 as Boscombe (a local suburb) blah,blah, blah through the years until 1971 when they adopted their current name and nickname, The Cherries, with a strip deliberately inspired by Inter Milan. Blah,blah, blah through the years to 2008 when they entered administration for the second time and were relegated to L2. along came their saviour Eddie Howe. Beginning his playing career in the club academy he has been appointed coach and the magic begins. They survived relegation after starting the season with -17points. With him they won 3 promotions in 6 years (interrupted by 2 seasons he spent at Burnley) finishing up in the PL in 2015 where they stayed until 2020. Howe resigned feeling he took them as far as he could and has rightly deserved the chance to coach Newcastle where he is making steady progress. Through the years there have been some dealings with the Reds what with lucrative sales of our cast offs in the guise of Ibe and Solanke.
Now to the present and Scott Parker (who always reminds me of Thunderbirds in name and appearance). Accused at Fulham for “Parkerball” dull, insipid, conservative, milksop, benign, safe, and boring are some of the adjectives that were used to describe his style of play I can’t see any change at Bournemouth and without Mitrovic to help with 40 goals will be on their way back down end of season. Apart from their 2-0 win against Villa they shipped 7 goals without return against City and the Arse. At Anfield don’t expect the free flowing attacking footy of the previous Bournemouth under Howe but expect the 9 man defence and the balls over the top to catch us out. Probably end up as an attack v defence training game once again. This must be a win for us or things are going to get very sticky for the team and Klopp. A solid 1-0 win will do to get the Leviathan that is this club moving and hungry again. Not going to predict the team as everything appears to be in flux at the moment and I’m only going to get it wrong.
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