AFC Bournemouth v Southampton- FA Cup Quarter-Final

afcdibby said:
A convoy of three ellison coaches was seen travelling through Ringwood this afternoon. Quite possibly the Saints team coming down, but seems a really strange thing to do in the current climate for a game 30 miles away.
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Yep, you would have thought they would have flown. ;)
 
Bucklandman said:
Here's his Goal
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Brian's a lovely guy. He lives in Llandaff and I've called on him a few times when AFCB have been playing Cardiff and Swansea pursuing my autograph collecting hobby. My son who was with me on one of the trips ended up fixing Brian's tv!

He became a professional tennis coach in Canada after he retired and then came back to be stadium manager at Loftus Road.

It was one of the worst decisions AFCB ever made to sell him for £500 to QPR as Brian became a goalscoring legend at Loftus Road being their top scorer for most seasons he was there and is still there second highest goalscorer.

He loves his golf still and at 87 plays off a handicap of 20 at Llantrisant GC.

The other Cherries player that I visited a couple of years ago and I think he is still alive is Arnold Woollard. He's 91 this year and lives in Bedfordshire. He had good memories of his time being a Cox's Pippin. Arnold is a legend in Bermuda.

Unless anyone knows better the oldest living AFCB player that I have visited is Louis Bimpson. He's 92 this year. Started out like Ted at Liverpool but his career highlight was playing in the FA Cup final with Blackburn Rovers.
 
LewSwimmin said:
LB looked like he was 92 when he played for us :(
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The Blackburn Rovers 1960 FA Cup Final included three very good and well known forwards, Derek Dougan, (222 Lge goals 46 NI Caps) Peter Dobing (201 Lge goals) and Bryan Douglas (36 England Caps and 11 goals and 100 Lge goals as a winger). Ally Macleod, later Scotland Manager was on the left wing and even he scored 80 goals in his career.

A lot less well known was Louis Bimpson but he must have been good, if not very good, to play with such illustrious team-mates and to play in the First Division and to have just played in an FA Cup Final.

If Cherries fans had had access to stats and the TV coverage we have now, expectations might not have been sky high. Eleven appearances and one goal later and Bimpson's journey from First Division and an FA Cup Final to the Fourth Division and Rochdale was completed in less than a season.

Cherries have signed many players who failed to meet fans expectations but you have to hand it to Louis, his unwanted reputation is still intact after sixty years.

Apart from the FA Cup Final appearance his other career highlight was scoring all four for Liverpool in a 4-0 defeat of Burnley in 1953 in the old second division. Don Welsh was Manager at Liverpool and had signed Bimpson and it was Welsh who signed him for us in the summer of 1960. It didn't do Welsh much good either as he was gone by Feb 1961.
 
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New Forest Cherry said:
agreed, should be the same rules throughout the whole competition, end of
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Perhaps you want to play every game on the same pitch, same lighting and temperature, same weather, same ref, ball etc.

No two games have the same circumstances, the important thing is that it's the same for both teams within each game.

Arguably the turning point of our season was a wrongly concluded sending off, so no issues with having best chance of correctly officiated game today by having VAR.
 
thegazzyb said:
I think COWS are saying that Billing HAS been called up for Denmark, it appeared today IIRC :confused: Of the others, we could probably cope with the odd short term injury should the worst come to the worst on international duty. By all accounts, barring a slaughter tomorrow, we should be in decent shape after the international break :thumbup:
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let's hope Phil can get his hair cut in Denmark, if that fringe gets any longer it's going to be a problem for the run-in
 
The first chance since 57 for any Cherries players to eclipse that achievement...all I'm asking is that the effort of those players is equalled..and it would be great for the surviving members of that team to see us a reach the Semi...a tribute to them.

When Bedford scored v Utd...they say you could hear the roar across the channel.
It was quite rare in giant - killing to take out two top clubs in a row..three almost happened that year and would have been almost unsurpassable...

It was the stories of those games that got me hooked as a 10 year old.
 
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