AFC Bournemouth made the long trip to the north east to face Newcastle United, now of course, managed by Cherries legend Eddie Howe.
Eddie Howe is the man who will forever be associated with AFC Bournemouth, the greatest escape avoiding relegation to non-league football despite a seventeen-point deduction and almost certain oblivion, promotion the following season despite a 16-month transfer embargo.
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“He went to Burnley and then he came back”
Within 6 months of his return, he moved the Cherries out of the relegation zone of the third tier, to the top of the division earning promotion in that very season, just two years in the Championship and a third promotion was secured and followed up with the Football League title.
He then established the Cherries in the top flight of English football, keeping the potentially the smallest club that has ever been in the Premier League there for five years only to succumb once a global pandemic hit the world and the only failure of goal-line technology in the Premier League history.
He’s since gone on to do rather well at Newcastle United, dragging them kicking and screaming out of the relegation zone all the way to the UEFA Champions League in less than two seasons. A crippling injury crisis has had his side struggling at times this season however, not even legends and gods and mythical creatures can have everything all their way all of the time.
Howe also hasn’t been able to beat his former side at any juncture either and with AFC Bournemouth head coach Andoni Iraola bringing the excitement back to the Dean Court faithful, it was Howe’s side who was fortunate to get any kind of result on this occasion.
A VAR interference to give a penalty for a shirt pull, over-ruling offside rules and then a stoppage-time equaliser, by none other than Matt Ritchie.
After the match, Iraola told Sky Sports…
“I can’t accept the first goal. It’s an offside position. I’ve been talking to the referees and I’m not smart enough to understand the explanations. If we were only talking about the foul, it’s a soft foul, but at set pieces everyone grabs and they’ve not called anything over the season. I can accept the foul but someone is in an offside position.
“The ball goes exactly where he is, affects the play, and they’ve spent five or six minutes. The VAR doesn’t show the referee the wide angle so he can’t take the decision on the offside. It’s very, very, difficult to accept. We deserve a little bit of respect. We are Bournemouth. We are a small club. But we deserve much more respect.”
Iraola added…
“I’ve been really upset with decisions in the last three games. Against Fulham and Nottingham Forest they were not decisions that affected key moments but I was not happy with the refereeing. But today has affected. It’s irritating as we’re only going to talk about the referee decisions and not how good my players played. They will talk about the decision and try to bend the rules but it is what it is.”
Man of the match against NewcastleSolanke
Cook
Tavernier
Semenyo
Scott
Kelly
Christie
Kluivert
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R1chardA
It was a good game of football (I was there) and I’d agree we were robbed, not just robbed of three points but of a better game. After Solanke poached the first goal Newcastle really upped their game and we had to ride the wave of their pressure, and we did, we reacted to their reaction and it was a proper good contest. We’d started to gain momentum and it was swinging back in our favour through a lot of endeavour, skill and intelligence from our midfield who were outstanding. The penalty sapped a lot of that momentum and I’d say Semenyo’s goal was against the run of play at that stage of the game. The ref continuously broke up the flow of the game giving too many fouls (because the Newcastle players asked for them and the officials seemed hell-bent on not letting them lose) it was a good game, but it could have been great, even magnificent. We played some beautiful football and to be fair they were also good with Gordon looking dangerous throughout and some dangerous balls into the box. We deserved to win and I think the officiating was just too partial.
VAR confirmed he was offside but the line was something like he was fouled before the “impact” of him being offside therefore they can ignore the offside.
purbeck67
This must be one of those where the officials have to follow the letter of the law otherwise they will get a poor assessment.
It’s starting to be like rugby where there are so many technical infringements requiring a thorough understanding of complicated rules.
We are a long way from the simple game of Association Football.
High praise for the man in form 🙏 pic.twitter.com/6JrFv6KoDE
— AFC Bournemouth 🍒 (@afcbournemouth) February 17, 2024
canadiancherry
Cracking game! If we play like that every week, I’d be seriously entertained.
But I can’t really believe that it’s a penalty because he has no chance to play the ball. Makes sense, sort of, but totally stupid.
NWCherries98
Interesting debate then. It seems like it’s the correct decision overall, but that rule is genuinely stupid. I’m still not convinced it’s a penalty though, because the contact started outside the box. And I’ve seen us not get plenty of penalties for that exact reason. Just seems like they spent 5 minutes scouring the rule book to justify giving a pen lol.
I would also make the point that if the actual physical rule book needs to be dragged out to explain a decision, in this day and age…it’s probably not a clear and obvious error. The onfield decision was no pen offside, and we somehow arrived at no offside, penalty!
One of these days, it would be nice to have all of the contentious decisions that benefit US, examined with a fine toothed comb for 5 minutes. I’m still yet to be convinced that VAR actually even bothers examining half of the things that get waved away.
top support as always , thank you❤️ @afcbournemouth pic.twitter.com/LvdE0kOERR
— Alex Scott (@AlexScott_7) February 17, 2024
alwaysacherry
I for one thoroughly enjoyed my trip to St James’s Park. Very tasty burrito followed by several excellent pints in Head of Steam which in turn was followed by 100 minutes of very entertaining football.
I’m a massive fan of the way we are approaching games, for me we were the better team pretty much throughout despite the refs very obvious bias towards the big home team.
I’m not one to blame players when mistakes lead to a goal. Mistakes at both ends of the pitch are part of the game but shirt-pulling in your own area is a bit daft.
Johnny Comelately
A draw was disappointing but, the VAR farce aside, not particularly unfair.
Kluivert definitely makes a real difference when he plays and we look much more threatening with him playing behind Solanke. Cook had another excellent game and, hopefully, like Solanke is finally fulfilling his promise. Definitely need another Right Back as Smith is struggling now. I didn’t think Neto had a bad game at all but he doesn’t inspire confidence and if Travers isn’t up to it then we need to spend of few bob and get someone better. Overall though a much better team performance than last week and a decent result. – To join the conversation, click here.
