Written by kirsikka
With no football on and suddenly a lot of time on my hands, I decided these can come out a little early. After all, who knows if the season will finish and it might be a small welcome distraction for some.
All my own opinion and liable to suffer from my memory being a bit pants meaning better options could have been overlooked. Still, hopefully, some nice (and a few not so nice) things to relive for you.
This is part 3, for part 1 click here, for part 2 click here.
— Biggest AFCB Brainfart —
Steve Cook deciding to get himself sent off and give Norwich a penalty by, in an era of VAR and multiple cameras, diving as clear as you like to save the ball. Some may excuse it as instinctive but that’s letting him off the hook, it was idiotic and cost us dearly.
If you really want a reminder, here it is:
— Worst Opponent Tackle —
A toss-up between Billy Jones on Stanislas for Sunderland in Jan 2016 and Knockaert for Brighton on A Smith last season.
I’m giving it to Jones because I can’t find a video of it but in my head, it’s as bad a tackle as I’ve see and yet he somehow escaped a red card.
To sate your bloodlust, here’s the Knockaert one:
— Best Team Performance In the PL —
Thrashing Hull City was fun. Some of those close wins and fightbacks have been immense. However, to go away to one of the current PL royal family and stomp all over them 3-0 was one of life’s joys. Savour it like a fine cheese on a freshly baked cracker.
https://www.afcb.co.uk/videos/201718-highlights/short-chelsea-0-3-afc-bournemouth/
— Best Period Of Play In the PL —
Ripping Wenger’s team apart with swift passing and attacking verve shocked me it was that good. We were destroying one of the best teams in the world. It’s a shame we let one in and then allowed nerves to take over which ultimately led to dropped points. The performance up to conceding is burned into my memory though.
https://www.afcb.co.uk/videos/201617-highlights/highlights-afc-bournemouth-3-3-arsenal/
— Most Disappointing Single Performance —
Wherever you stand on our relationship with that lot up the road, I think we can all agree that being the only south coast club in the PL would have been an enjoyable achievement. So, safe from relegation, we found ourselves in position to almost relegate a bedraggled Southampton. Instead, we played like a team that had big money on them staying up and, buoyed by their win against us, stay up they did. I’m not sure we’ll ever get an opportunity like that again.
— Most Disappointing Aspect Of PL Life —
Before we kicked out first PL ball, I harboured a belief that if we could survive a season we might carve out a lower mid-table niche and have a crack at the cups each season. Then, with a little bit of luck, we may even take home some major silverware for the first time in our history.
It’s fair to say, this season aside, our league performance has exceeded what I thought we could do. Our cup performances though have very often been utter tripe. Up there with Blyth in their ineptness at times.
I understand the rationale but it still makes me a little sad.
— Biggest Opposition Whinger(s) —
There are a few contenders here. If we’re anything to go by, you should be wary of judging a club by those who post on its forum. However, even given that, both Brighton and Stoke fans excelled themselves in their sanctimonious twaddle.
Brighton fans complaining about a wealthy owner funding another club up through the leagues and Stoke fans complaining about what they consider to be dubious tactics from the opposition were breathtaking in their lack of self-awareness.
They still pale into insignificance in comparison with the winner though. A man who can’t get through an interview without somehow shoehorning into it how he doesn’t get to spend the kind of money you see spent at ‘the likes of AFCB’. Except when he does of course, but then he conveniently forgets that.
The fact that VAR cheated us out of two results against them this season rankles even further. You don’t hear him talking about that a lot though, do you?
Sean Dyche. He makes me want to puke.
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