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Originally Posted by GirlySports
Congrats Rich!
AFC Bournemouth wins 3-0 today, ensuring promotion to the Premier League for first time in club history
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Wow, the best 2 days of my life. Ever.
It all kicked off with the series win against those dirty Canucks early on Sunday morning, involving a grown man reduced to tears at 5am. First playoff series win I've ever seen, that was so special.
Then, less than 48 hours later on Monday night, the very same grown man reduced to tears yet again (blubbing for fully the last 15 minutes of the game in a busy pub) as AFC Bournemouth, barring the craziest set of results ever witnessed, clinched promotion to the Premier League.
It's an amazing story of rags to riches. I've been going for about 30 years now, since I was a little kid, through thick and thin, and there's so much emotion there that's built up over the years.
The club has had many highs and lows... from almost going out of business at least 3 or 4 times, points deductions, but at the other end of the scale, I've seen two "Great Escape" seasons (
here and
here), plus a
Wembley Cup final defeat and a
playoff final win along the way.
Such a rollercoaster. And they are still my beloved Bournemouth.
Yes, we have a very rich Russian owner at the moment, but we haven't really splashed the cash as a team in our position might have... 7 or 8 of our first team regulars were playing for us at the bottom of League 1 a couple of seasons ago, and our net spend over the last couple of years is zero (ignoring a £2m outlay on Tokelo Rantie a couple of seasons back who has really struggled to make a name for himself).
We're pretty well run (currently!), have the best young manager in the country, and maybe half a chance of staying up next season? Who knows... I'm normally a glass half empty person...
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Originally Posted by Addick
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Haha, I loved this tweet.
Charlton have been very good hosts this coming weekend... they even moved some of their own season ticket holders from their usual seats to accommodate an extra 1,400 Bournemouth fans, so thank you! (Assuming you don't actually beat us 19-0)...
Looking forward to some Premier League chat about "plucky little" Bournemouth next season folks!
Cheers! Up The Cherries... In All Departments!