Monday 5 October 2020

An extract from The Disrupted Season: Eddie Howe needed a remedy

As it is the international break, Cherry Chimes is going to release a series of extracts from the new book release - The Disrupted Season 2019-20. The aim is just to give a little flavour of how the book covers the season, moving from one game to another and month to month as Bournemouth looked to stave off relegation from the Premier League. This first exert comes just after the defeat at home against Leicester City and the start of the international break in September last year.

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The Disrupted Season (2019-20) completes the story of Eddie Howe's reign at AFC Bournemouth 
- it's available now for £11.49 as a paperback - visit Amazon to order

The team was also leaking goals and a remedy was needed. But how would Eddie Howe find a remedy with most of his first-choice players at the back, needing time in the treatment centre?
       ‘The holes in the team are starting to show. Eddie Howe keeps shuffling the pack, but as soon as he does, another player picks up an injury. Yet, we are only just a month into the new season, and teams that get a lot of injuries usually struggle to pick up points. We are starting to see that scenario at Bournemouth. It does seem unfair that wherever Howe looks to strengthen his team, he finds that injuries pop up in places where he least needs them. Last season it was in central midfield and now it is in defence, where it is worse when players drop out of the team, as the whole solidity of the side comes under pressure.
       ‘If Bournemouth were a blanket, it would be looking more like a patchwork quilt at the moment, but the problem is that quilt doesn't cover the pitch very well.’
       I was wondering where Eddie Howe would find the positivity to take the team forward. ‘The need to see Lewis Cook and perhaps Junior Stanislas putting on their shirts again is something that Bournemouth fans might not have felt was that pressing at the start of August, but the team needs a bit of quality and new energy and these two players just might provide some of that.’ 
      We all knew what Howe needed but would the players return quickly? ‘If Howe can get a couple of players back though by the end of the international break, and I include Simon Francis in that, then the mood in the camp might well pick up as might the results,’ I commented. 

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Looking back, it does seem that even in September that fans were looking for a pick me up, or at least Cherry Chimes' hoped that the return of a few players for injury wold see a new surge in form. The importance of injuries and recovering from them was never made more clear than last season for AFCB and let's hope the team does better in that department in 2020-21.


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To order your copy of The Disrupted Season (2019-20) in paperback for £11.49 click on the link here. I have decided to support Julia's House Children's Hospice again by donating 15% of my author's earnings to the charity, so AFCB fans will be supporting the Charity to which Eddie Howe is a patron if they buy the book.

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There is also an ebook version of The Disrupted Season (2019-20) which has a final chapter giving the match stats rather than a player index, which is found in the paperback version, The ebook also has live links to the Cherry Chimes blog. Of course, you will receive the ebook instantly when you order it and it can be read on a laptop or mobile phone – it is available to download here for just £9.99.

In other news, with the transfer window about to shut AFCB has been linked with a bid for QPR winger Bright Osayi-Samuel.

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