AC Millan edge out the Cherries 1-2 in Cummings' Testimonial

AFCB 1 v 2 AC Milan

Warren Cummings' Testimonial

2 September 2016

Dean Court was the stage for an epic meeting this afternoon of two red and black teams as a testimonial was played between AFCB and AC Milan for Warren Cummings. There was little goal mouth action first half but in the second Milan went ahead after Suso scored, but it was quickly equalised by Lys Mousset who scored his first goal for the Cherries. Within second of the restart though Jordan Holmes brought down Niang who then scored from the penalty box. But the day was all about Warrren Cummings and there were great cheers when he came on and made his first pass with 10 minutes of the game to go. Always a favourite with the home crowd it will have been a great pleasure to many to have seen him wearing the AFCB kit once again.

A chance to think about yesteryear for AFCB fans.

AFCB's XI was very popular as it included a debit for Jack Wilshire and Tyrone Mings made his first start since being injured last season against Leicester City. Emerson Hyndman would also make his debut in front of a home crowd and it was the first chance for Junior Stanislas to stretch his legs. Finally, Ollie Harfield made his first team debut at left back.


OFFICIAL TWEETS from AFCB and AC Milan

01: We are underway here in the rain at Vitality Stadium! Warren Cummings is amongst the subs. Come on #afcb

9' Sosa fires a shot wide of the far post from distance

05: Chance! Wilshere involved, he beats his man on the right, squares for Grabban who slices an effort in the box wide!

15: A third of the way through the first half, #afcb on top in the rain. Grabban's chance the most clear cut of yet. Still 0-0.

17: Great effort! Wilshere curls a lovely left footed shot towards the bottom corner, but Gabriel does well to keep it out!

17' Gabriel springs to his right and claws the ball away

25' Niang's shot won't trouble Allsop

30: Good chance! Pugh's deflected effort reaches Grabban who hits an effort which cannons off the defender from eight yards! 

40: Five minutes to the break. #afcb are still in the ascendancy but haven't created a glaring opportunity.

43: Save!! Milan's first chance, Niang was slipped in one-on-one but Allsop stands firm to deny the striker's low effort

44' Allsop does well to keep out Niang's shot

HALF TIME: #afcb 0-0 #Milan - Cherries on top in @wcummings28's testimonial but no goal to show for it.

52: Afobe gets down the left hand side, steams into the area and his high shot forces Gabriel into a decent stop.

55: Grabban slides the ball through to Stanislas and in the area from an angle, he has an effort well blocked. Better!

55' Paletta makes a vital intervention in the box
56: Stanislas cuts in from the left and puts in a dangerous ball which Mousset just misses in the middle! Unlucky!

58: Another good #afcb chance! Afobe finds Stanislas who slips in Mousset who is free but he's well tackled when about to shoot in the box!

60: Hyndman cuts in from the right and hits a low effort which is straight at Gabriel from 20-yards. Cherries upping the tempo.

61: Now Mousset goes close! He smashes a low effort in the box which fizzes just wide of the far left corner. #afcb well on top!

61' Mousset drags his effort wide 

62' OUT Lapadula IN Zanellato

64' Gooooooal! @suso30oficial! #afcb vs #ACMilan 0-1

GOAL for @acmilan. Suso buries it. #afcb

64: Suso picked the ball up on the edge of the box and curled a precise effort into the bottom left corner. 0-1 against the run of play.

GOALLLLLLL for #afcb!!! Mousset smashes one in!!!

65' Goal @afcbournemouth, Mousset #afcb vs #ACMilan 1-1

65: His first goal for #afcb! Mousset smashes an effort from the edge into the right corner of the net! Lovely strike!!

PENALTY to @acmilan.

66: What a few minutes... Niang was brought down by Holmes in the box. Niang will step up....

GOAL for @acmilan. Niang converts. 1-2.

67' Gooooooal! @MBaye9Niang! #afcb vs #ACMilan 1-2

68: McCarthy has been booked for a late challenge on La Ferrera.

71: Save! Suso gets free in the area and hits an effort which Holmes manages to claw away.

72' Holmes keeps out a close-range strike from Suso

79' OUT Gabriel, Pasalic IN Plizzari, Curto #afcb vs #ACMilan 1-2

80: Sub for #afcb - Warren Cummings is coming on to a massive reception!! He replaces Harfield.

81: Cummings' first touch, a simple pass, is met with huge cheers!

83: Crossbar!!! Pugh swings in a cross, Mousset rises highest and powers a header from eight yards against the bar!! Still 1-2. #afcb

84' Brilliant fingertip save by Plizzari!


90: @MMJBournemouth's man of the match for today.... Number 28... Warren Cummings!


90: Post!! Buckley swings in a ball which Mousset meets and hits the post! In the melee after, the ball was blazed over!

90' OUT Abate IN Pobega

Full Time / Fischio Finale #afcb vs #ACMilan 1-2!

FULL TIME: #afcb 1-2 @acmilan - Mousset scores his first as #afcb appreciate club legend @wcummings28.

AFCB XI
Allsop, Stanislas, Mings, Jordan, Harfield, Gosling, Hyndman, Wilshere, Pugh, Grabban, Afobe

AFCB Subs
Holmes, Buckley, Cummings, Lee, McCarthy, Worthington, Dobre, O'Connell, Ndjoli, Mousset


AC Milan
Gabriel; Abate (C), Ely, Paletta, Vangioni; Pasalic, Sosa, Suso, Niang, L.Adriano, Lapadula

AC Milan Subs
Plizzari Curto Spinelli Zucchetti Careccia Pobega Zanellato La Ferrara

AFCB are in good company with AC Milan

While from the outside there is only the shirt that puts AFCB in the same kind of company as AC Milan, there has always been a vision that the Cherries could become a side that was good enough to play against the Rosseneri as equals on the same pitch. The fanbase, stadiums and price-tags of the players may be a world apart, but the riches of the riches of the Premier League has already started propelling the Cherries closer towards the world status of giants in the game like AC Milan.

For Warren Cummings, this Saturday must seem a million miles away from the sides he used to run out against in League Two just a few years ago. The Cherries were never high achievers and winning the Associate Members Cup was about as good as it got, but the trophy cabinet is looking rather crammed full these days and Warren will look back on his career I hope as having played an important part in putting AFCB on the right course during the years when there simply was no money at the club and everything was a struggle.

AFCB welcome AC Milan to Dean Court.

Warren was club captain and spent some 10 years at AFCB and left in the May of 2012 just before Eddie Howe returned in October that year to guide the Cherries to promotion and the Championship. This is a chance for AFCB fans to give him a proper thank you for his time at the club and it is great that he is still playing at Havant & Waterlooville, where Lee Bradbury is still the manager. Warren may not be a Paulo Maldini but he was always proud of the AFCB shirt and played with great passion and humour.

So who should we look out for in the AC Milan team? I imagine it will be a full first team so we could see Alessio Romagnoli who is a defender that was chased by Chelsea this last transfer window and is valued at more than £35m. Jose Sosa is a midfielder that many will recognise as the Argentine has been playing in Europe for a while now and is 31. But this is a transition team with Vincenzo Montella being charged with rebuilding a side that only finished 12th last season in Serie A. Don't be surprised if the Italians find AFCB a hard team to break down. 

Poole Town game next up for Cherries

I expect a lot of you will be able to get a close up glimpse of the Cherries as they set up against Poole Town on Monday. This traditional fixtures always marks the forthcoming season with a bit of competitive sparring between the two local teams and we already know that one or two guests will be on Poole Town's team with Warreen Cummings and Darren Anderton set to take to the field.

Other ex-Bournemouth players at the club include Dan Thomas (keeper) and Jordan Chiedozie (striker), while Jonathan Muleba (defender) of AFCB spent some of last season on loan with the Dolphins. Steve Devlin in midfield and Richard Gillespie were the players notching up most of the goals for Poole Town in their Calour Premier league last season. Finishing seventh was a pretty good season for them, but promotion will be their aim as we head into a new season.

Chiedozie should be on view at Tatnam.

Having travelled back from Austria at the weekend the first team won't be featuring for AFCB, but the team will be made up Development squad players. The game is also a testimonial game for Taffy Richardson. The game kicks off at 7.45pm.

Well the World Cup is over and for the next four years we can all hail Germany as the World Champions. I would like to give a big than you to Kyle Cotter who has been helping me out with World Cup Chimes these past few weeks. World Cup Chimes now has Kyle's World Cup final report on view.

Narrow win for AFCB over Dorchester as Chiedozie does it again

Dorchester 0 v 1 AFCB

24 July 2013

Attendance 505

AFCB went to Dorchester with a fairly young team and they certainly had their work cut out against a Magpies' side who would love to score a major upset. It was great to see that Ryan Allsop was able to play in goal and Eunan O'Kane was back in midfield, to give the Cherries some quality and drive. Donal McDermott and Jayden Stockley had another chance to do more in front of Eddie Howe and youngsters Harry Cornick and Josh Wakefield were also selected.

Just like last week there was also an old favourite who turned up in AFCB colours. It wasn't Mark Molesley this time, but Warren Cummings who recently left AFC Wimbledon and was another player between clubs trying to get some match fitness. It is good to see the club help old some of the old favourites - careers are so short these days.

According to the Echo the trialists starting for Bournemouth included Immanuel Parry from Stoke and Elloitt Legg from Hayes & Yeading.

Here are the main official tweets from AFCB on the action.

The game started with Dorchester seeming to be doing most of the pressing. After 6 minutes Walker gets the first shot of the game away but his low drive from the edge of the area proved to be an easy catch for Allsop. Again, Dorchester came forward on 15 minutes as Clough headed towards Allsop's goal but it went wide. A minute later Watson sent a low shot in towards the AFCB goal and while Allsop dived it trickled just wide.

Beasley then tried his luck from the edge of the area but his shot was caught by Allsop. Still no clear-cut chances, but it seemed that Dorchester were finding their feet quicker than AFCB from all the one-way tweets.

Clough rose well on 34 minutes to meet a teasing cross into the AFCB area but his header skimmed the crossbar and went over. Close one!

Then it was a shock to hear that AFCB had actually had a shot on goal on 37 minutes. Bassele shot from close range, but under pressure, and blasted it over. Still Dorchester 0-0. The dealock was nearly broken, two minutes later, when Harry Cornick was put through one-on-one but his low shot went wide. That was half time - 0:0.

I bet Chiedozie was desperate to get on with no goals being scored so far.

My suspiscions of a lacklustre AFCB performance were confirmed during the break when AFCB tweeted: "The Cherries have failed to find any real rhythm here. The hosts have had the better chances, but Allsop is yet to really be tested."

The Cherries made two substitutions at half time with Chiedozie and Goodship replacing Cornick and Stockley. It only took until the 47th minute before my growing pre-season goal hero did it again. Jordan Chiedozie put the Cherries 0:1 up!

Jordan Chiedozie was back in goal scoring mood for AFCB.

The game was by no means secure though and on 57 minutes Smeeton reminded AFCB of that as he had Dorchester's best chance. He sent in a stinging shot from the edge of the area, but it was well saved by Allsop. On 59 minutes Cummings and McCarthy replaced Kamau and O'Kane. It is great to see that Warren wants to extend his career, I still miss his cheeky grin. 

It was not such good news that I didn't hear one comment about O'Kane during the match, but I am hoping he was the one doing some of the work when Cornick was through in the first half and perhaps when Chiedozie scored. At least he played for an hour - much needed time.

The excitement level was raised a bit higher when on 67 minutes Dorchester came close to levelling it through former AFCB youth player Lewy Blackmore, but the chance was cleared. We then had a sub as Jones replaced McDermott after 74 minutes. Donal could be in demand if Pugh and Ritchie are struggling to make the Charlton game, so I'm pleased he is one who has had a lot of match play in the last few weeks. 

AFCB made another substitution as Kirkwood replaced Legg on 79 minutes. Chances have been at a premium here in this second half, but it so nearly could have been a draw as in the 90th minute Wilson was put through one-on-one. However, Allsop made himself big and Wilson couldn't round the 21-year-old keeper. Not a bad return to the team Ryan.

There was no more recorded action and AFCB ran out 0:1 winners thanks to Jordan Chiedozie's goal. Jordan, you have increased your lead in the Cherry Chimes pre-season goal scorers table! He'll take some catching now.

Cherries starting XI: 

Allsop, Legg, Kamau, Parry, Cargill, Wakefield, McDermott, O'Kane, Stockley, Bassele, Cornick.

Cherries subs: Collins, Chiedozie, Goodship, Jones, Kirkwood, McCarthy, Cummings.

AFCB Trialists: Elliott Legg (Hayes & Yeading), Michael Kamau (Fulham, Brentford) and Immanuel Parry (Stoke).