Jimmy Glass - One Hit Wonder Just finished reading Jimmy Glass' autobiography "One Hit Wonder".

It's very poorly written, like a really long article in the sports pages of a local newspaper; Jimmy seems to have a higher opinion of his ability than probably anybody who ever saw him play (and seems surprised that no manager ever tried him up front!); and he clearly has no appreciation of how a defence's lack of confidence in their goalkeeper can have a massive knock on effect for the entire team and its supporters. Yet it is an interesting, if slightly depressing, look at the world of lower league football.

I can't help but wonder what the conditions are like at Bournemouth, these days. It would be nice to think that things ahve moved on in the last few years, but maybe it is a sign that the management and players are doing an even better job than we might appreciate. And as our hopes of promotion are starting to look forlorn, some of the whingers might like to remember that.  ¶ 7:15 PM 0 comments

Sunday, February 13, 2005

AFCB 4-0 Oldham Boy, did we need that.

No updates for a while; that's what you get when you have half a dozen away games in a row. Needless to say things had started to drift on the pitch, too, as tends to be the inevitable fate of AFC Bournemouth. It seems that no matter how good we get it will never be quite good enough. And on those special occasions when it is good enough, something else will invariably come along to spoil things. Like the threat of bankruptcy, usually.

Anyway, a four-nil win. So long as we pick up points from those games in hand there is no reason why we shouldn't be in the reckoning at the end of the season. Hopefully the team can kick on from here. Lots of goals, three points, the first clean sheet in ages - hard to say which is the best. And if it true to say we could have conceded a couple, we could have scored a lot more as well.

In all, then, a good day.  ¶ 3:02 PM 0 comments