The Bournemouth Sentinel
Match3 Nov 2040
Bournemouth run riot against Hull City
5‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.
Player ratings5 Nov 2040
A brace, and Anton Palmer takes the afternoon — 8.58
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Anton Palmer provided it, and the 8.58 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Player ratings5 Nov 2040
A brace, and Rayan takes the afternoon — 8.45
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Rayan provided it, and the 8.45 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Squad5 Nov 2040
Harry Gray has been here 12 seasons
410 appearances across 12 seasons in one shirt. Nobody builds a career like that on purpose any more; it happens to a certain kind of footballer at a certain kind of club.
Squad5 Nov 2040
Harry Gray in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Bournemouth this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad5 Nov 2040
David Romero signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” David Romero and Bournemouth agree another 2 years.
Squad5 Nov 2040
David Romero falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Market5 Nov 2040
The Alex Scott story refuses to die
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Alex Scott signs something — a contract at Bournemouth or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
Player ratings5 Nov 2040
Harry Gray keeps on missing
Shots: 10, not one of them in. A centre forward is paid for one thing, and on this evidence he has forgotten which thing it is.
In brief
- Market Robert Scott told to find a new club
- Player ratings António Silva was immovable
- The terraces The press cannot get enough of Rayan