Post by Jon on Sept 18, 2016 23:20:12 GMT
Dec 29, 2009 21:27:21 GMT @bartondowns said:
A little late on posting programmes from previous visits to Dean Court but, as it's one of my favourite away trips, it's better late than never. These snippets are from my first two visits to Bournemouth. ....
1971/1972
On the coach - one of several I think - from Plainmoor for this one with the mandatory stop at Bridport bus station in both directions. TUFC took Bridport - yeah, no problem!
And, gosh, weren't Bournemouth flying at the time? Just the one season down in the fourth and now - with Bondy in charge - top of the Third Divsion - our old place - with some of our old players (see Bondy's notes). And - look - Ted MacDougall with 16 goals in 17 games and another to come, absolutely bloody inevitably, that November Saturday.
Also notice the change of style in the programme cover. This was just as Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic was being rebranded as AFC Bournemouth complete with new logo and AC Milan-style strip (although I'm not sure if the AFC business - a case of giving them alphabetical supremacy as much as anything else - had been officially ratified by the League at the time):
Elsewhere in the programme you'll see the game was refereed by Jack Taylor of Wolverhampton - later to do the 1974 World Cup Final - and that there was a fine array of souvenirs at the Cherry Bees Shop. And, if that's not enough, there's a back page advert for Ted MacDougall's shop (Jon will recognise the address) presented in a style that would have been rather too raunchy for that earlier 1969 programme. Yes Bournemouth seemed to be going places at the time but, like Torquay United a few years previously, it never quite happened. The parallels are fascinating.
