[Albion] Bournemouth fans

[Garry Nelson's Left Foot]

Bournemouth is closer to Exeter than it is to Brighton and there aren't two league clubs in between them like there is with us.

 

[Sid and the Sharknados]

The clue's in the "A" of AFC Bournemouth.

As in, they're a club so desperate for attention that they arbitrarily added an A to the start of their name so they'd appear at the top of alphabetical lists?

 

[Badger]

The clue's in the "A" of AFC Bournemouth.

I just looked up why they are called AFC Bournemouth. Apparently it's so they could appear at the top of the alphabetical list of English clubs. I assume they wanted to sound continental too.

Their kit was also a copy of AC Milan.

Just when you thought they couldn't be any more tin pot...

 

[Coldeanseagull]

The clue's in the "A" of AFC Bournemouth.

Rivals by association it is then.
I'd rather have them in the same league than, say.....(insert northern tin pot club here)

 

[el punal]

I gauge how much i care about a club by how bothered I am by their results; so, in this order, I look to see how it's gone for Palace, Chelsea, Pompey, Saints, ManU, Liverpool, Everton, Reading & Millwall. After that, I couldn't give a shite.

Now if you were a Leeds fan it would be all the teams in the Premier League, Championship, League One, League 2, the National League and National League North. There, I think that just about covers it.

 

[Simster]

They have always sung that crap song, they have always hated us since they missed out on promotion that year there were 30k at the Goldstone, we are regional rivals (albeit at opposite ends of the region), and historically we've played them frequently, mostly in the lower leagues.

The bottom line is that we don't get on and never have.

Right now, I consider them a bad smell: in our realm (the Premier League) but nowhere near our level, and forever a tin-pot nothing club.

 

[Publius Ovidius]

I just looked up why they are called AFC Bournemouth. Apparently it's so they could appear at the top of the alphabetical list of English clubs. I assume they wanted to sound continental too.

Their kit was also a copy of AC Milan.

Just when you thought they couldn't be any more tin pot...

It’s because the were called Bournemouth and boscombe football club and went down the AFC route when they changed their name

 

[Stato]

I just looked up why they are called AFC Bournemouth. Apparently it's so they could appear at the top of the alphabetical list of English clubs. I assume they wanted to sound continental too.

Their kit was also a copy of AC Milan.

Just when you thought they couldn't be any more tin pot...

I thought they'd still be alphabetically behind Aldershot & Arsenal, but, unlike Blackpool, they're not even 'Association Football Club' Bournemouth, just 'A.F.C.' so don't even have the word 'football' in their name. Apparently the idea of 'Dicky Dowsett' who is the player represented heading the ball on their terrible club badge. It's funny that everybody just ignores it and puts them under 'Bournemouth'.

Are they the only club in the league that doesn't have 'Football Club' in their name?

They should change it back to 'Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic FC'. Tossing out that fine Edwardian sounding moniker seems a bit like when Leyton Orient dropped their place name during the seventies and eighties. I don't like it. It's all a bit 'Hull Tigers', the sort of thing that owners with no respect for history would do. Come on Bournemouth fans. We know there's alway a few of you sneaking a look at NSC. Start a 'What about Boscombe?' campaign to rejoin us in the proud ranks of teams representing two places: Dagenham & Redbridge, Havant & Waterlooville, Tooting & Mitcham, Peacehaven & Telscombe.

 

[happypig]

Now if you were a Leeds fan it would be all the teams in the Premier League, Championship, League One, League 2, the National League and National League North. There, I think that just about covers it.

I used to know a feller who was a Railway Policeman. He was a Geordie, fan of NUFC, and took great delight in calling Leeds fans "Soft Southern Bastards"

 

[dazzer6666]

I was chatting to someone on a dog walk the other day and he was saying a lot of Bournemouth fans see us as their rivals now.

Ideas above their station ?

 

[Durlston]

Small team in Swanage.
You know what you are.

 

[chrisg]

4 teams mentioned there. We had a song we used to sing along the same lines. Not sure how Brighton wouldn't make it on to Bournemouth's top 4 disliked teams- Saints obviously, then Pompey, Reading are close and then I can't see any other contenders other than us. Seems fair to me, especially as they need 7 syllables to make it work.

Exactly. It adds to the rhyme , move on, is just a rhyme kids.

 

[Taybha]

Nothing against the Muffers or their fans so it's a bit meh to me,I'd wager they've not forgotten the pitch invasion down there and the shenanigans thereafter,must admit I felt a little bit sorry for them that day,invade the pitch yup definitely worked, live on TV,jumping into their end swinging windmills probably not so much of a good idea,and frankly no reason to have done it at all.

 

[The Grockle]

Ideas above their station ?

Who knows, didn't know we even registered with them but he's a ST holder and seemed pretty convinced

 

[Sheebo]

WTF??

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Can remember them singing this at Withdean and was utterly bemused!