Anything is Possible
Bournemouth's Championship Winning Season
Published on 13. May 2024
Book
Hardback
304 pages
978-1-80150-706-6 (ISBN)
Description
Anything Is Possible is the inside story of Bournemouth's remarkable Championship winning season and tells how the smallest club in the division defied bookmakers, pundits and the Football League to emerge triumphant from a fiercely fought promotion contest and gate-crashed the richest league in the world.
But that is just the end of the story! Only six years earlier, the club was on the brink of liquidation following a series of financial crises and points deductions. The club took a last-ditch gamble on former player Eddie Howe, a 31-year-old former player with zero management experience. It paid dividends and some, as Howe sowed the seeds for an astonishing rise up the leagues.
The club rose from League Two to the Championship in four seasons, successes made all the more remarkable as Howe spent 20 months of that period managing Burnley.
In 2014/15, Howe eclipsed his previous successes as he led a squad described as 'misfits' by captain Tommy Elphick to the Championship title in the final seconds of the season. Anything is Possible is the quite astonishing story of how a club on the brink of extinction rose through the divisions and reached the promised land of the Premier League.
But that is just the end of the story! Only six years earlier, the club was on the brink of liquidation following a series of financial crises and points deductions. The club took a last-ditch gamble on former player Eddie Howe, a 31-year-old former player with zero management experience. It paid dividends and some, as Howe sowed the seeds for an astonishing rise up the leagues.
The club rose from League Two to the Championship in four seasons, successes made all the more remarkable as Howe spent 20 months of that period managing Burnley.
In 2014/15, Howe eclipsed his previous successes as he led a squad described as 'misfits' by captain Tommy Elphick to the Championship title in the final seconds of the season. Anything is Possible is the quite astonishing story of how a club on the brink of extinction rose through the divisions and reached the promised land of the Premier League.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Hove
United Kingdom
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 124 mm
Width: 145 mm
Thickness: 28 mm
Weight
448 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-80150-706-6 (9781801507066)
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Michael Dunne is the author of Dean Court Days: Harry Redknapp at AFC Bournemouth. He has written about football in the Guardian, Observer, When Saturday Comes and many other publications and websites. Michael has supported Bournemouth for more than 40 years and for several seasons produced and presented the All Departments podcast, which charted the Cherries' fairy tale rise from the brink of extinction to the Premier League.