BOURNEMOUTH & BOSCOMBE ATH 70-71

WHERE ARE THEY NOW?DIVISION FOUR RUNNERS-UPBy Neil Fissler

HAROLD Walker's ambition when he took over as chairman of Bournemouth was to make the club the Newcastle of the south, but things got off to a disastrous start.From the moment they were admitted into the Football League, the club played in Division Three South and then Division Three when the regionalisation of the bottom division was scrapped in 1958.But in 1970, following a nearmiss with promotion, they found themselves relegated to Division Four for the first time in their history, and Walker realised that big changes n...

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