You can’t keep politics out of football — but clubs can choose unity over division Football does not exist in a bubble, isolated from society and politics. As such, it can never be apolitical - but when clubs platform political figures, they redefine who they are and who belongs.

First opinion piece for a while on the blog. This one's been festering for a while..

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That's amazing!

There was a bit of a bug verifying emails on the website for new user registrations.. (they were getting verified twice, so the second one reported an error and it looked like they weren't..) - but it's fixed now :)

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Dean Court Timeline We've launched a major new feature in the rednblack.net museum - dedicated to the history of our home stadium. Take a journey back through time to its earliest beginnings and share your memories of th...

Very pleased to be able to reveal the latest new section in the rednblack museum - our Dean Court timeline. Already easily the biggest single chronicle you'll find of our home's history online - and one we're looking to continue to keep expanding!

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The FSA are running a survey on VAR - we'd urge all our followers and #afcb fans to take a moment and fill it in.

Unless you like VAR, in which case we didn't post this. 😉

www.surveymonkey.com/r/var-2026

Boscombe St John's Lads FC - taken in Knyveton Gardens in spring 1899. The forerunner of our club - the majority of this team went on to form Boscombe the following season. #afcb

We've been busy again.. videos longer than the 3 minute BlueSky limit will now get split into a thread.. 🧵 #afcb

Wow. #afcb

We can extract links from cards the club post and put the links back in on here! #afcb

We have videos again!

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We're testing some fixes to the @afc-bournemouth.bsky.social feed that will hopefully make it better and more reliable. Apologies if you're following it and we spam you a bit this afternoon.. it'll be worth it.. #afcb

"Supporters will continue to see construction of the South Stand upper tier throughout the 2026/27 season."

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Help needed

Most of our photos- press photos have information on the reverse, occasionally we come across some with no or incorrect information. Can you help with these?

Any information would be greatly appreciated. -1

We'll tell UpScrolled as well.. and FB later. Maybe Threads. We won't tell x.

We don't expect to be overloaded by a stampede no matter what - but even so, we want quite a soft launch of this so we can pick up any issues.. let us know your thoughts, things you like, would like or that we can improve.. we want to make this an indispensable resource for #afcb fans..

Ok.. we're going to break it on here first.. but we've finally got community engagement features live on the site so that people can easily contribute to the museum etc. Come have a look at what's been going on on the site..

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31 years ago today - a Jason Brissett corner bobbles off of Adrian Pennock's thigh and Michael McElhatton manages to head the ball in to the Plymouth Argyle net.

A massive win in a 6 pointer on our way to the greatest escape from relegation that's ever been achieved.

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What's in a (nick)name? The origins of our club nickname 'the cherries' have entered local folklore - but the commonly understood reason for the name is simply a romantic myth. The truth is far simpler.

Having read it one too many times recently, it's time to put the myths about our nickname coming from cherry orchards to bed once and for all.

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New fan-led TIFO alert! 🍒
Tomorrow vs Villa, a big banner will move through the North Stand, starting at the bottom of Block 10 and up and down to Block 15.
Launching pre-match and finishing by 14:58 before @bottomike hits the pitch. Get involved and help it along! #AFCB

Our first captain, Charles Louis Hembrey. Born 21st April 1878 in Freemantle, Hants. Died February 5th 1951. Worked as a roofer while playing football for Boscombe where he lived and died. He provided the earliest photograph of Boscombe FC taken December 1899, from which this image is taken. #afcb

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rednblack.net - AFC Bournemouth We'd rather you didn't share this on Twitter..

We haven't done an On This Day for a while... well, OTD, 10 years ago, Benik Afobe and Marc Pugh were on the scoresheet in a 2-1 away win at Crystal Palace..

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Deadline day.. other than kicking the tyres on some left back cover given Soler's injury, don't expect much from #afcb. We're all but safe. I would have liked us to bring in Senesi's successor now to get them up to speed before next season but doesn't look like that's on the cards..

Our own alternative abominations are available on our redbubble store! #afcb

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We've joined UpScrolled - and posted the very first #afcb content there. Come join us and build the community!!

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hmm the actual syncpost.app URL doesn't seem to be up. May be a dead app.. Would like to rework the @afc-bournemouth.bsky.social feed as videos are currently killing it (can't get them without logging in and logging in with our bot is getting blocked) - or better still get the club cross-posting!!

Does this work with videos?

Europa League, 6 games against mid level teams. You have to look at who they've actually played rather than the table. Beating Salzburg away was impressive.. but other then that they've not played anyone half decent. The meat and drink of their league is a long way below PL level..

Dear #afcb fans. This is how we get ahead of ourselves. £10.5m for a player from NB1 is not a bargain or a coup. Only this week a Hungarian football podcast called a figure like that totally unrealistic.

NB1 is about League 2 level. The step up is enormous. The kid is talented but let him develop.

Alex Tóth - Hungarian Talent - Skills, Goals & Assists ᴴᴰ YouTube video by Underrated Players

#AFCB have agreed a €12m deal for Alex Toth!
The Hungarian midfielder will travel to the UK to complete the deal over the next few days.

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