'Tis the winter of discombobulation for AFC Bournemouth. No win in months, their top scorer with a foot out of the door. It would be quite enough at some clubs for a boss to have been sacked twice over, with Ange Postecoglou popping up in between.
When Andoni Iraola arrived at Bournemouth in 2023, he went 13-and-a-half hours and nine agonising games without a win. With a draw against Chelsea to round off 2025, Iraola beat that unwanted record – 10 games – with their last three points collected before Halloween, in Sean Dyche's first Nottingham Forest fixture.
