Eddie always believed that his team would score more than the opposition and it appears that that belief never left him because Bournemouth have conceded plenty if their PL seasons, unfortunately, this last season his strikers stopped scoring and this has cost him.

Interesting thing is that, we played 77 games in the Championship under Eddie and averaged 1.37 points per game. When he came we were 10th in the league and finished that season in 8th place. The following season, his only full one with us, we finished 13th and when he left us during the following seasons we were in 16th place having picked up just 11 points from 10 matches.

When Brian Laws was sacked in December 2010 we had played 21 matches in the Championship and were in 9th place and he had an average of 1.48 points per game.

No doubt at all that Eddie worked wonders at Bournemouth and the fans will be very sad to see him leave, however, that is football.