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Club Ban Paper…So Paper Ban Club

The unusual story of how AFC Bournemouth banned the Bournemouth Echo who responded tit-for-tat

By CHRISTOPHER DAVIES

Cherries: Bradbury labels players 'immature' – Bournemouth Echo, March 12

The Bournemouth Echo is surely the only newspaper to be banned by a club for accurately reporting what the manager said.

It is a very English habit for football writers and media organisations to be given the red card for writing something critical, clubs not believing newspapers should be impartial but should in fact be cheerleaders. Incredibly, clubs frequently ban papers for printing the truth which is exactly what the Echo did, reporting ...

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