In the meeting of lower middle-class upstarts both challenging the elites, Bournemouth dished out a footballing lesson to Nottingham Forest. Just like Manchester City and Arsenal, just like Newcastle a week previously, Forest were picked apart, their previously imperious defence ripped apart by warp-speed attacking.
Bournemouth fans wanted six. Theirs is the team of the moment. If Andoni Iraola and Nuno Espirito Santo share an enigmatic quality, it was the Basque, the friendly ideologue with a sense of perspective, who prevailed over the Portuguese, whose Zen-like calm masks hard-bitten sensibilities.
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