“Eddie Howe and Jason Tindall were doing the jobs of 20 or 30 people. If we got relegated we’d have gone into liquidation and that would’ve been the end” Cherries legend recalls Bournemouth sacrifice and close brush with liquidation

Steve Fletcher is a bona fide Bournemouth legend, having been around the club for almost three-and-a-half decades, witnessing the Cherries go from the brink of extinction to European football.

Few people, therefore, can quite appreciate just how close the club came to disappearing altogether.