The Times - UK (2020-08-03)

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Bournemouth have given themselves a
fortnight to find a new manager and
have received interest from Chris
Hughton and Lee Johnson.
Eddie Howe, 42, had been in charge
for nearly eight years in his second spell
at the Vitality Stadium and during his
time as manager guided the club from
League Two to the Premier League. He
left by mutual consent on Saturday six
days after they were relegated from the
top flight. Bournemouth are ideally
looking for a manager who is out of
work as it would make for a smoother
appointment before the start of pre-
season training on August 17.

Bournemouth may target Terry

Hughton, 61, has experience of

leading teams up from the Champion-

ship — Newcastle United in

2009-10 and Brighton & Hove

Albion three years ago. He

has been out of work since

leaving the latter in May

2019. Johnson, 39, was
      sacked by Bristol City
      last month after they fell
      out of contention for a
      Championship play-off
      place.
      Bournemouth are also
      likely to show interest in Nigel
      Pearson, who was sacked as
      Watford head coach with two matches
      left. He led Leicester City to the top

flight in 2013-14 and then kept them up

the following season. Paul Cook, who

resigned from Wigan Athletic last

week, and John Terry, the

former Chelsea captain

who is an assistant to

Dean Smith at Aston

Villa, may be considered.

Howe’s assistant,

Jason Tindall, has been

put in interim charge of

Bournemouth, who say

there will be no fire sale of

players to offset a drop in

income through relegation.

They will make transfer funds

available to the new manager including

£41 million from the expected depar-

ture of Nathan Aké, the 25-year-old

central defender, to Manchester City.

Josh King and Callum Wilson, the

28-year-old forwards, are likely to be

sold. The futures of the midfielder Jef-

ferson Lerma, 25, the goalkeeper Aaron

Ramsdale, 22, and David Brooks, the

23-year-old midfielder, are uncertain.

6 Eddie Newton, the former Chelsea

midfielder, has been appointed head

coach at Trabzonspor. The 48-year-old

left Chelsea’s coaching staff to become

assistant manager of the Turkish club

in February and last month took

caretaker charge after the departure of

Huseyin Cimsir. He led Trabzonspor to

a 2-0 win over Alanyaspor in the

Turkish cup final on Wednesday.

Gary Jacob

Spurs keen on

Lille right back

Duncan Castles

Tottenham Hotspur face competition

from Everton for the Lille right back

Zeki Celik as they consider offloading

Serge Aurier.

Everton have opened talks with the

Ligue 1 side for the transfer of the

Turkey international, 23, who is valued

at about £18 million. However José

Mourinho, the Spurs head coach, is

keen on the defender. He would provide

him with a second option at right back,

a position which was important to the

tactical shape Mourinho deployed

upon taking over at Tottenham in

November, with the left back tucking in

to allow Aurier, 27 — the full back on

the opposite side — to bomb forward.

Alternatively, Celik’s purchase could

allow Spurs to explore the sale of Aurier

to AC Milan. Although he played more

Premier League minutes than any

Spurs player except Toby Alderweireld

last season, his unpredictability in

defensive areas proved costly at times

Everton’s pursuit of Celik runs along-

side their bid for Southampton’s Pierre-

Emile Hojbjerg, another Spurs target.

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H

arrogate Town

have become

the Football

League’s newest club

after denying Notts

County’s bid to regain

their status as its

oldest (Gregor

Robertson writes).

Goals from George

Thomson, Connor

Hall and Jack

Diamond clinched a

3-1 win in yesterday’s

National League play-

off final at Wembley

for Harrogate, who

have spent all their

106 years as a non-

League club. It has

been a remarkable

rise in the 11 years

since the manager,

Simon Weaver,

answered a newspaper

advert for the job. Two

years later Weaver’s

father, Irving, the

millionaire owner of

Strata Homes, bought

the club and thanks to

their efforts, the spa

town best known for

its quaint tearooms

will soon host Bolton

Wanderers and

Bradford City in

League Two.

“I’m so pleased for

him, he’s an amazing

guy,” Weaver said of

his father. “It’s been

some journey.”

Harrogate, who

went full time in 2017,

will have to rip up

their 3G pitch under

EFL rules.

Harrogate

complete

fairytale rise

into League

Harrogate celebrate

promotion to the League

thanks to their 3-1 win

over Notts County, in

which Hall scored the

second goal, inset

2,850

Days Howe had in charge

of Bournemouth (second

spell), longer than all bar

Gareth Ainsworth, at

Wycombe, and

Harrogate’s Simon

Weaver

Coughing will

mean red card

potential police action afterwards. The

FA’s document for referees states:

“Where the referee is certain that

someone deliberately, and from close

range, coughed into the face of an

opponent or match official... the

referee should take action under the

law 12, ‘using offensive, insulting or

abusive language and/or gestures’.”

In March, Atletico Madrid con-

demned their striker, Diego Costa, after

he coughed towards members of the

media as an apparent prank after his

side’s Champions League win over

Liverpool at Anfield.

Referees who are not part of the

Covid-19 testing programme must take

their temperature at home within five

hours of the match starting; have their

fees paid into a bank account; travel to

games separately; and not handle the

match ball before kick-off. Assistant

referees must wear facemasks when

checking players’ boots and shin pads.

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