WHEN Sam Vokes left Bournemouth in the summer of 2008 facing the Cherries in the Premier League nine years on seemed an impossible dream.
The then 18-year-old scored 12 goals the season before but couldn’t prevent Bournemouth being relegated to League Two, where they would start the following campaign with a 17-point deduction after failing to exit administration through a Company Voluntary Agreement and for being declared insolvent for the second time in as many years.
The Cherries were a club teetering on the brink and Vokes departed for Wolves fearing the worst for them, so to be lining up against them for Burnley at Dean Court today in the Premier League will be a surreal experience for the Welshman, who is tha…
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