Sure this has to be a joke? Discussions were on the table for AFC Bournemouth and Portsmouth to merge? In a remarkably silly story it is being suggested that around the time that Portsmouth fell back in to Adminstration, there was a proposal on the table to merge the two clubs! Thankfully the suggestion has been rubbished, but there's no smoke without fire, with Mitchell being quoted in the Bournemouth Evening Echo as saying about club mergers in general: "Eventually, I think it is the way football will go...
