Cherries job child’s play for boss Tindall
JASON TINDALL says he was talked into managing Bournemouth by his football-obsessed son, who is a Cherries fan.
And the rookie boss, who is stepping up from his role as Eddie Howe’s assistant, joked it will be easy compared to keeping up with 10-year-old Levi.
The Tindalls were on holiday in Croatia when the call came offering the 42-year-old his first big gig in management and the decision to say yes was a family affair.
Tindall (inset) said: “There was pressure from my son. He’s a big football enthusiast. He kept asking if I was going to be the manager.
“The more I said to him, ‘I’m not sure,’ the more he said, ‘Well, what else are you going to do?’ When I asked myself that it made my decision a bit easier.
“I’ve stood side by side with Ed [Howe] for 12 years. If I’m not ready now, I never will be.
“When Ed made his decision it was a shock for me. Then it was thinking time that I needed to have.
“I’ve never once thought about becoming a manager until Ed made the personal decision he made.
“We were away and every couple of hours Levi was in my ear.
“He’s obsessed with football. Plays for the club, for the Under-11s. He’s really excited. He gives me enough grief. If I can handle him, I can handle these guys no problem!”
Bournemouth have promised Tindall there will be no fire sale. But key players could still follow £40m Manchester City new boy Nathan Ake out of the door.
So Tindall has warned prospective buyers he wants the futures of Callum Wilson, Josh King, Aaron Ramsdale and David Brooks sorted quickly.
He said: “The later other clubs leave it, the more difficult it is to let them go and the prospective team to sign them.
“You want to know what your squad is looking like for the coming season at the earliest possible time.”
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LUCAS OCAMPOS broke Wolves’ hearts after Raul Jimenez picked the worst time to spoil his perfect penalty record.
The Mexican fluffed his 11th-minute effort to completely let the Spaniards off the hook.
And Ocampos pounced to head home the winner in the 88th minute.
Jimenez, who has scored 27 goals this season, had never missed a spot-kick in club football in 21 attempts.
But his powder-puff shot was saved by Sevilla goalkeeper Bono and sparked the five-time Europa League winners into action.
They started to run the show and gave Wolves a tough time of things as they dominated possession and only a string of fine saves from Rui
There was a big suggestion that the goalkeeper was off his line and that Sevilla players encroached but you still would have banked on him to put it away.
But Wolves really blew a massive chance to put Sevilla on the back-foot when Jimenez fluffed his lines. It was such a shame because Adama Traore’s magnificent scorching run to win the penalty ended up counting for nothing.
There are few more awesome sights in football than muscleman Traore leaving opponents gasping in his slipstream and that is exactly what he did when he seized on the ball in his own half.
He had to crouch to control it but after that it was poetry in motion as he traced a path which left three or four Sevilla players just flapping to get anywhere near him as he powered away with pace to spare.
He surged into the box and when Diego Carlos tried to intervene, the outcome was almost inevitable.
He sent the winger sprawling, leaving Italian referee Daniele Orsato with no option but to point to the spot and show a yellow card to