Built them for Europe. Watched it on TV.

Three years, Andoni Iraola took Bournemouth from 12th to 9th to 6th — the first European qualification in the club's history. Then Liverpool sacked Arne Slot and came for him. On Thursday the Cherries finally played that European game: away at Real Sociedad, eleven kilometres from the Basque village where Iraola was born. They won it. He watched from Merseyside. Sunday he's back at the Vitality, and his own word for it was "ruthless".