CALLUM Wilson, Yann Kermorgant and Brett Pitman take note – you will need to come up with a corker to top Ted MacDougall’s effort at Aston Villa.

Cherries have only met Sunday’s FA Cup fourth-round opponents four times and never in a cup competition but fans of a certain age will still recall one of the most iconic goals scored by legend MacDougall on the club’s first trip to Villa Park.

 

And it came in no ordinary game. Newly-promoted Cherries were second to Villa in the Division Three promotion race with just two points separating the rivals ahead of the clash in February 1972.

A bumper crowd of 48,110 – then a third-tier record – looked on in amazement as MacDougall set Tony Scott away then sprinted to meet his ball at the back post with a flying header in front of the Match of the Day cameras.

Goals from Geoff Vowden and Andy Lochhead consigned Cherries to a 2-1 defeat and John Bond’s men ultimately came up short in their quest for a then-unprecedented place in English football’s second tier, finishing third behind Brighton & Hove Albion before the advent of end-of-season play-offs.

Earlier that season, Cherries had thumped Villa 3-0 in front of 20,305 at Dean Court courtesy of strikes from Phil Boyer, MacDougall and Tony Powell.

They met again 16 seasons later in Division Two with Trevor Aylott scoring in a 1-1 draw at Villa Park. Cherries lost 2-1 at Dean Court with Villa's Scotland international Andy Gray scoring an own goal.