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Purches signs for West Ham as a trainee but fails to make an appearance during two years at the club.
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Purches signs for the Cherries for the first time. He would go on to play over 200 times for the club over seven years.
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Purches helps the Cherries win the old Division 3 play-off final, in an emphatic 5-2 win over Lincoln City.
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Purches signs for London club Orient on a free transfer. He only missed three games in his time at the Cherries.
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Purches says it feels like coming home when he resigns for the Reds.
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He helped the Cherries to the play-off semi-final in his first season back at Dean Court, and signed a new two-and-a-half year contract after some impressive performances.
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Purches suffers from a double leg break in a league game against Rochdale and is sidelined for the rest of the season.
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The first event in the defender's testimonial league will be a reunion dinner of the 2003 play-off final squad.
