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Recommended reading (8.1.09): Bolton Wanderers are ‘technically insolvent’

Thursday January 8th, 2009

What Manny Road has been reading (and thinking) about Bolton Wanderers over the past few days

- Four Four Two documenting how money took over football, including reference to Bolton’s David Jack becoming the first £10,000 footballer (those must have been the days to be a Bolton Wanderers fans… three FA Cups in seven years, the best players in the land in our team etc etc).

- The same magazine also underlined why times are a little less exciting – even depressing – for the modern day Wanderers supporter. According to their calculations, Bolton are ‘technically insolvent’ (the only good news appears to be that so are 10 other Premier League clubs).

- On this discussion on the 606 forum, one Wanderers fan reveals his own research into the club’s financial position, which many have been questioning since the mysterious link to the Icelandic banking collapse a couple of months back. It includes the Burnden Leisure PLC yearly Trading Report for accounting period July 2007 to July 2008 (my favourite bit of this is where the guy asks everyone to keep it a secret because he shouldn’t really be spreading the info around… should’ve thought about that before you posted it on the internet).

- Ali Al-Habsi showing why we signed him up on a new contract (or putting himself in the shop window?) in the Gulf Cup.

- The club still trying to flog subscriptions to Wanderers World, which as far as I can tell is universally disliked, mainly due to the standard of the commentary. Still that didn’t stop The Bolton News giving them a glowing write up that amounted nothing short of a (presumably) free advert. The club says jump and the paper says how high.

- And finally, Big Brother is watching you at the Reebok Stadium… apparently these new security cameras make fans more secure, although it’s also possible that the security guards would rather watch the fans than the dross frequently served up on the pitch.

Have your say on any of these stories in the comment box below…

The eagle-eyed will notice that this dispatch contains no reference to the January transfer window, which is pretty much dominating the Bolton Wanderers headlines right now. For a summary of that particular soap opera click here.

Ali Al-Habsi, BWFC People, David Jack

Tags: BBC, BoltonWanderers, PremierLeague, ReebokStadium, TheBoltonNews, WanderersWorld

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