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Reebok Round-Up (19.04.09): Starring Chris Basham and Ronald McDonald
Sunday, April 19th, 2009 | BWFC News, BWFC People, Blerim Dzemaili, Chris Basham, Danny Guthrie, Ebi Smolarek, Gary Megson, Jay-Jay Okocha, Sebastien Puygrenier | No Comments
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What Manny Road has been reading (and thinking) about Bolton Wanderers
- Bolton rescued Newcastle reject Basham from McDonald’s counter
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Reebok Round-Up (10.04.09)
Friday, April 10th, 2009 | BWFC News, BWFC People, Blerim Dzemaili, Fabrice Muamba, Gary Megson, Kevin Davies, Mark Davies, Ricardo Gardner | No Comments
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Recommended reading (5.1.09): Cup fever not so contagious in Bolton
Monday, January 5th, 2009 | Abdoulaye Faye, Ali Al-Habsi, BWFC People, Blerim Dzemaili, Dave Higson, El-Hadji Diouf, Gary Megson, Kevin Davies, Kevin Nolan, Sam Allardyce, Tal Ben Haim | No Comments
What Manny Road has been reading (and thinking) about Bolton Wanderers over the last week
- Following on from Kevin Nolan declaring exactly how much he thinks Bolton should be spending in the January transfer window, Kevin Davies has also been laying down the law, saying he’d like three new signings thanks very much Mr Megson (since when did players get to dictate transfer policy to the clubs they play for?).
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Recommended reading (15.11.08): Everybody loves Sammy Lee
Saturday, November 15th, 2008 | BWFC People, Blerim Dzemaili, Danny Shittu, Gary Megson, Heidar Helguson, Jay-Jay Okocha, Kevin Nolan, Sam Allardyce, Sammy Lee, Youri Djorkaeff | 1 Comment
What Manny Road has been reading (and thinking) Bolton Wanderers today…
- This interview with Kevin Nolan in which he follows in Gary Megson’s footsteps by lavishing praise on former Wanderers manager Sammy Lee (shame he wasn’t more supportive when Lee was his boss).
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Media matters for Bolton Wanderers
Thursday, October 2nd, 2008 | Abdoulaye Meite, BWFC People, Blerim Dzemaili, Gary Megson, Gretar Steinsson, Mustapha Riga | 2 Comments
When will The Bolton News start holding Gary Megson to account?
There’s a website called Media Matters for America whose mission is to hold the US media to account when they fail to report the full story.
It’s a very left wing website and at the moment they’re pretty much obsessed with highlighting stories, on both the TV and in the press, where Presidential candidate John McCain’s criticisms of his rival Barack Obama are reported without the necessary investigation in to how true they are.
I’m beginning to wonder whether Bolton Wanderers fans need a similar watchdog for The Bolton News, who have barely printed a bad word about Gary Megson so far this season, despite widespread unrest amongst supporters.
At the moment the mainstream media couldn’t give a toss about either Bolton Wanderers or Gary Megson. They’re far too preoccupied with the pantomimes unfolding at Newcastle, Manchester City and Tottenham. So it should fall to The Bolton News to hold Megson to account.
And yet, day after day, they continue to print Megson’s words with little attempt to highlight the inconsistencies and hypocrisies. Today they reported that Bolton have been denied six points by bad refereeing decisions since the start of last season (the source being a website that appears to be just as susceptible to human error as any referee).
When will The Bolton News print an in-depth analysis of the number of points the Wanderers have lost in the last 12 months as a result of Megson’s poor decisions and mistakes? It’s a lot more than Rob Styles or any other referee has cost us that’s for sure.
Here are some more examples of The Bolton News failing to hold Gary Megson to account in recent weeks:
- Gary Megson was lost for words after Abdoulaye Meite’s tantrum at Old Trafford last season… how about asking him why he’s fallen out with so many players throughout his managerial career, or about recent rumours of a dressing room bust-up after the Fulham game?
- Various articles about Megson’s fury at Rob Styles, including this one, this one and this one here… what about quizzing Megson about his negative team selection, especially as he’d been in The Bolton News a week earlier claiming he wanted to put Manchester United on the back foot and was ready to give Mustapha Riga his first start?
- We’re making progress says Megson… no mention of the fact that we’re just one point better off now than we were this time last year, despite Megson’s repeated criticism of how bad things were when he took over.
- Squad size is a worry for Megson… no mention of the fact that Megson failed to find a replacement for Blerim Dzemaili after he sent him out on loan on transfer deadline day.
And it’s not just Megson who gets an easy ride…
- Gretar Steinsson believes that but for 15 minutes against Arsenal and a short spell against United, the Wanderers would have got something from both those games… no attempt to point out that football is a game that lasts 90 minutes and that we were completely outplayed in those spells that Steinsson mentions.
Media matters and The Bolton News should matter to Bolton Wanderers fans, but it seems like it’s increasingly becoming little more than a mouthpiece for the official party line of the club.
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Mixed messages from Bolton Wanderers on transfer deadline day
Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008 | BWFC People, Blerim Dzemaili, Ebi Smolarek, Gary Megson, Gavin McCann, Phil Gartside | No Comments
Is Gary Megson an idiot, or has the board undermined him?
With virtually no mention of Bolton Wanderers in the various live TV and internet commentaries that now accompany transfer deadline day, it was no surprise to see the club failing to add to their summer signings by midnight.
In some ways this made sense. Gary Megson did most of his wheeling and dealing in the close season and had already strengthened further with the signing of Ebi Smolarek over the weekend.
What doesn’t make sense, though, is Megson failing to make any signings after telling The Bolton News on Sunday that his squad is too small. Apparently an £8 million bid for Portugal midfielder Maniche failed at the last minute, but if the squad is so small then why let Blerim Dzemaili join Torino on a year-long loan deal without first securing a replacement?
It seems to me that there are only two reasons to let a player go out on loan:
- To give him enough games to develop.
- To get him off the wage bill.
But surely if the squad is as threadbare as Megson claims then neither of the above can apply to Dzemaili. With so few players, surely he would get games at Bolton, in which case his presence on the wage bill would represent value for money.
Which leads me to the conclusion that either Megson is completely stupid, or his statements to The Bolton News were intended as a subtle plea to Phil Gartside to stop him getting rid of any more players.
If it’s the latter, then that raises questions about how much control Megson really has. If it’s the former, then it raises questions about whether we really want Megson to have any power at all.
Either way, it’s a rum do if you ask me. And if Dzemaili can’t even challenge Gavin McCann’s place in the team, then surely he must be useless and we should just get rid all together.
What do you think?
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