Eddie Davies
Reebok Round-Up (29.03.09): Starring Amir Khan, Andy O’Brien and Michael Ricketts
Sunday, March 29th, 2009 | Andy O'Brien, BWFC News, BWFC People, Eddie Davies, Fabrice Muamba, Gary Cahill, Gary Megson, Gretar Steinsson, Johan Elmander, Kevin Davies, Michael Ricketts, Phil Gartside, Tamir Cohen | No Comments
What Manny Road has been reading (and thinking) about Bolton Wanderers during the international break
Recommended reading (5.12.08): After the curse of Chelsea cometh the curse of Bolton Wanderers
Friday, December 5th, 2008 | Ali Al-Habsi, BWFC People, Eddie Davies, Gary Megson, Johan Elmander, Jussi Jaaskelainen, Owen Coyle, Phil Gartside, Sam Allardyce | No Comments
What Manny Road has been reading (and thinking) about Bolton Wanderers over the last couple of days
- He may have scored three goals in two games, but Johan Elmander is still the eighth worst summer signing in the Premier League, accoring to the Daily Telegraph.
Recommended reading (25.11.08): Danny Shittu is a Wanderers reject… get him out of here!
Tuesday, November 25th, 2008 | BWFC People, Danny Shittu, Eddie Davies, Gary Megson, Jussi Jaaskelainen, Mikel Alonso, Phil Gartside, Sam Allardyce, Sammy Lee | No Comments
What Manny Road was reading (and thinking) about Bolton Wanderers over the last few days…
- This lengthy interview with Sam Allardyce in The Times in which he talks in great detail about some of the pivotal games in the early part of his Bolton career, particularly the Play-Off semi-final against West Brom from 2001. He doesn’t hold back in his assessment of Barry Knight’s performance a year earlier either.
Bolton Wanderers v Everton: The fans’ view
Thursday, October 30th, 2008 | BWFC People, Bruce Rioch, Eddie Davies, Gary Megson, Ivan Campo, Mustapha Riga, Peter Reid, Phil Brown, Phil Gartside, Sam Allardyce | 4 Comments
The match report you won’t read in the papers or see on Match of the Day…
Here’s what the various Bolton Wanderers discussion forums made of the 1-0 home defeat to Everton:
- The Everton defence didn’t make a mistake and therefore our lightweight attack never looked like scoring.
- The worst thing is that Everton were rubbish too, so what does that say about us?
Bolton Wanderers and the credit crunch: Part three
Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008 | BWFC People, Eddie Davies, Phil Gartside | No Comments
The Guardian is again predicting financial storm clouds ahead for the Wanderers…
After the confusion surrounding Bolton’s connection to the Icelandic banking crisis last week, I wrote that The Guardian deleting that story from their website and the club staying silent on the issue only created more unanswered questions about the state of the club’s finances.
A week on and The Guardian has again delivered a pretty damning verdict on Bolton Wanderers’ financial health. There’s no mention of Iceland this time, but in his club-by-club breakdown of the effects of the credit crunch, David Conn – a highly respected commentator on the business side of football – wrote this about the Wanderers:
Struggling to keep up. Apart from a useful hotel business, the club relies on cash from the owner, Davies. Falling crowds at the Reebok in 2007 were described as “a real concern” then they fell again last season and corporate hospitality was down. The chairman, Phil Gartside, stated plainly that Bolton is “a trading club” – it has to sell players – and could buy only because of “the ongoing support of Edwin Davies and parties connected to him”.
Conn’s final verdict reads:
Came very close to relegation last season and are likely to face a battle, financially and on the field, to stay up again this time.
In another piece on The Guardian’s Sport Blog, Conn details the vast wealth of many of the top Premier League club’s financial benefactors, before writing:
Less is known about Edwin Davies, Bolton’s owner, who made his money in the kettle components company Strix. So far he has funded survival at the Reebok.
Recent initiatives suggest the club is doing everything it can to solve the falling attendances problem, but ultimately it looks like the Wanderers financial future hangs on survival in the Premier League. And by sounds it, if we go down then Eddie Davies’ pockets just won’t be deep enough.
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Bolton Wanderers v Arsenal: The fans’ view
Sunday, September 21st, 2008 | BWFC People, Danny Shittu, Ebi Smolarek, Eddie Davies, Fabrice Muamba, Gary Megson, Gavin McCann, Kevin Davies, Kevin Nolan, Mustapha Riga | 2 Comments
The Bolton Wanderers match report you won’t see in the papers or on Match of the Day…
Here’s what the various Bolton Wanderers message boards thought of the 3-1 home defeat to Arsenal:
- We played OK but the fact is that we are now in free fall and the clock is ticking for Gary Megson.
- Our defence was a complete shambles. It was men against boys. After allowing Arsenal to come back again, Megson clearly has to go.
- Eddie Davies, who was at the game, cannot have been happy with the poor defending.
- Hallelujah! Megson dropped Gavin McCann! But he should’ve picked Mustapha Riga!
- Why did Megson bother buying Riga? He looks like a world beater and looked much fitter than Ebi Smolarek, who had a very poor debut. Fabrice Muamba and Danny Shittu also had stinkers.
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- Alternatively, Shittu is getting an unfair amount of stick and is far from our worst defender.
- Kevin Nolan had his best performance in a white shirt for three years.
- The only positive performance was from the fans, who were excellent throughout the game. The atmosphere in the Reebok Stadium was great, even though the stewards seem intent on silencing the so-called ‘singing section’ in the North Stand.
- Setanta’s coverage was totally biased. After the game all they talked about was the Kevin Davies tackle with hardly any mention of the offside goal.
- It was a great tackle from Davies, even Mark Lawrenson said so on Match of the Day! So Arsenal fans should stop whinging about it.
- However, why did MOTD ask Nicklas Bendtner about it? He even admitted he couldn’t see it properly. Why not ask Davies himself?
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