Gary Megson
Time to ‘get real’ about Bolton Wanderers. Here goes…
Wednesday, January 13th, 2010 | BWFC News, Gary Megson, Owen Coyle | 7 Comments
Keeping it real, unless you're a journalist of course (via nimish gogri)
Keeping it real, unless you're a journalist of course (via nimish gogri)
Football fans will ‘get real’ when journalists do too…
Disliking Bolton Wanderers has become default mode for most journalists and pundits these days. Their main problems with us are that we bullied Gary Megson out of a job and have ideas above our station when it comes to what we think our team should be capable of.
The first point has been covered at length on this site, but I will just link to a comment I left on this article, which repeated the misleading argument that results had nothing to do with Megson’s sacking. I added a bit of realism.
On the second, am I the only person who finds it incredibly ironic that Sky and the newspapers, who have spent the last 15 years hyping the ‘promise land’ of the Premier League, are now telling us that we should ‘get real’?
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It’s limbo baby, limbo
Thursday, January 7th, 2010 | BWFC News, BWFC People, Gary Megson, Owen Coyle | No Comments
Phil Gartside auditions for Gary Megson's replacement (via Dave Hogg)
Phil Gartside auditions for Gary Megson's replacement (via Dave Hogg)
In the first post by one of Manny Road’s new writers, Wanderers fan Bruce Garrow gives his view on the Gary Megson/Owen Coyle saga…
We’ve never had it so good. Barring a lengthy cup run or an ambitious voyage into the top half of the table, a managerial shake-up is as much excitement as Bolton fans can expect this year. Once again the media searchlight hovers our way as General Gartside cleans out a mess of his own making.
Owen Coyle and Gary Megson were both in the running to succeed Sammy Lee back in 2007, but our chairman recommended Coyle to Burnley and they took him at his word. In the meantime, Megson’s stewardship was thankfully consigned to history at the turn of the year. So now we’re afforded a rare chance to see how history can play out with Gartside’s other favourite, who is likely to return, pending compensation.
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A tribute to Gary Megson
Thursday, December 31st, 2009 | BWFC News, BWFC People, Gary Megson | 1 Comment
The morning after the night before…
With the celebratory hangover now slowly healing, Manny Road would like to pay this tribute to former Bolton Wanderers manager (how good does that feel?) Gary Megson…
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Wake me up when Gary Megson has gone from Bolton Wanderers
Monday, November 23rd, 2009 | BWFC News, BWFC People, Gary Megson, Phil Gartside | 13 Comments
Will the last person to leave the Reebok Stadium please turn out the lights
Will the last person to leave the Reebok Stadium please turn out the lights
Manny Road is officially going dark…
After a month of very little activity here on Manny Road, I’ve finally decided to put the blog on hold for a while.
I’ve been mulling this over for some time. Partly it’s motivated by factors in my own life: lack of time, an array of other projects to be getting on with, and the realisation that I’ve learnt pretty much everything I can from the Manny Road project – not least that you can’t make money from blogging; not about Bolton Wanderers anyway.
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Alex Ferguson doesn’t give a toss about Gary Megson
Tuesday, October 20th, 2009 | BWFC News, BWFC People, Gary Megson | No Comments
Alex Ferguson goes in to hiding after hearing Gary Megson thinks they're mates now. Pic from tpower1978
Alex Ferguson goes in to hiding after hearing Gary Megson thinks they're mates now. Pic from tpower1978
The Bolton News falls for the United boss’ mind games
I Twittered last night about the appalling levels of hypocrisy on Five Live Sport, who went seamlessly from talking about how out of order football fans are for abusing players to then justifying Alex Ferguson’s abuse of referee Alan Wiley.
But Five Live aren’t the only ones who’ve swallowed Fergie’s spin.
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Gary Megson is kissing the wrong backsides
Friday, October 16th, 2009 | BWFC News, Gary Megson | No Comments
A young Gary Megson prepares for later life with foot in mouth, pic from Qole Pejorian
A young Gary Megson prepares for later life with foot in mouth, pic from Qole Pejorian
The Bolton Wanderers manager should concentrate on brown-nosing fans, not Alex Ferguson
If there’s a Gary Megson interview taking place in the national media these days, you can guarantee that one of the questions on the journalists’ list will be something along the lines of: “So Gary, how does it feel to be hated by your own fans?”
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Your views on BWFC welcome… as long as they’re completely stupid
Tuesday, October 6th, 2009 | BWFC News, BWFC People, Gary Megson | 1 Comment
How to interview a Bolton Wanderers fan, courtesy of striatic
Just in case anyone cares what we think…
Following on from my post the other day about the use of silly analogies, I stumbled across another – albeit over a week old – article that shows how generalisations and misrepresentations are being used to bash Bolton Wanderers fans and their dislike of Gary Megson.
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10 ways Gary Megson COULD win Wanderers fans over
Saturday, October 3rd, 2009 | BWFC News, BWFC People, Gary Megson, Gavin McCann, Johan Elmander | 3 Comments
Katie and Peter: More annoying than Gary Megson. Pic from shimelle, some rights reserved
Katie and Peter: More annoying than Gary Megson. Pic from shimelle, some rights reserved
How Gary Megson could become more popular than Adolf Hitler
Ridiculous analogies are the latest weapon of choice for the army of Pro-Megsonites (mainly non-Wanderers), who have taken it upon themselves to criticise Bolton fans for daring to have an opinion about the manager whose wages they pay.
SquareFootball (a good site that Manny Road enjoys a good relationship with, but isn’t afraid to criticise when they get it totally wrong), suggested recently that Bolton fans wouldn’t get behind Gary Megson even if he guided us to the Champions League.
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It’s good to talk (unless it’s Gary Megson doing the talking)
Thursday, September 24th, 2009 | BWFC News, BWFC People, Gary Megson | No Comments
Gary Megson's latest press conference
Gary Megson's latest press conference
Bolton Wanderers’ online communications strategy? Stick head in sand…
With vitriol pouring down from the terraces on a regular basis at the Reebok Stadium these days, you might think that the club would want to go on a PR offensive. But like a Gary Megson team selection, the club’s PR strategy is decidedly defensive – especially on the web.
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Bolton Wanderers fans should be seen and not heard
Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009 | BWFC News, BWFC People, Gary Megson, Nicolas Anelka | 5 Comments
Pay your money, sit down, shut up and enjoy the one-way ride to mediocrity...
Pay your money, sit down, shut up and enjoy the one-way ride to mediocrity...
Gary Megson’s supporters in the media are totally missing the point
Something’s been puzzling me for a while. Why are the media so keen to criticise Bolton fans for our treatment of Gary Megson?
In some of my previous posts I’ve suggested that it’s caused by people who have no emotional (and therefore irrational) attachment to the club finding it impossible to fully understand how Megson has undermined the spirit that has been slowly built over the last 15-20 years.
But after reading some of the reports of the latest Megson hate-in, against Stoke at the Reebok on Saturday, I’ve come up with another theory.
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