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Stoke 2-0 Bolton: The fans’ view

Friday, March 6th, 2009 | Andy O'Brien, Ariza Makukula, BWFC News, BWFC People, Gary Megson, Jlloyd Samuel, Johan Elmander, Jussi Jaaskelainen, Kevin Davies, Mario Jardel, Ricardo Gardner, Sam Allardyce | No Comments

The Bolton Wanderers 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 Whites’ 2-0 defeat at Stoke…

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Bolton 1-0 Newcastle: What the papers say

Monday, March 2nd, 2009 | BWFC News, BWFC People, Gary Megson, Jlloyd Samuel, Ricardo Gardner | No Comments

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How the national press reported the Wanderers 1-0 home win over Newcastle

Most of the papers concentrate primarily on the mounting woes at Newcastle in their match reports.

The Guardian went to town on them, cataloguing their many problems in great detail (not leaving much room for analysis of Bolton’s performance), whilst the Sun pointed out that the travelling Geordie fans turned on their team.

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Jlloyd likes to talk, but has he done the math?

Wednesday, February 18th, 2009 | BWFC News, BWFC People, Jlloyd Samuel | No Comments

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Jlloyd Samuel feels nice and rested… but will it do him any good against West Ham this weekend?

Jlloyd Samuel seems to have become Bolton Wanderers’ official spokesman during this international/FA Cup fallow period. A whole host of Samuel-based stories – not all of them especially fascinating, it has to be said – have kept the Wanderers news pages churning out copy during this terminally-slow-news couple of weeks.

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Reebok round-up (16.02.09)

Monday, February 16th, 2009 | Ali Al-Habsi, BWFC News, BWFC People, Danny Shittu, Gary Megson, Jlloyd Samuel, Johan Elmander, Kevin Davies, Mark Davies, Matt Taylor, Nat Lofthouse | No Comments

What Manny Road has been reading (and thinking) about Bolton Wanderers

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Everton 3-0 Bolton: What the papers say

Monday, February 9th, 2009 | Ariza Makukula, BWFC News, BWFC People, Gary Megson, Jlloyd Samuel | No Comments

Before or after a match (against Sunderland(?))

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How the press reported the Wanderers 3-0 hammering at Goodison Park

Ominously, The Observer compared the Wanderers’ performance to Derby of last season and said that Everton beat us with “minimal fuss”. The Express‘ adjectives of choice were “dominated” and “comfortable”.

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6 things you (probably don’t) need to know about Bolton and Spurs

Saturday, January 31st, 2009 | BWFC News, BWFC People, Jlloyd Samuel, Sebastien Puygrenier | No Comments

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What the web is predicting will happen between Bolton and Spurs this afternoon

1. Harry Redknapp thinks his players aren’t strong enough… so a game against a team that hasn’t won since December 20th may be just what they need.

2. They’ll have to do it without Jermain Defoe though, who will be out for the rest of the season (possibly).

3. Bwfc.co.uk, of course, prefers to focus on Tottenham’s poor record at the Reebok Stadium.

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Hall of Fame #8: Ricardo Gardner (footballer, pop svengali, friend of Barack Obama)

Monday, January 26th, 2009 | BWFC News, BWFC People, Jlloyd Samuel, Ricardo Gardner | 1 Comment

Celebrating great figures in Bolton Wanderers history

Barack Obama: Fan of Jamaican music

Barack Obama: Fan of Ricardo Gardner's music

There are various reasons why Ricardo Gardner deserves a place in Manny Road’s Bolton Wanderers Hall of Fame: 10 years of service, over 300 appearances… blah blah blah.

But there’s much more to Ricardo Gardner than silky skills, pace and, well, let’s be honest, losing his balance and falling over the ball rather a lot.

According to his Wikipedia page, ‘Bibi’ – as he’s known to his friends – is also something of a musical svengali. Of course, as with most facts on Wikipedia (especially ones that lack citations, as these do), a little more investigation is required.

So…

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Wanderers window shopping dispatch #3: Is that the sound of a barrel being scraped?

Sunday, January 25th, 2009 | BWFC News, Danny Shittu, Jlloyd Samuel, Ricardo Vaz Te, Ricky Sbragia, Sam Allardyce, Sebastien Puygrenier, Tamir Cohen | 1 Comment

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The ins, the outs and the shaking it all abouts at Bolton Wanderers this January transfer window

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The Guardian estimates that we have £5 million to spend, which is why Joey Barton (thank God), Jimmy Bullard (another person who thinks Phil Brown is a better bet than Gary Megson) and several others (see shaking it all abouts below) will not be donning the white shirt any time soon.

Instead, Megson will be searching the bargain basement bucket for the remainder of this season’s January transfer window, for example…

Swindon Town striker Ian Cox is wanted by Bolton and, er Barnsley and Huddersfield (to be fair Spurs and Fulham are also being linked). Other cheap options could be Grant Leadbitter (Sunderland), Szabolcs Huszt (Hannover) and Mark Davies (Wolves).

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Media Watch: Liverpool love-in masks Bolton’s failings

Sunday, December 28th, 2008 | BWFC People, Gary Megson, Jlloyd Samuel, Kevin Nolan | 1 Comment

How the papers reported Bolton’s 3-0 defeat to Liverpool on Boxing Day

There seems to be no doubt who most of the papers would like to win the Premier League this season.

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Top 10 Bolton Wanderers players of 2008: Day 5

Friday, December 26th, 2008 | BWFC People, Jlloyd Samuel, Ricardo Gardner | No Comments

Celebrating the best Bolton Wanderers players of the last 12 months

At number 6 in my countdown of the best Bolton Wanderers players of 2008 is…

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