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Reebok Round-Up (28.04.09)
Tuesday, April 28th, 2009 | Ariza Makukula, BWFC News, BWFC People, Gary Megson, Joey O'Brien, Kevin Nolan, Nicky Hunt, Phil Gartside, Sam Allardyce, Sammy Lee | 1 Comment
What Manny Road has been reading (and thinking) about Bolton Wanderers
Bolton Wanderers 1-1 Aston Villa: The fans’ view
Monday, April 27th, 2009 | BWFC News, BWFC People, Chris Basham, Fabrice Muamba, Gary Megson, Gavin McCann, Johan Elmander, Kevin Davies, Nicky Hunt, Tamir Cohen | No Comments
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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 message boards made of the 1-1 home draw with Aston Villa…
11 things you (don’t) need to know about Arsenal v Bolton Wanderers
Saturday, January 10th, 2009 | BWFC News, BWFC People, Gary Cahill, Gary Megson, Gavin McCann, Kevin Davies, Kevin Nolan, Nicky Hunt | 2 Comments
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Your guide to all the pointless pre-match predictions and previews
1. Despite the fact that we haven’t troubled the big four all season, and that we’ve lost our last five meetings with Arsenal, Bolton Wanderers still appear hold a certain amount of fear for Arsenal fans, particularly Kevin Davies’ tackles and our set pieces (clearly they haven’t seen Gavin McCann taking a corner).
Wanderers window shopping: Dispatch #1
Tuesday, January 6th, 2009 | Ali Al-Habsi, BWFC People, Gary Megson, Heidar Helguson, Jussi Jaaskelainen, Kevin Davies, Kevin Nolan, Nicky Hunt, Sam Allardyce, Tal Ben Haim | No Comments
From the sublime to the ridiculous… all the latest ins, outs and shaking it all abouts from the January transfer window
7 things you (don’t) need to know about Sunderland v Bolton Wanderers
Saturday, January 3rd, 2009 | Ali Al-Habsi, BWFC News, BWFC People, Gary Megson, Gavin McCann, Gretar Steinsson, Kevin Davies, Nicky Hunt | No Comments
Your guide to all the pointless FA Cup previews and predictions
1. Gary Megson will name a strong team (but only because our squad is so small, not because he actually wants to win the FA Cup or anything daft like that).
Top 10 Bolton Wanderers players of 2008: Day 6
Saturday, December 27th, 2008 | BWFC People, Gretar Steinsson, Nicky Hunt | No Comments
Celebrating the best Bolton Wanderers players of the last 12 months
At number 5 in my countdown of the best Bolton Wanderers players of 2008 is…
Recommended reading (3.12.08): Kevin Nolan… literally the most confusing interviews ever
Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008 | BWFC People, Gary Megson, Johan Elmander, Kevin Nolan, Nicky Hunt, Phil Gartside | No Comments
What Manny Road has been reading (and thinking) about Bolton Wanderers today…
- Kevin Nolan has ‘quite literally been taking a leaf out of Roy Keane’s book,’ according to The Bolton News. Apparently he’s been reading up on the Sunderland manager (but if he really was ‘quite literally taking a leaf out of Keane’s book’, wouldn’t there be some kind of leaf extraction involved in the process? Or am I taking the phrase ‘quite literally’ a little too literally?).
Recommended reading (5.11.08): It’s official… Bolton Wanderers are rubbish. And so are Phil Gartside’s ideas
Wednesday, November 5th, 2008 | BWFC People, El-Hadji Diouf, Gary Megson, Gretar Steinsson, Jlloyd Samuel, Nicky Hunt, Owen Coyle, Phil Gartside | No Comments
What Manny Road has been reading (and thinking) about Bolton Wanderers today…
- Some stats from Martin Tyler on Sky Sports suggesting Bolton have been rubbish in derbies over the last year or so (I think he’ll find Bolton have been rubbish in most matches over the last 12 months, derbies or not).
Guess the lazy Bolton Wanderers player
Sunday, August 10th, 2008 | BWFC People, Fabrice Muamba, Gary Cahill, Gary Megson, Gavin McCann, Ian Walker, James Sinclair, Jlloyd Samuel, Johan Elmander, Kevin Davies, Kevin Nolan, Matt Taylor, Nicky Hunt, Sam Allardyce, Temitope Obadeyi | 2 Comments
Gary Megson admits one of his players is bone idol
Regular readers will know that I’m not a big fan of your regular run-of-the-mill ‘Johan Elmander could be brilliant, could be a flop (never really seen him play so I’ll sit on the fence)’ type season previews.
So imagine my surprise when I read a genuinely interesting account of Bolton Wanderers’ pre-season preparations in this morning’s Sunday Times, which details some of the pretty gruesome-sounding training the players have been doing over the last few weeks.
Perhaps even more surprising is that Gary Megson’s trademark calling-a-spade-a-spade quotes are actually quite intersting. ‘I’m not into all this bullshit-baffles-brains stuff,’ he says when asked about Sam Allardyce’s Cryopod machine, which ‘makes the body think it’s dying’.
Megson also reveals that one of his first actions at Bolton was to tear down the ‘It’s not the result, it’s how you go about it that matters’ sign at the Euxton training ground.
The highlight of the piece, though, is when the Wanderers boss admits one of his players is lazy. ‘There’s no excuse for a modern player to be in the wrong condition. It can only be down to laziness and not being professional,’ says Megson immediately after admitting:
Only one of our players has ‘issues’ and I’ve told him to address them because he’ll fall behind. Otherwise he’s a great lad and good enough to play for England.
So let’s narrow this down. Bolton have 10 English players. Let’s rule out the three squad players – Ian Walker, James Sinclair and Temitope Obadeyi – straight away. And let’s assume that no-one in their right mind could ever think Nicky Hunt or Jlloyd Samuel are good enough to play for England.
That leaves five, three of whom – Gary Cahill, Matt Taylor and Fabrice Muamba – were signed by Megson. So if we assume that the Ginger Mourinho had the foresight to check out their fitness statistics before he signed them (plus Taylor’s outstanding fitness is given special mention elsewhere in the article), we’re left with the two Kevins: Davies and Nolan.
Who’s your money on?
:UPDATE: Not for the first time, I failed to notice Gavin McCann… so we actually have 11 English players. But surely he falls in to the same category as Hunt and Samuel, right?
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