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Birmingham City 1-2 Bolton Wanderers: Video highlights
Saturday, September 26th, 2009 | BWFC Goals, BWFC People, Lee Chung-Yong, Tamir Cohen | 3 Comments
For those who don’t want to wait for until the last five minutes of Match of the Day
All the goals from Bolton’s 2-1 win at Birmingham today…
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Wanderers window shopping dispatch #2: Megson gets a Brazilian
Wednesday, January 7th, 2009 | BWFC People, El-Hadji Diouf, Kevin Davies, Kevin Nolan | No Comments
The ins, outs and shaking it all abouts at Bolton Wanderers this January transfer window
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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
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Recommended reading (18.11.08): Capello’s Cahill snub, the curse of Chelsea and more Megsonisms
Tuesday, November 18th, 2008 | BWFC People, Gary Cahill, Gary Megson, Sam Allardyce, Sammy Lee | 1 Comment
What Manny Road was reading (and thinking) about Bolton Wanderers yesterday…
- An England squad that included Wolves (yes, that’s Wolves of the Championship) defender Michael Mancienne, who is on loan from Chelsea because he can’t get a game there (what does Gary Cahill have to do to get a call-up, other than playing consistently well in the Premier League every week?).
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The Ivan Campo Appreciation Society: Exhibit A
Sunday, July 27th, 2008 | BWFC People, Fabrice Muamba, Franck Passi, Ivan Campo, Ivan Campo Appreciation Society | No Comments
In loving memory of Bolton Wanderers legend Ivan Campo
I keep reading that Fabrice Muamba, the Wanderers’ £5 million summer signing from Birmingham City, is the new Ivan Campo.
I’d like to dispel this theory before he’s even kicked a ball (actually he kicked a ball at Rochdale the other night, but pre-season friendlies against League 2 teams don’t count – especially ones that end 0-0).
To do this I’ve set up The Ivan Campo Appreciation Society, whose aim is to prove that being ‘the next Ivan Campo’ isn’t just about playing in the holding role in front of the back four. There’s much more to Ivan Campo’s legendary status than that…
Exhibit A: Campo writes two heart-felt letters to Wanderers fans
Thanks to the mainstream media’s obsession with over-cooked transfer gossip and the tedious ramblings of Gary Megson, I almost completely missed this story. I discovered it earlier today thanks to fans on the Bolton Wanderers Mad forum.
It all started back in June when Campo used his slot as a guest columnist on Guillem Balague’s website to write an open letter to all Bolton Wanderers fans. It started thus…
I’m writing you this open letter because I never had the chance to say farewell to you all following my last match at the Reebok. I really want to say thank you for all the great years that you’ve given me: and believe me, I feel you gave them to me, rather than I to you. It’s been a marvellous experience and I am going to miss the build up to the games when my hands would get clammy at the prospect of putting in a good display and a great afternoon’s football for you all.
Eighteen paragraphs later it ended with…
My Bolton friends, you must know that you will always be with me and have a special place deep in my heart.
Tear-jerking indeed. But it didn’t stop there. Campo’s letter gained an unprecedented response from grateful Wanderers fans, and in return Campo wrote another letter three days ago, which ended…
I consider myself privileged to have had the opportunity to have represented you and – as I can see from your letters – to have helped bring as much joy to you as you have given to me.
In an era when we’re used to hearing players spout the same old ‘game of two halves’, ‘take each game as it comes’, ‘all credit to Team X they never laid down’ bollocks, how refreshing to see a player address the people that have paid his wages for the last four years with genuine appreciation and respect.
P.S. Fabrice, I hope that in years to come this blog finds reason to start an appreciation society for you. Until then, please just concentrate on not being the next Franck Passi.
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