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Burnley Football Club Just Keeps on Giving as Bolton Snatch a Point
Sunday, August 29th, 2010 | BWFC Goals, BWFC News, BWFC People, Johan Elmander, Kevin Davies | 1 Comment
It remains to be seen whether former Burnley manager Owen Coyle will make a success of his time at the Reebok, but another recruit from the poor relations in East Lancashire made a more immediate impact, as Bolton snatched an unlikely point against Birmingham City.
Player, shirt, grin, with zimmer frame cunningly concealed
Robbie Blake had done nothing, apart from look old, after he replaced Johan Elmander, but his free kick that gave the Whites a share of the points was a peach. Ben Foster in the Birmingham goal couldn’t have been further from the ball if he’d been outside the stadium.
Five minutes into the second half things had looked grim for the home side, after Craig Gardner put Birmingham two up. By this stage, they were down to ten men, Jussi Jaaskelainen having been sent off for bitch slapping Roger Johnson. The incident will be a prime candidate for inclusion in a future instalment of Football’s Most Embarrassing Moments. That left Adam Bodan, wearing a shirt almost the exact colour of his hair to make a league debut under the most difficult of circumstances.
Johnson appeared to be at the centre of everything. Early on he put the visitors ahead from a James McFadden cross, but was at fault when bundling Kevin Davies to the floor with twenty minutes remaining. Davies coolly slotted the resulting penalty home.
Bolton huffed and puffed to little effect, a Johan Elmander effort being the closest thing to a chance, but they were rescued as referee Kevin Friend lived up to his name. A clash between Gary Cahill and Barry Ferguson appeared to be six of one and half-a-dozen of the other, but a free kick was given to the home side just outside the penalty area, and Blake curled it brilliantly over the wall to give his new side a share of the spoils.
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Joy For Burnley Fans at the Sight of a Premier League Team
Saturday, August 28th, 2010 | BWFC News, BWFC People, Owen Coyle | 5 Comments
Bolton Wanderers have been drawn away to Championship relegation favourites Burnley in the third round of the Carling Cup.
Owen Coyle returns to the club he used as a stepping stone to much better things, but will take a team comprised of reserve and youth players as the competition is seen as distracting to a Premier League outfit. Brian Laws, his counterpart at Turf Moor is expected to field a full strength side.
Laws, who guided two different clubs to relegation last season, may see the tie as something of a swan song, as he isn’t expected to last in the job past Christmas. His team were crushed at Swansea this afternoon, leading to more pressure on the Clarets boss.
The tie will take place in the week commencing 20th September, and Burnley supporters are eagerly awaiting Coyle’s visit, as it gives them a chance to pay tribute to a man who took them to the only spell in top flight football they’re ever likely to see.
- Fans celebrate an unexpected chance to see a Premier League team
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Dodd’s on For Burnley Hotseat
Sunday, March 21st, 2010 | BWFC News, Gary Megson, Owen Coyle | 1 Comment
Ken Dodd being Shown around Turf Moor By Mr Kilby and his Assistant
Inside Football By Warren Obb
(Another regular contributor on bwfcforum.co.uk)
Sources close to Burnley FC claim ageing comedian Ken Dodd is on the verge of replacing Brian Laws in the latest sensational twist to the Lancashire club’s managerial saga.
Tickling stick
Having lost manager Owen Coyle to local rivals Bolton in January, Burnley chairman Barry Kilby acted swiftly to appoint perennial loser Brian Laws. Kilby was reputedly impressed by Laws’ ability to collect a meagre points tally without spending any money at Sheffield Wednesday. › Continue reading
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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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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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Bolton Wanderers Hall of Fame #6: Owen Coyle
Friday, December 5th, 2008 | Andy Walker, BWFC People, Fabian De Freitas, Gary Megson, Johan Elmander, John McGinlay, Keith Branagan, Kevin Davies, Mixu Paatelainen, Nat Lofthouse, Owen Coyle | No Comments
A scorer of important goals, worthy of his place in McDonald’s…
There was an interesting discussion on the Times’ The Game podcast recently about how strikers don’t score goals any more. Their evidence was that the only three of the Premier League’s top 10 goalscorers are still playing (and none of them are at the top of their game any more).
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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).
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Bolton finish third in the Premier League
Sunday, August 10th, 2008 | El-Hadji Diouf, Sam Allardyce | No Comments
Only Chelsea and Manchester United are better than Bolton Wanderers
No, your eyes do not deceive you. Only Manchester United and Chelsea are better than Bolton Wanderers… when it comes to being hated.
It’s official… well, it was in the Daily Mirror anyway. The Wanderers actually finished seventh in the poll, but four of the teams above them – Burnley, Millall, Wolves and England’s most hated club Leeds United – are not in the Premier League, and therefore may as well not exist.
Big Sam Allardyce made Bolton in to a top seven Premier League side by transforming the club from ‘plucky Bolton’ in to ‘big, horrible, nasty, will probably spit in your face (thanks Dioufy) and shag your wife Bolton’. And it’s great to see that that legacy has not been squandered, even if the real world Premier League position has slipped a little.
In the same poll Bury were voted the tenth most-liked club. I know where I’d rather be.
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