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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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Bolton Wanderers 1-1 Aston Villa: What the papers say

Monday, April 27th, 2009 | BWFC News, BWFC People, Gary Megson, Johan Elmander, Phil Gartside | No Comments

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How the national press reported Bolton Wanderers 1-1 Aston Villa

It seems like we’ve been hearing this for weeks now, but yet again we’re told by the Mail that Bolton are just one win away from definite safety. The same paper also tells us that Gary Megson believes Bolton have “hearts as big as buckets all over the pitch.”

Big hearts maybe (although that wasn’t necessarily the case at Portsmouth last week), but the Guardian thought the Wanderers display lacked inspiration, saying that “the highlights of this encounter will not make it into any PowerPoint presentations put together for Bolton chairman Phil Gartside’s proposed two-tier top-flight that would include Celtic, Rangers and, of course, Wanderers.”

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Recommended reading (19.12.08): Big Sam gets a new disease

Friday, December 19th, 2008 | BWFC People, Gary Megson, Sam Allardyce | No Comments

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

- The Times declaring that Sam Allardyce’s failure to land a managerial job meant that he’d been infected by the ‘English disease’, which of course was made to look a little bit silly when he was appointed manager of Blackburn a few days later (although some might argue that’s a very different kind of disease).

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The Burning Question: Have you changed your mind about Gary Megson?

Saturday, November 29th, 2008 | BWFC People, Gary Megson | 7 Comments

Have your say on the burning question following Bolton’s 4-1 win at Sunderland…

Today’s 4-1 thrashing of Sunderland continued the Wanderers recent run of good form: three wins in the last four away from home, four wins from the last five home and away, for the stattos. We are still only five points from the relegation zone, but we are also only five points from the Champions League places.

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