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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.

The Daily Mail and the Times are similarly grim about Chris Hughton’s struggling side, although they do both say that Newcastle were unlucky not to get a penalty for Jlloyd Samuel’s handball.

Of course, that injustice was evened up by Bolton’s own shout for a penalty in the first half – a point overlooked by many of the newspapers.

The Mirror says bringing on match-winner Ricardo Gardner at half time was a tactical masterstroke by Gary Megson. The Telegraph also heaps praise on Megson for this victory, claiming he is a “perfect fit for the Reebok Stadium” and praising Bolton for “cutting Newcastle apart.”

To his credit, though, Megson refused to take the plaudits, with most of the papers – including the Independent – reporting him as saying that “managers get too much praise when substitutions work.”

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