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Bolton Wanderers Hall of Fame #7: Ian Greaves
Saturday, January 3rd, 2009 | BWFC News, BWFC People, Bruce Rioch, Ian Greaves | No Comments
Celebrating great names from Bolton Wanderers’ history
Former Bolton Wanderers manager Ian Greaves died at the age of 76 on Friday.
Sorry seems to be the hardest word at Bolton Wanderers
Wednesday, October 1st, 2008 | BWFC People, Gary Megson, Gavin McCann, Mustapha Riga | No Comments
Will Gary Megson take his own advice?
Tapping the phone call between Gary Megson and Rob Styles on Monday, when the whistle-happy referee phoned the Bolton Wanderers manager to apologise for giving Manchester United a penalty on Saturday, would have made interesting listening.
Megson made it clear after the game on Saturday that he was only interested in an apology from Styles if it was a public one. He said:
I don’t want him to ring me up. I would have more respect from him if he just holds his hands up and says he was wrong.
As Gordon Sharrock points out in The Bolton News, keeping the apology private suggests Styles is trying to save his own neck rather than clearing the air in any meaningful way.
Nevertheless, I would have thought that Megson is the last man to pass judgment on Styles when it comes to taking responsibility for your actions.
Perhaps Megson would like to show Styles how it’s done by making a public apology for the following:
1. Fielding an under-strength team against Sporting Lisbon last season when thousands of Wanderers fans had paid hundreds of pounds to travel to Portugal in the hope of seeing their team progress in the Uefa Cup.
2. Allowing his team to be knocked out of the Carling Cup without even a hint of a fight against Northampton earlier this season.
3. Continuing to play Gavin McCann when Mustapha Riga has looked about a million times better on the rare occasions he’s been given a chance.
4. Criticising the fans for making mountains out of mole hills.
5. Criticising the players for being ‘one dimensional’, despite the fact that he picks a teams with three defensive midfielders in them.
There’s probably more. Feel free to add your own in the comments below…
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Media Watch: Bolton News ignore Kevin Davies to Hull story
Friday, August 1st, 2008 | Abdoulaye Meite, BWFC People, El-Hadji Diouf, Kevin Davies | 1 Comment
Kevin Davies could leave Bolton Wanderers for Hull City… unless you read The Bolton News
This morning my inbox was dominated with news that Hull City are lining up a bid for Bolton Wanderers striker Kevin Davies. The story was on the Hull Daily Mail website, Yorkshire Post and an Irish football website called SquareFootball.
Yet there was no mention of it at all on The Bolton News website. So I gave it a couple of hours… and by 12.30pm there was still no mention of Davies by The Bolton News, who instead led their Wanderers page with a story about Chorley having a lad from Bolton in their team (who would’ve thought it?) and El-Hadji Diouf talking about his ambitions at Sunderland (he’s gone, we’re over it already).
There are two possibilities here: either The Bolton News have decided the story is nonsense, in which case I expect to see a ‘Wanderers rubbish Davies bid reports’ type story once they’ve got the relevant quote from a club insider (although they still could have reported the rumour in the meantime); or they have missed the story altogether.
If it’s the latter, could it be linked to the recent retreat from front line duties of veteran Wanderers reporter Gordon Sharrock?
:UPDATE: As you can see from the top story on my BWFC news feed on the right, the BBC reported at 3:18pm that Hull City have confirmed Bolton Wanderers have turned down a £2 million offer for Kevin Davies… still no mention on The Bolton News though.
My guess is that it will appear tomorrow once it’s been printed in the newspaper, but by then anybody who cares about this story will have already read about it on the web.
:EVEN LATER: So it appears the version of the story The Bolton News was sitting on yesterday is that the club are to offer Davies a new deal in retaliation against Hull’s offer. This story was finally added to the site at 10.10 this morning. The only problem was that the introductory paragraph displayed under the headline ‘New deal for Davo’ was the same as the one for the latest Abdoulaye Meite/West Brom story. And the link led to an ‘article not found’ page.
:LATER STILL: As of 11am the article now appears to work but the home page still shows the wrong intro…
Kevin Davies: Not to be confused with Abdoulaye Meite
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