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Time to ‘get real’ about Bolton Wanderers. Here goes…

Wednesday, January 13th, 2010 | BWFC News, Gary Megson, Owen Coyle | 10 Comments

Keeping it real, unless youre a journalist of course (via nimish gogri)

Keeping it real, unless you're a journalist of course (via nimish gogri)

Football fans will ‘get real’ when journalists do too…

Disliking Bolton Wanderers has become default mode for most journalists and pundits these days. Their main problems with us are that we bullied Gary Megson out of a job and have ideas above our station when it comes to what we think our team should be capable of.

The first point has been covered at length on this site, but I will just link to a comment I left on this article, which repeated the misleading argument that results had nothing to do with Megson’s sacking. I added a bit of realism.

On the second, am I the only person who finds it incredibly ironic that Sky and theĀ  newspapers, who have spent the last 15 years hyping the ‘promise land’ of the Premier League, are now telling us that we should ‘get real’?

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Reebok Round-Up (10.02.09)

Tuesday, February 10th, 2009 | BWFC News, BWFC People, Gary Megson, Jay-Jay Okocha, Kevin Davies, Mark Davies | No Comments

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

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Bolton Wanderers Hall of Shame #7: Rob Styles

Monday, November 17th, 2008 | BWFC People, Gary Cahill, Kevin Nolan, Ricardo Gardner | 3 Comments

We was Rob-bed… again!

When Rob Styles gave the worst penalty decision ever against us at Manchester United earlier this season, I was among the very few Bolton Wanderers fans who defended him; pointing out that in comparison to certain other referees, Styles’ crimes against us were relatively minor (i.e it was only one mistake).

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