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Every Day’s a cup final for Mark Halsey….!
Thursday, April 22nd, 2010 | BWFC Goals, BWFC News, BWFC People, Football Association, Ivan Campo, Jay-Jay Okocha, Nicolas Anelka, Owen Coyle, Phil Gartside, Premier League, Premiership referees, Sam Allardyce, Youri Djorkaeff | 11 Comments
The support from football fans and ordinary people in the street has been inspirational
Click the link to listen to Mark Halsey’s Exclusive interview.
http://www.zshare.net/audio/751463426e948768/
Despite hailing from Hertfordshire, Mark Halsey has firmly established himself as one of Bolton’s favourite adopted sons. After spending 12 years playing non-league football for Cambridge City and Hertford Town he began his refereeing career in 1989 and a decade later refereed the famous 1999 Football League One Play-off Final between Gillingham and Manchester City at Wembley. The same year he was promoted to Premier League status and shortly after the FIFA List of referees. He quickly established himself as one of the most popular referees in the League.
Mark was kind enough to take time out of his schedule to speak Exclusively to Manny Road & bwfcforum’s Andi Walton. He started by asking him about his current health:
MH: Yeah I’m feeling very good, I seem to be getting stronger with every game I do and it’s a bonus for me because I never thought I’d be back refereeing again, so every day is a cup final and it’s really great to be back and the reception I’ve received from the two games I’ve done at Rotherham and Port Vale and Oldham and Bristol Rovers, the fans have been absolutely fantastic and it’s been very emotional and overwhelming for me.
AW: It must have been the furthest thing from your mind getting out on the football pitch when you were in the midst of your treatment but now you’ve got to that stage, it must be a real thrill.
MH: For me to come back and, you know, I suppose…for what I’ve gone through with all my chemotherapy and my radiotherapy…I mean if you saw me at Christmas, I was nowhere near the Mark Halsey of old, you know, but I’ve worked hard and a lot of people have helped me and it’s been great. The support I’ve received from people around the country – just ordinary football fans and ordinary people in the street. They’ve been inspirational to me and they’ve got to really pat themselves on the back for the way they’ve helped me and it’s down to them that I’m back where I am now.
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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 you're 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 the 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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Sex sells, unless it’s about Bolton Wanderers
Tuesday, July 28th, 2009 | Andy O'Brien, BWFC News, BWFC People, Gary Megson, Paul Robinson, Phil Gartside, Sam Allardyce, Sam Ricketts, Sean Davis, Zat Knight | No Comments
Finally, something to wake Wanderers fans from their summer slumber
Andy O'Brien: Better than sex
It’s not often you see the words ‘Bolton Wanderers’ and ’sex’ in the same headline.
In fact, thanks largely to the existence of Gary Megson, it’s not often you see the words ‘Bolton Wanderers’ and anything remotely interesting and exciting or interesting in the same headline.
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Manchester City 1-0 Bolton Wanderers: Video highlights
Monday, May 25th, 2009 | BWFC Goals | No Comments
Watch Bolton Wanderers wave goodbye to a season to forget
Fittingly, at the end of a season dominated by tedium and mediocrity, the Wanderers bowed out of the 2008-09 season with a drab away defeat to Man City…
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Reebok Round-Up (24.02.09)
Tuesday, February 24th, 2009 | BWFC News, BWFC People, Gary Cahill, Gary Megson, Gary Speed, Kevin Davies, Kevin Nolan | No Comments
What Manny Road has been reading about Bolton Wanderers over the last few days
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Are these guys really better than Jussi Jaaskelainen?
Sunday, February 8th, 2009 | BWFC News, BWFC People, Jussi Jaaskelainen | 1 Comment
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Why was Bolton’s keeper not included in best keepers list?
The Daily Mail completed its countdown of football’s 50 greatest goalkeepers on Friday, and there was no place in the list for Bolton’s Jussi Jaaskelainen.
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11 things you (probably don’t) need to know about Everton v Bolton Wanderers
Saturday, February 7th, 2009 | Ariza Makukula, BWFC News, BWFC People, Ebi Smolarek, Gary Megson, Kevin Davies, Matt Taylor, Sebastien Puygrenier | No Comments
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Your guide to all the hot air and pointless historical facts ahead of Bolton’s trip to Goodison Park
Reasons to be cheerful…
1. Everton played 120 minutes on Wednesday night in the FA Cup against Liverpool, while the Wanderers were sitting at home with their feet up enjoying ITV’s, ahem, excellent coverage of the game.
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Wanderers window shopping dispatch #3: Is that the sound of a barrel being scraped?
Sunday, January 25th, 2009 | BWFC News, Danny Shittu, Jlloyd Samuel, Ricardo Vaz Te, Ricky Sbragia, Sam Allardyce, Sebastien Puygrenier, Tamir Cohen | 1 Comment
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The ins, the outs and the shaking it all abouts at Bolton Wanderers this January transfer window
Ins
The Guardian estimates that we have £5 million to spend, which is why Joey Barton (thank God), Jimmy Bullard (another person who thinks Phil Brown is a better bet than Gary Megson) and several others (see shaking it all abouts below) will not be donning the white shirt any time soon.
Instead, Megson will be searching the bargain basement bucket for the remainder of this season’s January transfer window, for example…
Swindon Town striker Ian Cox is wanted by Bolton and, er Barnsley and Huddersfield (to be fair Spurs and Fulham are also being linked). Other cheap options could be Grant Leadbitter (Sunderland), Szabolcs Huszt (Hannover) and Mark Davies (Wolves).
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Top 10 Bolton Wanderers games of 2008: Day 4
Thursday, December 25th, 2008 | BWFC People, Gary Megson, Mustapha Riga, Ricardo Gardner | 1 Comment
Celebrating the best Bolton Wanderers games of 2008
At number 7 in my countdown of the best Bolton Wanderers games of 2008 is…
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The Bolton News gets with the programme
Friday, November 14th, 2008 | BWFC News | No Comments
How to fill the space on a slow Bolton Wanderers news day…
Did anyone else get deja vu reading the interview with Wanderers physio Paul Lake in The Bolton News earlier this week?
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