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

Wednesday, January 13th, 2010 | BWFC News, Gary Megson, Owen Coyle | 7 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 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 OBrien: Better than sex

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

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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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Recommended reading (4.11.08): Megson clings on for dear life at ‘unfashionable’ Bolton

Tuesday, November 4th, 2008 | Alan Cork, BWFC People, Fabrice Muamba, Gary Megson, Jay-Jay Okocha, Johan Elmander, Kevin Nolan, Phil Brown, Phil Gartside, Ricardo Gardner, Sam Allardyce, Youri Djorkaeff | No Comments

What Manny Road has been reading (and thinking) about Bolton Wanderers over the last few days…

- This amusing photo essay of Gary Megson’s career at Bolton Wanderers and, from the same site, a break down of the managers we shouldn’t get to replace Megson (not sure about Sam Allardyce’s inclusion, though).

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