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Bolton Wanderers 1-1 Aston Villa: What the papers say

Monday, April 27th, 2009 | BWFC News, BWFC People, Gary Megson, Johan Elmander, Phil Gartside | No Comments

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How the national press reported Bolton Wanderers 1-1 Aston Villa

It seems like we’ve been hearing this for weeks now, but yet again we’re told by the Mail that Bolton are just one win away from definite safety. The same paper also tells us that Gary Megson believes Bolton have “hearts as big as buckets all over the pitch.”

Big hearts maybe (although that wasn’t necessarily the case at Portsmouth last week), but the Guardian thought the Wanderers display lacked inspiration, saying that “the highlights of this encounter will not make it into any PowerPoint presentations put together for Bolton chairman Phil Gartside’s proposed two-tier top-flight that would include Celtic, Rangers and, of course, Wanderers.”

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13 things you (probably don’t) need to know about Chelsea and Bolton Wanderers

Saturday, April 11th, 2009 | BWFC News, BWFC People, Gary Megson, Gavin McCann, Kevin Davies | No Comments

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Your guide to all the pre-match predictions and Mystic Meggery ahead of Chelsea v Bolton Wanderers

Reasons to be cheerful
1. Only Arsenal have a better record at Stamford Bridge than Bolton in recent years… in fact we have only lost once in our last five visits to Chelsea.

2. Kevin Davies isn’t too disappointed that his rumoured January move to Chelsea never materialised. In fact, he thought it was as funny as everyone else did.

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Reebok Round-Up (10.04.09)

Friday, April 10th, 2009 | BWFC News, BWFC People, Blerim Dzemaili, Fabrice Muamba, Gary Megson, Kevin Davies, Mark Davies, Ricardo Gardner | No Comments

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

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Bolton Wanderers 4-1 Middlesbrough: What the papers say

Tuesday, April 7th, 2009 | BWFC News, BWFC People, Gary Megson, Kevin Davies, Ricardo Gardner | No Comments

How the national press reported Bolton’s emphatic win over Middlesbrough

The Guardian says that Middlesbrough committed suicide before completely laying in to Gareth Southgate and his side for their woeful defending. It’s not until paragraph 10 that Bolton get any credit for Ricardo Gardner’s one “well-worked goal.” Even the Bolton fan who gave his verdict in the Observer thought that the result flattered the Wanderers.

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Bolton Wanderers 4-1 Middlesbrough: The fans’ view

Monday, April 6th, 2009 | BWFC News, BWFC People, Chris Basham, Danny Shittu, Ebi Smolarek, Fabrice Muamba, Gary Megson, Gavin McCann, Johan Elmander, Kevin Nolan, Ricardo Gardner | 1 Comment

The Bolton Wanderers match report you won’t read in the papers (or see on Match of the Day)

Here’s what the various Bolton Wanderers message boards made of the 4-1 thrashing of Middlesbrough on Saturday…

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Bolton Wanderers 4-1 Middlesbrough: Video highlights

Saturday, April 4th, 2009 | BWFC Goals, BWFC People, Gary Cahill, Kevin Davies | No Comments

For those who can’t wait for Match of the Day

Here are the first-half goals from Bolton’s brilliant 4-1 win over Middlesbrough today, Kevin Davies and Gary Cahill both getting on the scoresheet. Hopefully get the second-half goals up soon too…

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12 things you (probably don’t) need to know about Bolton v Middlesbrough

Saturday, April 4th, 2009 | Andy O'Brien, BWFC News, BWFC People, Gary Megson, Kevin Davies, Mark Davies | No Comments

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Your guide to all the predictions and Mystic Meggery ahead of Bolton Wanderers v Middlesbrough

Reasons to be cheerful
1. Middlesbrough have far more injury concerns – Tuncay, Adam Johnson, Robert Huth to name a few – than Bolton, although Andy O’Brien will be back in contention for a place, so…

2. Boro are currently 19th in the Premier League, largely because they have failed to score in 10 of their last 13 league games.

3. Gareth Southgate’s men suffered a demoralising defeat at Stoke last time out.

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Bolton v Middlesbrough: Here’s one we made earlier

Friday, April 3rd, 2009 | BWFC Goals, BWFC People, Gretar Steinsson, Johan Elmander, Matt Taylor | No Comments

Relive the Wanderers 3-1 victory over Boro from earlier this season

Bolton travelled to the Riverside Stadium back in November and recorded their best away win of the season to date (an even better one was to follow at Sunderland a week later).

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Is this the future of football management?

Monday, March 30th, 2009 | BWFC News, BWFC People, Gary Megson | No Comments

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Gareth Southgate (allegedly) asks Twitter followers to pick his team to play Bolton

With only one win in the league in 2009, Middlesbrough are in all kinds of trouble as they try to stay in the Premier League.

And it appears their manager, Gareth Southgate, is willing to try anything as he attempts to avoid relegation with Boro.

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Is this a good enough reason to keep Gary Megson?

Sunday, February 15th, 2009 | BWFC News, BWFC People, Gary Megson, Phil Gartside, Roy McFarland, Sammy Lee | No Comments

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How Alex Ferguson almost changed my mind about the Bolton manager

I’m keen for my view that Gary Megson should be sacked at the end of the season, even if we do stay up, to be proven wrong. Mainly because I want to see my team win and get behind them.

As well as asking my readers for reasons why I’m wrong, I’ve also been actively searching for excuses to change my mind. Here’s the nearest I came last week…

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