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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).
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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