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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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The Burning Question: Do referees favour the big four?
Sunday, December 7th, 2008 | BWFC People, Gary Cahill, Jlloyd Samuel | 3 Comments
Are match officials biased towards Manchester United, Chelsea, Liverpool and Arsenal?
Bolton Wanderers have now lost all four matches against the big four teams in the Premier League this season.
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Recommended reading (5.12.08): After the curse of Chelsea cometh the curse of Bolton Wanderers
Friday, December 5th, 2008 | Ali Al-Habsi, BWFC People, Eddie Davies, Gary Megson, Johan Elmander, Jussi Jaaskelainen, Owen Coyle, Phil Gartside, Sam Allardyce | No Comments
What Manny Road has been reading (and thinking) about Bolton Wanderers over the last couple of days
- He may have scored three goals in two games, but Johan Elmander is still the eighth worst summer signing in the Premier League, accoring to the Daily Telegraph.
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Gary Megson’s (mis)interpretation of the Respect campaign
Tuesday, November 18th, 2008 | BWFC People, Fabrice Muamba, Gary Megson | 1 Comment
The Bolton boss appears to be taking it a little too far…
Fair play to Gary Megson for somehow managing to keep a lid on his anger on the two occasions that Rob Styles has worked his magic on us this season (this occurred to me after watching Neil Warnock’s latest undignified rant over the weekend).
But I fear Megson may be taking the FA’s much talked about Respect campaign a little too literally.
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Recommended reading (18.11.08): Capello’s Cahill snub, the curse of Chelsea and more Megsonisms
Tuesday, November 18th, 2008 | BWFC People, Gary Cahill, Gary Megson, Sam Allardyce, Sammy Lee | 1 Comment
What Manny Road was reading (and thinking) about Bolton Wanderers yesterday…
- An England squad that included Wolves (yes, that’s Wolves of the Championship) defender Michael Mancienne, who is on loan from Chelsea because he can’t get a game there (what does Gary Cahill have to do to get a call-up, other than playing consistently well in the Premier League every week?).
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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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Bolton Wanderers v Liverpool: The fans’ view
Sunday, November 16th, 2008 | BWFC People, Gary Cahill, Gary Megson, Johan Elmander, Kevin Davies, Matt Taylor, Ricardo Gardner | No Comments
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 discussion forums made of the 2-0 home defeat to Liverpool…
- The performance in the first-half was totally negative. We were dominated in defence, midfield and attack. We are the only team in the Premier League that goes out on to the field with the intention of not winning the game.
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Recommended reading (13.11.08): And today’s special guest is… Rob Styles
Thursday, November 13th, 2008 | BWFC People, Gary Megson, Heidar Helguson, Owen Coyle, Phil Brown, Sammy Lee | 1 Comment
What Manny Road has been reading (and thinking) about Bolton Wanderers today…
- The incredible news that the referee for this weekend’s clash against Liverpool will be… Rob Styles! (I’m sure he’ll be made very welcome).
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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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Recommended reading (24.10.08): Rob Styles (again), the credit crunch (again) and positive thinking Spurs style
Friday, October 24th, 2008 | BWFC People, Phil Gartside | 1 Comment
What Manny Road was reading (and thinking) about Bolton Wanderers yesterday…
- Spurs fans think they’ll go down if they lose to the Wanderers on Sunday (no pressure there then).
- Rob Styles (finally) gets his punishment (not that it’s any help to us now).
- And finally… this report on the impact of the credit crunch on Premier League attendances. It shows Bolton fourth in the table, with attendances 8.3 per cent up on this time last year (which means either the club’s attempts to ‘reconnect with the fans’, as Phil Gartside puts it, are working, or football fans are stupid enough to pay to watch any old crap).
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