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What Gary Megson could learn from Rafa Benitez and Martin O’Neill
Tuesday, January 13th, 2009 | BWFC People, Chris Basham, Gary Megson, Sam Allardyce | 3 Comments
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The Bolton Wanderers manager needs to start playing a few mind games
Whether it’s Middlesbrough’s impressive youth set up or Liverpool’s title credentials, Gary Megson has made a habit of lavishing praise on the Wanderers’ opponents this season.
Do Bolton Wanderers care about pre-season friendlies?
Saturday, August 2nd, 2008 | Gary Megson | No Comments
Gary Megson’s not so sure and neither is the club’s official website
Gary Megson’s mantra during this pre-season has been that it’s not the winning that counts, it’s about ‘getting games under our belts’. So either he doesn’t care about friendlies or he’s covering himself for when it goes tits up, as it did in the first two pre-season games against Rochdale and Macclesfield Town when the Whites failed to either win or score.
More worrying though is the official club website’s indifference to these matches. Fans on the Rivals Bolton Wanderers forum first complained about bwfc.co.uk’s lack of coverage of these games during the Macclesfield match, when they were slow off the mark with team news and score updates.
And it appears they were up to their old tricks again last night during the 5-0 win over Doncaster Rovers (something you’d might think they’d want to celebrate), with fans on Rivals again complaining that they still hadn’t updated the half-time score 15 minutes after the match had ended.
So it’s not just the Bolton News who are slow off the mark then…
The Ivan Campo Appreciation Society: Exhibit A
Sunday, July 27th, 2008 | BWFC People, Fabrice Muamba, Franck Passi, Ivan Campo, Ivan Campo Appreciation Society | No Comments
In loving memory of Bolton Wanderers legend Ivan Campo
I keep reading that Fabrice Muamba, the Wanderers’ £5 million summer signing from Birmingham City, is the new Ivan Campo.
I’d like to dispel this theory before he’s even kicked a ball (actually he kicked a ball at Rochdale the other night, but pre-season friendlies against League 2 teams don’t count – especially ones that end 0-0).
To do this I’ve set up The Ivan Campo Appreciation Society, whose aim is to prove that being ‘the next Ivan Campo’ isn’t just about playing in the holding role in front of the back four. There’s much more to Ivan Campo’s legendary status than that…
Exhibit A: Campo writes two heart-felt letters to Wanderers fans
Thanks to the mainstream media’s obsession with over-cooked transfer gossip and the tedious ramblings of Gary Megson, I almost completely missed this story. I discovered it earlier today thanks to fans on the Bolton Wanderers Mad forum.
It all started back in June when Campo used his slot as a guest columnist on Guillem Balague’s website to write an open letter to all Bolton Wanderers fans. It started thus…
I’m writing you this open letter because I never had the chance to say farewell to you all following my last match at the Reebok. I really want to say thank you for all the great years that you’ve given me: and believe me, I feel you gave them to me, rather than I to you. It’s been a marvellous experience and I am going to miss the build up to the games when my hands would get clammy at the prospect of putting in a good display and a great afternoon’s football for you all.
Eighteen paragraphs later it ended with…
My Bolton friends, you must know that you will always be with me and have a special place deep in my heart.
Tear-jerking indeed. But it didn’t stop there. Campo’s letter gained an unprecedented response from grateful Wanderers fans, and in return Campo wrote another letter three days ago, which ended…
I consider myself privileged to have had the opportunity to have represented you and – as I can see from your letters – to have helped bring as much joy to you as you have given to me.
In an era when we’re used to hearing players spout the same old ‘game of two halves’, ‘take each game as it comes’, ‘all credit to Team X they never laid down’ bollocks, how refreshing to see a player address the people that have paid his wages for the last four years with genuine appreciation and respect.
P.S. Fabrice, I hope that in years to come this blog finds reason to start an appreciation society for you. Until then, please just concentrate on not being the next Franck Passi.
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