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Tuesday, October 6th, 2009 | BWFC News, BWFC People, Gary Megson | 1 Comment
How to interview a Bolton Wanderers fan, courtesy of striatic
Just in case anyone cares what we think…
Following on from my post the other day about the use of silly analogies, I stumbled across another – albeit over a week old – article that shows how generalisations and misrepresentations are being used to bash Bolton Wanderers fans and their dislike of Gary Megson.
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Sky targets Bolton Wanderers fans with new version of ad campaign
Saturday, September 12th, 2009 | BWFC News | 3 Comments
How Sky’s Premier League marketing campaign would look in the real world
We know how you feel about supporting Bolton Wanderers, because we feel the same (Image courtesy of ElPablo)
Sky’s subtle and understated-as-ever marketing campaign for their Premier League coverage this season is a series of TV adverts and posters featuring the line ‘we know how you feel about football, because we feel the same.’
Leaving aside the rather patronising assumption that all football fans are replica-shirt wearing, 606-calling halfwits (OK, a lot are), the other problem with these ads is that they’re too general, aimed at fans of every club without thought for the fundamental differences in the emotional make-up of fans of clubs as diverse as, let’s say, Bolton and Manchester United.
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Memo to the national press: Sam Allardyce does not manage Bolton Wanderers
Wednesday, July 29th, 2009 | BWFC News, BWFC People, Gary Megson, Sam Allardyce | 1 Comment
Another season, and yet more lazy journalists getting the basics wrong
Image from 101 Great Goals
I lost count of the number of times the press made reference to Sam Allardyce being manager of Bolton Wandererers last season.
After Big Sam returned to management in the north-west with Blackburn midway through last season, a succession of newspaper articles and – if memory serves – over-excitable Sky Sports pundits, lazily got Bolton mixed up with their Lancashire rivals.
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Wanderers window shopping dispatch #4: Five questions that need answering
Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009 | Ariza Makukula, BWFC News, BWFC People, Gary Megson, Heidar Helguson, Kevin Davies, Kevin Nolan, Mark Davies, Phil Gartside, Sebastien Puygrenier | 1 Comment
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The final round of ins, outs and shaking it all abouts at Bolton Wanderers this January
Ins
With the three ins this year – Davies, Sebastien Puygrenier and Ariza Makukula – already in the bag, Bolton barely got a mention on Sky Sports News’ overly-dramatic transfer deadline day coverage (was the countdown of the last 10 seconds, accompanied by pictures from Big Ben, really necessary, especially as the Premier League had extended the deadline due to the bad weather?).
Gary Megson confirmed after the Spurs game that he was targetting two more signings before the window shut at 5pm yesterday, so the Wanderers failure to bring in any more new players has to be seen as leaving Megson short of what he feels he needs to keep us in the Premier League.
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The Burning Question: Does Nicolas Anelka deserve a good reception from Bolton fans?
Friday, December 5th, 2008 | Chris Evans, Gary Megson | 3 Comments
Wanderers’ assistant manager has called for calm ahead of Chelsea’s visit, but was it really necessary?
What started out as a question buried away at the end of a long interview with Chris Evans, Gary Megson’s assistant, on bwfc.co.uk, has ended up becoming the defining narrative in the build-up to Chelsea’s visit this weekend.
Will Bolton Wanderers fans boo Nicolas Anelka?
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Recommended reading (3.12.08): Kevin Nolan… literally the most confusing interviews ever
Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008 | BWFC People, Gary Megson, Johan Elmander, Kevin Nolan, Nicky Hunt, Phil Gartside | No Comments
What Manny Road has been reading (and thinking) about Bolton Wanderers today…
- Kevin Nolan has ‘quite literally been taking a leaf out of Roy Keane’s book,’ according to The Bolton News. Apparently he’s been reading up on the Sunderland manager (but if he really was ‘quite literally taking a leaf out of Keane’s book’, wouldn’t there be some kind of leaf extraction involved in the process? Or am I taking the phrase ‘quite literally’ a little too literally?).
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Recommended reading (5.11.08): It’s official… Bolton Wanderers are rubbish. And so are Phil Gartside’s ideas
Wednesday, November 5th, 2008 | BWFC People, El-Hadji Diouf, Gary Megson, Gretar Steinsson, Jlloyd Samuel, Nicky Hunt, Owen Coyle, Phil Gartside | No Comments
What Manny Road has been reading (and thinking) about Bolton Wanderers today…
- Some stats from Martin Tyler on Sky Sports suggesting Bolton have been rubbish in derbies over the last year or so (I think he’ll find Bolton have been rubbish in most matches over the last 12 months, derbies or not).
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Recommended reading (15.10.08): The White Horse final and Gary Megson – boredom fighter
Tuesday, October 14th, 2008 | Ali Al-Habsi, BWFC People, David Jack, Ebi Smolarek, Gary Megson, Johan Elmander | No Comments
What Manny Road has been reading (and thinking) about Bolton Wanderers over the last few days…
- The Daily Telegraph’s Kevin Garside using the White Horse final of 1923 and Bolton’s hero from that day, David Jack, to demonstrate why Ashley Cole deserved every boo he got at Wembley the other day.
- The badly photoshopped picture in this call to arms on the official BWFC website, plus the unfortunate headline on this official website story, which says Gary Megson is ‘Guarding Against Monotony’ (he should certainly know what it looks like).
- Another unfortunate headline, this time on a Sky Sports story about Johan Elmander, who declares: ‘I need speed’ (perhaps Ebi Smolarek could have a word with his mates from Holland).
- Various transfer rumours about Jimmy Bullard, Ali Al-Habsi, Julio Cruz and Fabian Delph (funny how these things come out of the woodwork during international week, when there’s nothing else to write about, isn’t it?).
- And finally… listening to some Bolton Wanderers chants on this website, and wondering what the point of this site is and where they got the recordings from (well, there’s nothing better to during international week is there?).
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Bolton Wanderers v West Brom: The fans’ view
Sunday, August 31st, 2008 | BWFC People, Danny Shittu, Ebi Smolarek, El-Hadji Diouf, Fabrice Muamba, Gary Megson, Gavin McCann, Joey O'Brien, Johan Elmander, Jussi Jaaskelainen, Kevin Nolan, Mustapha Riga, Nicolas Anelka, Ricardo Gardner | 2 Comments
The Bolton Wanderers match report you won’t see in the papers (or on Match of the Day)…
Here’s what the Bolton Wanderers message boards made of the 0-0 home draw with West Bromwich Albion…
- Four points from three games represents a terrible start to the season, especially given the standard of the opposition.
- Gary Megson was a coward for blaming the players’ ‘one-dimensional approach’ on Sky Sports, when surely he’s the one telling them to play like that. Does anyone still have faith in Bolton’s so-called manager? Megson is the sole reason why 8,000 Bolton Wanderers fans continue to stay away from the Reebok Stadium.
- With better finishing West Brom would have won at a canter. Bolton were embarrassed by their superior passing, just like we were by Northampton. In fact, we were absolutely dismal, but the referee didn’t help by being totally inconsistent.
- A midfield of Kevin Nolan, Gavin McCann, Joey O’Brien and Fabrice Muamba is far too negative and needs changing quickly if we’re going to have any chance of staying up. McCann is particularly awful, so bad in fact that some are considering suspending their support for the club until he is out of the team.
- We have no attacking flair. Mustapha Riga was only bought to appease fans over the sale of El-Hadji Diouf and he’ll never get enough of a look-in to make a difference. Riga and Ricardo Gardner were supposed to give width but we didn’t give them the ball. We were also completely ineffective up front.
- At the end of the day, we get what we deserve because the board have still not full reinvested the money we got from the sale of Nicolas Anelka.
- Still, the good news is that Bolton are bound to get at least 0 points from their next four games.
Or, alternatively…
- The negative comments concentrate too much on the result and not enough on the performance. Jussi Jaaskelainen, Riga, Gardner and Danny Shittu all played really well, and the second-half performance in particular really wasn’t that bad.
- We’ll be alright once we get Johan Elmander back, especially once he teams up with new signing Ebi Smolarek.
And finally…
- Given the amount of action and controversy in the game, the BBC’s coverage on Match of the Day was an insult (again). It’s time Bolton Wanderers fans boycotted Match of the Day.
What did you think? Let us know using the comment box below…
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The Bolton Wanderers News Feed: About as reliable as Gerald Cid
Thursday, August 21st, 2008 | BWFC People, Gerald Cid | 1 Comment
Sorry… now there’s a word you don’t hear very often in football (or journalism)
Regular visitors will have noticed that the BWFC News Feed at the top of the right-hand side bar regularly fails to work. Instead of bringing you the latest Bolton Wanderers headlines from around the web, it displays a rather irritating error message.
As I seem to spend half my time on this blog berating other website’s shortcomings when it comes to covering Bolton Wanderers, I thought I should probably put my hands up on this one.
You don’t often see this kind of honesty in football (or journalism, for that matter), but here it is… I screwed up. The BWFC News Feed is currently about as useful as Gerald Cid.
I’m in the process of trying one or two things out to see if I can identify the problem, so hopefully its Bolton Wanderers career won’t be consigned to history quite as quickly as Cid’s was. I would thank you for your patience in these times of adversity, but you’re Bolton Wanderers fans so I know you’ve had plenty of practice at it.
For those who haven’t seen the BWFC News Feed in action, it’s an RSS Feed that aggregates Bolton Wanderers headlines from five sources: The Bolton News, Manchester Evening News, Sky Sports, The BBC and The Guardian. I built it using Yahoo Pipes and it’s openly available for anyone to add to their own website, feed aggregator or favourites toolbar here.
Another technical issue one or two people have pointed out is the that the whole right-hand side bar goes to the bottom of the page when this blog is viewed in Internet Explorer 6. This is caused by the particular Word Press design template I’m using, which doesn’t get on too well with IE6.
To fix this I could spend a couple of days redesigning the whole blog, but it took me long enough to settle on the current look and to be honest I’ve become rather attached to it. Instead I’m going to encourage anyone who is still using IE6 to browse the internet do themselves a massive favour by downloading Firefox on to their computers. It’ll take care of all your web browsing needs and I promise you’ll never go back to IE.
At the very least you should consider upgrading to IE7, if only to save me a whole load of work!
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