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Jlloyd likes to talk, but has he done the math?
Wednesday, February 18th, 2009 | BWFC News, BWFC People, Jlloyd Samuel | No Comments
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Jlloyd Samuel feels nice and rested… but will it do him any good against West Ham this weekend?
Jlloyd Samuel seems to have become Bolton Wanderers’ official spokesman during this international/FA Cup fallow period. A whole host of Samuel-based stories – not all of them especially fascinating, it has to be said – have kept the Wanderers news pages churning out copy during this terminally-slow-news couple of weeks.
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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
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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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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
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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).
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Bolton Wanderers’ new year’s resolutions
Friday, January 2nd, 2009 | BWFC News, BWFC People, Danny Shittu, Fabrice Muamba, Gary Megson, Gavin McCann, Grzegorz Rasiak, Joey O'Brien, Kevin Nolan | No Comments
10 things Gary Megson and co should avoid in 2009
Over the last week or so I’ve been counting down my favourite 10 goals, games and players of 2008. You can see the results here.
But in the interests of fairness and balance I thought it only right to reflect on some of the low points of 2008 too and use them as new year’s resolutions for 2009…
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Bolton Wanderers 0-1 Wigan Athletic: The fans’ view
Monday, December 29th, 2008 | Andy O'Brien, BWFC People, Danny Shittu, Gary Megson, Johan Elmander, Kevin Davies, Kevin Nolan | 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 1-0 home defeat to Wigan:
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Lucky number seven gives Gary Megson a chance of redemption
Sunday, November 30th, 2008 | BWFC People, Gary Megson, Phil Gartside, Sam Allardyce | 1 Comment
Why the Bolton Wanderers manager must take the FA Cup seriously this season
The draw for the third round of the FA Cup takes place today at 2.15pm. Wanderers have been given the lucky number seven in the draw.
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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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Desert Island Goals: John McGinlay, Jason McAteer and Andy Walker
Saturday, September 20th, 2008 | Andy Walker, BWFC People, Gary Megson, Jason McAteer, John McGinlay | No Comments
Great goals from Bolton Wanderers history…
It’s sometimes difficult to explain why so many Bolton fans see the early to mid-nineties as the golden age, even though the last few years have – in theory – been even more successful.
I think part of the romance of that era was the idea of taking on the world and conquering it against all the odds. There was an ‘anything is possible’ attitude at that time that was epitomised by those great FA Cup performances against Liverpool, Everton, Aston Villa and this one in 1994, when goals from John McGinlay, Jason McAteer and Andy Walker helped knock out the holders Arsenal.
Seven and a bit years in to our current Premier League life, the novelty has definitely worn off. Then the Uefa Cup came along to reinvigorate us, but Gary Megson didn’t share our dreams. His team selection in Lisbon was more ‘anything is impossible’.
Ahead of what’s likely to be another 10-men behind-the-ball, attack-at-your-peril performance from Megson’s Bolton Wanderers against Arsenal this afternoon, now seemed like a good time to remember the days when we used to scare the life out of big teams with energetic, attacking football.
The club in its current incarnation was built on the back of nights like this. So when Megson complains about supporters getting on his and the team’s back, he should know that it’s not necessarily just about results, or even performances. It’s about the life and the optimism being sucked out of the club by a manager who has failed to understand what Bolton Wanderers is all about.
We don’t win European Cups and Premier League titles, and we don’t expect to. So please Gary, give us something else to get excited about.
These were the days…
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Gary Megson has invisible gun held to his head…
Tuesday, August 26th, 2008 | BWFC People, Gary Megson | 2 Comments
Bolton Wanderers’ Lisbon surrender explained
There was one interesting line in The Bolton News’ preview of the Carling Cup tie against Northampton. Amongst the usual run-of-the-mill quotes about Gary Megson ’setting his sights on glory’, the paper’s reporter wrote:
Megson was forced to field a weakened team in the UEFA Cup last season as Wanderers battled for their Premier League lives at home.
That’s funny, I don’t remember anyone holding a gun to Megson’s head that night at Sporting Lisbon. Who exactly was doing this ‘forcing’? It certainly wasn’t the Bolton Wanderers fans who paid good money to watch their team surrender their shot at European glory.
Apparently Megson is ’still haunted’ by what happened in Lisbon… he’s not the only one!
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Bolton Wanderers will be relegated this season… or maybe not
Friday, August 8th, 2008 | BWFC People, Gary Megson, Johan Elmander | 2 Comments
The Guardian’s Bolton Wanderers season preview couldn’t be more inconclusive if it tried…
In The Guardian’s season preview for Bolton Wanderers, author Scott Murray writes:
Megson’s men will do enough to ensure a successful campaign – given that success round these parts is defined solely by survival.
Pretty conclusive you might think, except that the same article also predicts the Wanderers will finish 18th. Apparently this is because that’s taken from an average of all the paper’s hacks’ predictions… so why not get one of the doom-mongers to write the piece then? At least one of them could have justified the prediction.
The description of Johan Elmander’s prospects in the Premier League is just as useless:
His two seasons at Toulouse were generally regarded a success – he reached double figures in both campaigns and was a firm crowd favourite – but plenty of players have shone in Ligue 1 only to come unstuck in England. It could go either way.
Full marks to Murray, though, for sticking the boot in to Gary Megson’s team selection against Sporting Lisbon in the Uefa Cup last season.
European qualification, certainly, is way beyond the reach of Megson’s side, but then nobody wants to clutter up next season’s schedule with glory fixtures, do they?
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