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A tribute to Gary Megson

Thursday, December 31st, 2009 | BWFC News, BWFC People, Gary Megson | 1 Comment

The morning after the night before…

With the celebratory hangover now slowly healing, Manny Road would like to pay this tribute to former Bolton Wanderers manager (how good does that feel?) Gary Megson…

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Alex Ferguson doesn’t give a toss about Gary Megson

Tuesday, October 20th, 2009 | BWFC News, BWFC People, Gary Megson | No Comments

Alex Ferguson goes in to hiding after hearing Gary Megson thinks theyre mates now. Pic from tpower1978

Alex Ferguson goes in to hiding after hearing Gary Megson thinks they're mates now. Pic from tpower1978

The Bolton News falls for the United boss’ mind games

I Twittered last night about the appalling levels of hypocrisy on Five Live Sport, who went seamlessly from talking about how out of order football fans are for abusing players to then justifying Alex Ferguson’s abuse of referee Alan Wiley.

But Five Live aren’t the only ones who’ve swallowed Fergie’s spin.

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Bolton Wanderers fans should be seen and not heard

Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009 | BWFC News, BWFC People, Gary Megson, Nicolas Anelka | 5 Comments

Pay your money, site down, shut up and enjoy the one-way ride to mediocrity...

Pay your money, sit down, shut up and enjoy the one-way ride to mediocrity...

Gary Megson’s supporters in the media are totally missing the point

Something’s been puzzling me for a while. Why are the media so keen to criticise Bolton fans for our treatment of Gary Megson?

In some of my previous posts I’ve suggested that it’s caused by people who have no emotional (and therefore irrational) attachment to the club finding it impossible to fully understand how Megson has undermined the spirit that has been slowly built over the last 15-20 years.

But after reading some of the reports of the latest Megson hate-in, against Stoke at the Reebok on Saturday, I’ve come up with another theory.

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Sex, pies and videotape… but not much Bolton Wanderers

Wednesday, August 19th, 2009 | BWFC News, BWFC People, Gary Megson, Gavin McCann, Tony Kelly | 5 Comments

Gary Megson unveils his latest signing (vieux bandit, some rights reserved)

Gary Megson unveils his latest signing (Pic: vieux bandit, some rights reserved)

Let’s play spot the Wanderers… in (extremely unofficial) association with The Bolton News

The Bolton News has had a bit of a redesign recently. Nothing radical, just a few tweaks here and there and some new fonts. One thing that hasn’t changed is the lack of prominence given to the Wanderers in the site’s navigation.

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Children of Bolton, look away now

Tuesday, August 11th, 2009 | BWFC News, BWFC People, Jussi Jaaskelainen | 4 Comments

The Bolton News should be ashamed of itself for condoning such terrible photography

Now this is a picture (from abudardak, some rights reserved)

Now this is a picture (from abudardak, some rights reserved)

Violence is a cancer that has long afflicted football, and sadly we got a glimpse of it again at the weekend when fighting broke out between rival gangs of Wanderers and Hibernian fans following Jussi Jaaskelainen’s testimonial.

Worse still, it appears that as well as their inability to get on swimmingly with each other, football fans are not very good at citizen journalism either.

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Pedro finds another hole in Bolton Wanderers’ season tickets PR

Monday, August 3rd, 2009 | BWFC News, Gareth Moores, Gary Megson | 15 Comments

Pedro gets ready for another trip to the Reebok (from clurr, some rights reserved)

Pedro gets ready for another trip to the Reebok (from clurr, some rights reserved)

Will the Reebok Stadium be a lonely place for BWFC season ticket holders next season?

I wrote over a month ago about the rather vague positive news coming out of the club regarding season ticket sales this summer. The club seemed extremely keen to reassure fans that they wouldn’t be alone at the Reebok next season.

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Sex sells, unless it’s about Bolton Wanderers

Tuesday, July 28th, 2009 | Andy O'Brien, BWFC News, BWFC People, Gary Megson, Paul Robinson, Phil Gartside, Sam Allardyce, Sam Ricketts, Sean Davis, Zat Knight | No Comments

Finally, something to wake Wanderers fans from their summer slumber

Andy OBrien: Better than sex

Andy O'Brien: Better than sex

It’s not often you see the words ‘Bolton Wanderers’ and ’sex’ in the same headline.

In fact, thanks largely to the existence of Gary Megson, it’s not often you see the words ‘Bolton Wanderers’ and anything remotely interesting and exciting or interesting in the same headline.

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Reebok Round-Up (27.01.09)

Tuesday, January 27th, 2009 | Ali Al-Habsi, BWFC News, BWFC People, Fabrice Muamba, Gary Megson, Mark Davies, Sam Allardyce | No Comments

What Manny Road has been reading (and thinking) about Bolton Wanderers

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The Reebok Stadium is (re)named and shamed

Saturday, January 24th, 2009 | BWFC News, BWFC People, Nat Lofthouse | No Comments

Reebok Stadium (1997)

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The Daily Mail uses job losses story to get cheap gags about Bolton Wanderers

The Daily Mail has something of a reputation for scaremongering. Normally it’s about illegal immigrants, benefits “scroungers” or some half-baked scientific research that’s found oxygen may give you cancer.

This week, though, they turned their attention to Bolton Wanderers after Reebok announced they are moving their offices out of the Reebok Stadium.

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The Burning Question: Would you sacrifice a place in the Premier League for a Cup?

Friday, January 9th, 2009 | BWFC People, Tony Kelly | 1 Comment

Closeup of the second Wembley Stadium, one day...
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Is Tony Kelly talking rubbish about ‘concentrating on the league’?

I’ve said before that I think Tony Kelly is doing a good job as Fans’ Liaison Officer. His one downfall, though, continues to be his column in The Bolton News, which is unerringly optimistic and only serves to wind most fans up.

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