Bolton Wanderers Hall of Fame #1: Alan Stubbs

Wednesday August 20th, 2008

Stubbs was a Bolton legend despite the lack of internet evidence

The retirement of Wanderers legend Alan Stubbs today made this the perfect time to make him the first entrant in to Manny Road’s Bolton Wanderers Hall of Fame.

The first thing I did when I found out he’s hanging up his boots was search for my favourite Stubbs moment – his winning goal against Aston Villa in that memorable FA Cup run of 1994.

Sadly, it was nowhere to be seen on You Tube. Worse still, because Stubbs’ Bolton career came just before the internet age, searching for him on the web leaves you wondering if he ever played for the Whites at all: no You Tube videos, no Flickr photos; even a Google image search brings up page after page of Stubbs in action for Celtic, Everton and Derby County, but virtually nothing of him playing for the Wanderers.

His Wikipedia page does not have a section dedicated to his time at Bolton, instead it’s included under ‘Early Career’.

So if anyone’s got any old Stubbs footage or photos – especially from that Villa game – let’s get them up on the web and redress the balance a little.

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