Recommended reading (10.10.08): The credit crunch, the chaplain and Nat Lofthouse on the silver screen

Friday October 10th, 2008

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

- The doom and gloom of the credit crunch could soon come to the Premier League says the Mirror, although in comparison to others, Bolton’s debts appear fairly average.

_ Via a discussion on the BBC’s 606 message board I found a really old (11 years to be precise) report from the This Is Lancashire website (a forerunner of the current Bolton News site) about an aborted attempt to make a film version of the excellent book Wartime Wanderers, which detailed the heroics of Bolton’s players on the front line during World War II.

I’ve read the book but never realised there had once been a plan to bring it to the silver screen. Mind you, after seeing the potential cast, perhaps it was for the best. Here’s the idiot they wanted to play Nat Lofthouse…

- More fascinating behind-the-scenes insight from the official BWFC website, which this week features an exclusive interview with the, er, club chaplain. This news comes via Vital Bolton Wanderers (I can rarely bring myself to visit the awful bwfc.co.uk).

- And finally… some interesting facts and figures to dispel many of the myths and cliches that have infected modern day football reports and commentaries, courtesy of The Independent.

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