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The Championship promotion race is really starting to hot up, and temperatures will be soaring as the two form sides of the division, sitting in sixth and eighth respectively, face off in the battle for the all important final playoff place tomorrow. This surely has got to be the... Read More

Is it better to play well and loose in the final stages or play rubbish and score the winner just before the curtain falls? Given our league position, the three points are all that mattered but in terms of enjoyment, I found more to relish in the defeat against Everton than I did... Read More

Bolton Wanderers supporters are in need of a lift. There’s an air of forbearance around the Reebok; a sense of the same old same old. The first game of Dougie Freedman’s reign, the stirring, Ngog inspired comeback against Cardiff, suggested a boost was imminent. The optimism... Read More

At the start of the season, when the rest of the team was struggling to remember how to play football, Chris Eagles was our stand-out player.  He won Bolton’s fan’s player of the month 3 times in a row.  He was firing in free kicks, beating defenders and generally... Read More

Much water has flown under the bridge since I lived in what I still think of as my home town. Many of you that read these reports are in the same boat. I don’t know about you, but I remember Boltonians as kind, generous, welcoming and generally happy people. Like the Boy Scouts,... Read More

Well this was different. Leaving home at two o’clock, sitting among the vocal element, or rather, standing – apparently nobody sits at an away game – and being home in time to watch the six o’clock news. That said, it was another draw and many aspects of the game were all too... Read More

For the second home game in succession I was brimming with anticipation. Despite the disappointment against Barnsley, the undeserved yet heart-warming, last second draw at Brighton and what was reported as the performance of the season against Blackburn, meant that hope was, once... Read More

What a game it was last night. On the Social Networks, before the game, quite a few fans were pretty pessimistic about what the end result was going to be, or even so the kind of performance the travelling fans were going to have to endure. How wrong they were. The starting 11... Read More

The news that Bolton had appointed Dougie Freedman as the new manager was somewhat underwhelming. Ambivalence, at best, seemed to be the general response. I knew little about him and research on his career to date did nothing to generate enthusiasm. Yes, I wanted a young manager... Read More

Lennie Lawrence has finally made his move to the Reebok Stadium, as announced yesterday. However, let us today turn to some simple facts. Some interesting points Freedman brought up this week were: [box]Owen’s a good man but the ideas he has as a coach and manager are different... Read More