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Megson future in doubt as Bolton look to Nigeria Nigerian under-23 coach Samson Siasia is thought to be in the frame to take over from Gary Megson Independent.co.uk Web By Jason Burt Tuesday, 8 April 2008 Demotion to the Championship appears an inevitability for Bolton, who were beaten 4-0 to Aston Villa on Saturday and are four points from safety with just five league games remaining, three of which are away from home. The club has been examining how it can overhaul its management structure and is believed to be keen to adopt a European-style system of a head coach to work alongside a more experienced director of football. If the change is made then it would mean that Megson, despite signing a two-and-a-half year contract only last October, when he replaced Sammy Lee after just 10 games in charge, would be asked to leave. So far Bolton have yet to identify who they want as their director of football, although they are considering candidates with experience of managing in the top flight. That's because it's thought they are prepared to take a gamble on the man who could coach the first-team. One candidate is believed to be Samson Siasia who is currently the coach of the Nigerian under-23 team which is competing in this summer's Olympics and is regarded as one of the favourites for the gold medal. Its squad includes the Marseilles' defender Taye Taiwo and Everton striker Victor Anichebe. Employing Siasia would be a huge gamble for Bolton as the 40-year-old, a former striker who won a league title while in France with Nantes and played and scored for Nigeria in the 1994 World Cup, has no experience of English football. He is, however, highly rated and has already been earmarked to succeed Berti Vogts, who recently departed as coach of the Nigerian national team. Siasia also spent some time monitoring the work of Jose Mourinho while he was Chelsea manager and is believed to have impressed the Portuguese. He is not the only coach under consideration by Bolton although they are also aware that he played a crucial role in the development of a crop of young Nigerian players and are keen to tap into his expertise. With just one victory in 12 matches since the departure of Nicolas Anelka to Chelsea for ?15m it appears inevitable that Bolton will be relegated. Megson took over with the club at the foot of the table and after an encouraging start, which included a home win over Manchester United and qualification for the last 16 of the Uefa Cup, the season has fallen away. The 48-year-old arrived from Leicester City where he had been manager for just six weeks and has had a varied career at West Brom, Norwich, Blackpool, Stoke, Stockport and Nottingham Forest. He was a surprise choice at Bolton where his appointment was not universally greeted. Recently there have also been episodes of player discontent. Abdoulaye Meite refused to play the second half of the defeat at Old Trafford, Ivan Campo petulantly marched down the tunnel following his substitution against Manchester City and El-Hadji Diouf, who is under contract to 2009, claimed he will quit the club at the end of the season.

Nolan laments Big Sam's departure By Marc Higginson WANDERERS skipper Kevin Nolan admits the departure of Sam Allardyce is one of the main reasons for the Whites' current predicament. It is looking bleak for Wanderers, with relegation a distinct possibility for the club after a torrid run of form which has seen Gary Megson's side take just one point from their last seven Premier League games. The club have been on a downward spiral ever since Allarydce left 12 months ago, and Nolan admits the players miss the input of a man who brought the team unparalleled success. "A lot of it has come down to change," said Nolan. "I think a lot of it was down to the fact that Sam went and we had a new manager and several changes in personnel." Full story in Tuesday's The Bolton News.

Your not alone mate, youve more or less summed up how I and many fellow fans feel I just hope by us going down it will be enough to shake Mssrs Megson & Gartside off

Megson and the players should hang their heads in shame !!

Megson's job is safe By Gordon Sharrock GARY Megson will not be sacked if Wanderers are relegated from the Premier League. The Whites are facing the prospect of dropping out of the top flight after taking just one point from their last seven games. But, even if they do go down, the 48-year-old manager will be told his job is safe. There have been no public votes of confidence, nor will there be, but reliable sources suggest the Wanderers hierarchy will keep faith with the man they appointed last October, when the club was bottom of the table with just five points from 10 games. Megson's brief, when he succeeded Sammy Lee to become the third manager at the Reebok in six months, was to keep the team in the Premiership. But Wanderers' owner, Eddie Davies, and chairman, Phil Gartside, believed then that they had appointed a man who, should the worst come to the worst, had the qualities to take them back up again. They still believe that and if, as seems increasingly likely, their seven-season Premiership run ends in May, they will charge Megson with the task of winning promotion at the first attempt, as he did with West Brom in 2004. Read the full story in The Bolton News on Monday.

Another win tonight for Browny,.......level on points now with WBA Colchester 1-3 Hull Hull City maintained their promotion push by beating 10-man Colchester. U's defender Phil Ifil was shown a straight red card on 16 minutes for a trip on Hull striker Fraizer Campbell. And Campbell took advantage of a fumble by U's goalkeeper Dean Gerken to put the Tigers ahead before meeting Henrik Pedersen's cross to make it 2-0. Kevin Lisbie replied for the home side with a sweet finish from the edge of the area but Caleb Folan ran clear late on to seal victory for Hull. 1 Stoke 39 11 5 3 32 23 7 8 5 29 26 12 67 2 Bristol City 39 11 6 3 28 19 7 7 5 18 25 2 67 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3 Watford 38 7 7 5 24 22 10 6 3 33 21 14 64 4 West Brom 37 11 6 3 45 22 7 2 8 28 25 26 62 5 Hull 39 11 6 3 37 17 6 5 8 17 24 13 62 6 Plymouth 39 8 7 4 30 17 8 3 9 21 23 11 58 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7 Crystal Palace 39 7 8 5 24 23 7 7 5 20 14 7 57 8 Wolverhampton 38 9 4 5 23 20 6 8 6 18 20 1 57 9 Ipswich 38 13 5 1 40 12 2 6 11 16 36 8 56 10 Charlton 39 8 5 6 30 23 7 6 7 23 24 6 56 11 Burnley 39 6 8 6 25 25 8 5 6 27 27 0 55 12 QPR 39 9 5 6 29 23 4 7 8 24 32 -2 51 13 Sheff Utd 38 7 7 5 23 21 5 7 7 18 20 0 50 14 Cardiff 37 8 3 7 22 19 4 10 5 22 24 1 49 15 Blackpool 39 7 10 3 31 22 4 5 10 22 30 1 48 16 Preston 39 9 4 6 21 14 4 4 12 17 29 -5 47 17 Barnsley 38 10 7 2 31 21 1 6 12 11 33 -12 46 18 Norwich 39 7 6 6 19 19 5 4 11 16 29 -13 46 19 Southampton 39 7 4 8 21 24 4 8 8 28 42 -17 45 20 Leicester 39 6 6 7 20 13 4 8 8 18 23 2 44 21 Coventry 38 7 7 6 20 22 5 1 12 19 30 -13 44 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 22 Sheff Wed 37 8 1 9 20 19 4 6 9 18 24 -5 43 23 Scunthorpe 39 6 6 7 23 25 3 5 12 14 33 -21 38 24 Colchester 39 3 8 9 28 35 3 7 9 23 32 -16 33

DAILY MAIL Why no tears will be shed if Bolton go down 21:00pm 17th March 2008 Suicide is defined as a permanent solution to a temporary problem. I hope Bolton Wanderers learn that lesson the hard way this season, because their demise would be a mercy killing for us all. Football should be about glory and honour. It should be about winning, pride and entertainment, inspiring a community and striving for accomplishments that will stand the test of time. But when Bolton, a club who have never scaled the heights of achievement or affection in the modern era, were a few steps from the summit of European success, when they had the chance to do something truly special for their fans for the first time in 50 years, they looked down from their giddy perch ? and jumped. Rather than send his men out to perform as if their lives depended on it, manager Gary Megson took the decision to pull the plug on their adventure. A temporary problem that should have been a magnificent challenge became a justification for assisted suicide. What is the point of Bolton when they behave like this? The club had a genuine chance of seizing a place in the last eight of the UEFA Cup against Sporting Lisbon. But Megson's priorities were so skewed he arrived in Portugal without 12 regular first-team players. He even left assistant manager Archie Knox and physiotherapist Andy Barr behind at the training ground, which was an extraordinary message to send to his squad. Needless to say, Bolton met their predictable end with open arms. The excuse was they had important business at home three days later against Wigan. Megson weighed up the prospect of writing the club's name alongside previous UEFA winners like Juventus, Bayern Munich, Inter Milan, Barcelona and Real Madrid and decided it was nothing when compared to the practicalities of scrapping for Premier League cash. So what if a decidedly average Sporting were there for the taking. Cowardice, pragmatism or plain stupidity told Megson it was better to kop out. But why battle for an entire season to claim a place in Europe if you are going to throw that opportunity away at the first sign of difficulty? Why fight for magnificent results against Atletico Madrid and Bayern Munich if you are going to chuck in the towel a few days later? It was a lousy call and a shameful dereliction of everything a football club should stand for. Most of all, it was an insult to all the fans who had paid good money to make that trip to Lisbon, as well as the journeys that preceded it. After this slap in the face, many won't make the same mistake next time. Not that there is likely to be a next time. Bolton, complete with their supposedly fresh and rested personnel, lost against a Wigan side reduced to 10 men for a full 85 minutes and look closer to relegation than ever. So much for that mini-break. Yet they could have jogged out on to Wigan's ploughed field having earned themselves a place alongside Fiorentina, PSV, Rangers and Bayern Munich in the last eight of the UEFA Cup. The considerable morale boost of European victory might have helped spark a move away from danger at the foot of the table. Instead, Megson effectively told his players they were incapable of playing two games in such a short space of time and that they were not good enough to bother about Europe either. With this endorsement ringing in their ears Bolton went out and promptly proved it. They are not alone, of course. Reading were equally foolish in treating the FA Cup with contempt earlier this season and, incredibly, there are rumblings from within West Bromwich Albion that their Wembley semi-final date is now proving a 'distraction' from the promotion hunt. Well thank God for distractions. Coventry City fans still regale one another with talk of their FA Cup Final 'distraction' in 1987. Fans of old Wimbledon have been doing the same for the past 20 years. And Ipswich Town distracted themselves to the point of complete bewilderment by collecting the UEFA Cup in 1981. Silly them, eh? But Bolton represent the ugly truth of the game. It is now a chase for money, not glory and some are quite prepared to scrabble around in the gutter for their pennies, throwing aside trinkets like medals because they don't understand their true worth. They seem happy to accept their place and live down to their limitations. If Bolton now follow their selfinflicted European exit by dropping through the relegation trapdoor and landing with an almighty splat a division below, it will be difficult for any neutral to feel sympathy for the club. A Premier League death will be a release.

What sticks in my throat is those harsh words at half time talk didn't make much difference did they!

Hard to argue with that summary............ You would have thought that he could of made that extra man count, all we did second half was pump the ball down the middle Scharner lapped it up. I hope the Diouf & Cahill subtitutions where tactical, if they are injured we are fookin Doomed!

Only two goals conceded in six hours of football........ Both goals shit decisions

Watched 1st 5mins of the game it's now offline

Very poor quality but better than nothing......... http://209.44.113.149/cgi-bin/link.pl?l=c3VUGsmx

If any one knows of a hostelry showing it in the Howfen area? A pm would be greatly appreciated........

Posted by eidurforbwfc ont official site............ http://www.visir.is/article/20080209/IDROTTIR0102/102090188 Translated from Visir.is: No one will keep me out of this team Gretar Steinsson has made a solid start to his Premiership career with Bolton and he intends to keep it that way. Steinsson did not need any period to bed in and since his arrival at the club had gotten great reviews for his performances. ?The football here does not revolved around the same things I am used to. In Holland the main thing was to keep the ball but over here its a lot more running and hassle. The hardest thing to get used to is all the running and I tend to get over the top in that aspect so I?ll need a fews days to recuperate,? said Gretar to Icelandic newspaper Fr?ttabla?i?. ?As soon as I arrived Megson told just to play my game as I used to do in Holland. The reason why Bolton bought me was because of my performances for AZ and they see no point in changing my style. Although I have to get used to the playing style at Bolton,? said Gretar. Gretar went into the starting line up against Newcastle and hasn?t looked back since. ?I did not expect to go straight into the starting lineup and I thought I would have to prove myself in training to get the chance although I knew I was good enough to go staight into the starting lineup. I need to prove myself in every game and show the manager and supporers that I deserve to be in the team. I will not let anyone take my place away from me,? said Gretar. ?The team has done alright lately. The lads started badly at the start of the season but after the new manager came in things have been on the up. This team does not belong in a relegation sno profanities allowed. This is a good and strong club which belongs at the middle of the table at least,? says Gretar who intends to stay at Bolton even if the club gets relegated. ?I?ll be here next season no matter what happens. I have ambition and goals but I?ll stay here. Bolton is a great club to fulfill my ambition and goals,? said Gretar. Do for me !!

RESERVES CRUISE TO BOLTON WIN Paul Hassall at the County Ground 04 February 2008 Daniel Pacheco smashed home his first league goal for Liverpool Reserves as they stormed back to the top of the Barclays Premier Reserve League North with a 3-0 victory over Bolton at the County Ground. The Spanish starlet marked his first competitive start for the second-string in style when he broke the deadlock on 55 minutes with a ferocious shot that crashed in off the far post. It proved to be decisive too as the Reds went on to wrap up the points with two penalties in the last 10 minutes courtesy of both Ray Putterill and substitute Nathan Eccleston to leave the bottom placed Trotters still searching for their first win of the campaign. Ahead of the match Bolton fielded an experienced side against the high-flying Reds with former England international goalkeeper Ian Walker, Premier League regular Nicky Hunt and Xabi Alonso's brother, Mikel, all included in their starting XI. After an early scare the extra quality proved decisive too as they more than matched Liverpool in a closely contested first period. Ablett's side had not featured in a competitive match since their 4-0 demolition of Middlesbrough on December 10 but there was no sign of any rust early on as they came close to opening the scoring within seconds of the kick-off. A flowing move involving Emiliano Insua and Ray Putterill down the left saw the winger cut the ball back to Ryan Flynn who back heeled a pass into Jordy Brouwer who saw his fierce drive brilliantly blocked by the legs of Ian Walker. Ablett gave a first start to Spanish starlet Daniel Pacheco for the trip to the Lancashire FA headquarters and he nearly capped it with an assist on 10 minutes when he cut in from the left and fed Daniel Plessis on the edge of the box, but the Frenchman's awkward drive flashed inches wide of Walker's left-hand post. Unfortunately that would be as good as it would get for the remainder of the half as Liverpool's attempts to play their way through Bolton's rearguard was cancelled out by the home side's desire to launch long balls at every opportunity towards the dangerous Temitope Obadeyi. B ut it would be a different story after the break as the away side finally began to play the type of flowing football that has seen them take the Reserve league by storm this season. It began in a similar fashion to the first, with Jordy Brouwer racing clear within seconds of the restart, but Walker was again on hand to keep the Reds at bay. And on 50 minutes a purposeful run and shot from Pacheco was brilliantly held by Walker before Putterill fizzed a shot over the bar as the visitors looked to step it up a gear. The little Spaniard seemed to be enjoying himself and inevitably it was he who grabbed the opening goal when raced onto a through ball five minutes later and thundered a shot beyond Walker that cannoned off the inside of the far post and back across into the netting. It was the breakthrough that would ultimately end Bolton's stubborn resistance and enabled Liverpool to go on and secure a convincing victory. Ian Walker was continually called upon to perform heroics, keeping out both Ryan Flynn and Jay Spearing, while Brouwer went within inches of converting a delightful low ball from Emiliano Insua. But it was one way traffic and it was no surprise when Liverpool doubled their lead from the penalty spot on 83 minutes, with Ray Putterill converting the kick after Brouwer was felled in the area. And Liverpool rubbed salt in the home side's wounds on 89 minutes as Academy Under-18 starlet, Nathan Eccleston, stroked home another spot-kick within minutes of emerging off the substitutes bench to round off victory. It means Liverpool have now moved two points clear of second-placed Sunderland ahead of next week's mouthwatering top of the table clash with the Black Cats up in the North-East. Liverpool Reserves: Martin, Kelly, Insua, San Jose, Huth, Plessis, Flynn, Spearing, Brouwer, Pacheco, Putterill.

Interesting piece translated & posted on the official bwfc message board............ Translated from Icelandic newspaper, Bladid: Van Gaal slams Steinsson sale AZ Alkmaar manager, Louis van Gaal, has slammed the sale of star player Gretar Steinsson after his side has conceded 17 goals in 5 games since the Icelander left to join Bolton. ?It was not my choice to sell Gretar. I dont make choices at the top, other people do, but my personal opinion was the we should have kept the player. ?Its been difficult because we?ve lost a mainstay in the defence. Gretar has been the best right back in Holland for over two years so we cant expect to replace him straight away and we have suffered from that,? said van Gaal

Translated the article basically says Braaten is at last chance saloon & will be shipped out to Rennes if he doesnt cut it..... http://www.football365.fr/la_une/story_218...-du-temps.shtml

We have pessimists who are at one extreme, but I think there are a few people on this thread which must have unusually high levels of serotonin !!

Looks a whole lot better tonight 1 Arsenal 25 11 2 0 29 8 7 4 1 23 10 34 60 2 Man Utd 25 12 1 0 31 3 6 3 3 18 9 37 58 3 Chelsea 25 8 4 0 23 8 8 2 3 15 9 21 54 4 Everton 25 7 2 3 23 11 6 3 4 17 12 17 44 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5 Aston Villa 24 7 2 4 20 16 4 6 1 23 15 12 41 6 Man City 25 9 3 1 21 11 2 5 5 11 17 4 41 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7 Liverpool 23 4 6 1 23 9 6 4 2 14 8 20 40 8 Blackburn 25 5 4 4 13 13 5 5 2 19 18 1 39 9 Portsmouth 25 3 7 2 15 10 7 1 5 20 16 9 38 10 West Ham 24 5 4 3 15 12 5 2 5 14 10 7 36 11 Tottenham 25 6 2 4 33 22 1 6 6 12 19 4 29 12 Newcastle 24 5 4 3 16 17 2 2 8 11 25 -15 27 13 Bolton 25 5 4 4 17 11 1 3 8 9 23 -8 25 14 Middlesbrough 24 3 4 5 13 18 3 3 6 8 19 -16 25 15 Wigan 25 5 2 5 15 14 1 3 9 9 26 -16 23 16 Sunderland 24 6 3 3 15 13 0 2 10 9 29 -18 23 17 Reading 25 6 1 6 14 19 0 3 9 16 33 -22 22 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 18 Birmingham 25 3 4 5 13 14 2 2 9 11 23 -13 21 19 Fulham 24 2 5 5 16 21 0 5 7 7 21 -19 16 20 Derby 25 1 3 8 8 21 0 3 10 5 31 -39 9

According to Official Reading Site there was never any bid?? http://www.readingfc.premiumtv.co.uk/page/...1230759,00.html

Anyone remember this Jussi save from Cahill last season? Cahill Goal V birmingham http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96l9q_XSOV0

http://www.bwfc.premiumtv.co.uk/page/Gener...1229358,00.html

Hope this is true !! http://www.sportinglife.com/football/news/...p;TEAMHD=soccer

http://www.alfinaldelapalmera.com/index.ph...a-fichajes.html The Bolton offers three million by Babic and the club aims at that it will not make draftees Written by Mateo Gonz?lez Tuesday, 29 of January of 2008 Although the Betis has announced already by different routes that has resigned to their initial idea to incorporate winter reinforcements, the market continues notifying that concerns the heliopolitano club, as it points ABC of Seville. One of them is an interesting proposal of the based English Bolton in three million euros by the Croatian Marko Babic, who has been received with certain skepticism in the Betis reason why it seems that the operation will not fructify. Also, from this newspaper one scores at that the club verdiblanco will not make draftees, although assures that in the last hours they can return to change the opinions and, in that case, the only option would be mediocentro and the amounts available, according to sources of the club, are about five million euros.

Team News....... TEAMS Newcastle United: Shay Given, Stephen Carr, Jose Enrique, Steven Taylor, Claudio Cacapa, David Rozehnal, James Milner, Charles N?Zogbia, Damien Duff, Shola Ameobi, Michael Owen Subs: Steve Harper, James Troisi, David Edgar, Andy Carroll, Kazenga LuaLua Bolton Wanderers: Jussi Jaaskelainen, Kevin Nolan , Ricardo Gardner, Kevin Davies, Gretar Steinsson, Danny Guthrie, Gavin McCann, Joey O?Brien, Lubomir Michalik, Andy O?Brien, Matt Taylor Subs: Ali Al Habsi, Jlloyd Samuel, Stelios, Ivan Campo, Tamir Cohen Referee: Alan Wiley