paulhanley
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I've said this before but worth repeating. Bolton didn't play Bury at all from 68-85 and during that time Bolton fans did not look upon Bury with any real dislike. It was only in 85 when we'd sunk enough to have to play them that we realised how much they hated us. Over time, and with several embarrassing defeats at Burnden, we began to reciprocate. However we've played them on only a handful of occasions since 1992. As such, most fans of recent vintage don't seem to view Bury as rivals. So ... are Bury actually rivals? Depends who you ask and when they started supporting Bolton. Personally?? Wouldn't bat an eyelid if they went bust. Goodbye, good riddance.
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Not wanting to get in the way of some good old Wigan bashing but...
Was there not a similar story in the press before our semi v stoke?
How many did we sell for that?
Edit...says online we sent 6000 back,but still let's laugh at wigan,ha ha.
We sold about 28000 from memory.
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Sheff Weds.
Yep, League Cup game in 1993 - 1-1 draw at Bolton. Des Walker was the most famous player I remember from that night - wearing a Wanderers shirt.
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Dmbs
in Terrace Talk
Fuck em.
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You're right. Spot on.preston sold out
we didn't
we were sat right next to their lot in the third tier on the half way line
plenty empty seats in our bit - we had the smaller end, too
i remeber us having 28 to their 33 but i might be wrong
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The turd that won't flush fails to flush again. Still ...... a point isn't brilliant for them, with Arsenal, Tottenham and City away still to come.
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5 mins left: 10 man QPR 1 Wigan 0. Please hold on.
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Anybody know if there are tickets left for Ashton Gate? Any chance of it ending up pay on the day? Probably won't know whether I'll be able to go until Thursday or Friday.
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We lost that game 1-3 but it was they who got relegated, not us.
Didn't play them again for three years until we joined them in Div 4 - and there was more fun and games.
Hmm - no. The game you're mentioning was the Div 4 game. The 1-3 was in 84/5.
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We lost that game 1-3 but it was they who got relegated, not us.
Didn't play them again for three years until we joined them in Div 4 - and there was more fun and games.
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Was that the same occasion as when the door underneath the Burnden Paddock that separated home fans from away was booted in leading to all kinds of trouble?
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Bolton 1 Wolves 0 ..... we seem to be specialising in 1-0 home wins. Scorer? Pratley.
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... they're getting worried we could be in a position to send them down on the last day. http://fansonline.net/blackpool/mb/view.php?id=1420340
It is a very entertaining thought - especially on what is pretty much to the day the 60th anniversary of the 1953 cup final.
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I know I'm getting on & forgetful, but wasn't that his Liverpool testimonial, granted to him by Liverpool & played whilst he was with us?
You might be right, I was very young at the time. I thought it was Bolton v a combined Liverpool & Everton XI.
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First testimonial I remember was for Peter Thompson in 78 and he wasn't at Bolton for ten years. Stuart Hall scored in that game. Ahem.
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I think this is the right decision. He's been absolutely superb for us given that he was signed as a gamble on a free transfer. My favourite SKD moment will probably be him clattering that petulant c*nt Evra, Evra asking "why did you do this", for SKD to reply "because I don't like you".
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His managerial career is well and truly on the slide but I suspect he's one of those who'll maintain a role in the game of some kind until retirement. Much respected at Bolton whatever happens.
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This is a remarkable development when you consider we have English football's two leading clubs including one that parades itself as "the biggest club in the world", to our south, to our west an upstart Prem club, to our north a club that found a multi millionaire and won the league in the 90s (albeit now a joke) and about 40 miles away, Liverpool, supported by many Boltonians who went to school in the 80s. Bring it on, we need more of this. Be good to see the East lower corner and West lower full of yoof in future!
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Early days? Really loved that last day of 77/78 when we drew against Fulham at Burnden to secure the Div 2 championship, people drinking champagne all over the Manny Road stand. Then the 3-0 home win over the rags on Dec 22, 1978. Have to mention a 3-2 home win over Derby at the end of 81/2. It looked like we were certainties for relegation and we scored a very late goal and then escaped relegation a week later. Manic at Burnden in those last few mins. Later days? I just really love derby wins: the 1-0 home win over United under Megson and the 2-1 over Blackburn when Stuart Holden scored deserve mention. Loads of games from that 96/7 championship season bring back fantastic memories. If I was to be transported back in time to experience just one Bolton match again, I reckon I'd choose, predictably, Hull away in 92/3.
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Bolton didn't play Bury from about 1968 to 1985. My memories of the Wanderers start in the mid 70s. Those first nine or ten years of my memory as a Bolton fan are of plenty looking on Bury as their second team, certainly with no hate in the equation. It therefore came as a bit of a jarring shock in the mid to late 80s when they started playing us and beating and making clear they hate us. Does anybody else remember attitudes being different until the mid 80s or is my memory playing tricks?
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The trouble with Bury is they usually up their game by 100 per cent against us - results over the years show that. Four high scoring defeats at Burnden between 85 and 91 and, as they are very fond of pointing out, we've not beaten them at Gigg Lane since 1920 something in the league (we did win a league cup game there in 1993). I'd rather not give them a sniff of a game against us. I did enjoy us stuffing them 4-0 at the Reebok in 1998 though!Id also like us to get them in the cup.
Play them one last time.
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....... the clash of Lancashire sides recently dispensed with by Bolton at the Reebok.
Always keen to watch this game. Played pretty rarely but always exceptionally heated and feisty. 1230pm kick off at Ewood on Sunday. The usual police operation will no doubt be launched.
Can't stand either of 'em. Never could stand Blackburn and nowadays dislike Burnley due to the bile following the Coyle business (palpable nonsense spouted at the time like "Burnley are a bigger club than Bolton").
Nonetheless, I want Burnley to win. Knew they'd not beaten Wovers for a long time, hadn't realised it was as long ago as 1979!
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there's got to be a song that can involve salad bars, carrot crunching and tractors.
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George Wood
Peter Reid.
......... if that were now, the lawyers would be in feeding frenzy.
Pie Eaters....oh Dear
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Wigan Athletic are tin pot. Always have been, always will be. They have a good honest chairman and a very good manager who have amazing turd polishing skills. However, a turd they remain and one day it will be flushed.