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Not a lot around the place lads - usual fast food outlets on retail park. There's the Charles Darwin in one direction and The Brooklands in the other. Both within walking distance but for anyone staying over, the town itself is beautiful

If that magician bloke off Britain's Got Talent doesn't win the final on Saturday night, he's got to be worth a phone call surely? With the other mind wrecker who did all that guff in the Beeb's coverage of the FA Cup. They could be first joint managers at Bolton since McFarland and Todd and that worked out really well IIRC? Imagine buying oooh, I dunno, let's say a Gary Madine type and them pair making him play like Ibrahimovic? Get's my vote anyroad

I'm bald and so is my dad. Neither of us has had any contact with anyone from Bolton Wanderers concerning the managerial vacancy

I've seen over 30 League One games this season. Some good, some bloody awful. But there are some really good players at this level - Ajose, Danny Mayor at Bury and Jack Payne of Southend just three names that stand out. Teams will love going to the Macron. It takes time for teams to gel and with a completely new look side we can't afford to be playing catch up. Plus they're taking no momentum with them either. The pain may well be prolonged I'm sad to say

I was in a box with 3 BWFC fans and half a dozen Clarets. They were told before the game not to celebrate but they were so fucking lucky, you could hardly blame them for jumping around like loons. Kick in the nads but we're so toothless up top you just knew what would happen if Grey managed to stay onside after getting a bit giddy on several occasions 5/6 yards offside sometimes. Heard an interesting tale re our proposed new Chairman: that Wimbledon had few admirers for DH and the best bid they had received for anyone was £750k. Up strolls Toddy and offers them five times as much. After much deliberation (10 seconds) the proverbial arm was ripped off. Save for Anelka and Cahill, is there anyone that we haven't spunked a load of dosh on for pitiful returns? PS: Really good performance yesterday, you don't always get what you deserve in football. But over the course of a season, the table doesn't lie. Sad fact is, we're down and it will be a bloody long road back

RIP Phil. Now not the time for questions. Just respect. A Wanderer. Like us.

Redfearn's last kick pen for Oldham on last day in 1990 v Sheff Weds (took them up) cost me 5 grand in an acca. So on that basis he is absolutely still a cunt. And always will be. Eaves og 90+7 wins it for them. 4-5

The car park and any subsequent LAND sales. Are we all happy that the monies are going to the football club and not its benefactor for the past 13 years?

Tonge Moor - yeah but not next season as our lot are going down n all

Wanderer through and through but been working for a current League 1 club for 9 years now. In that time - most of it spent in L2 - I've seen a lot of lower league football and it's going to be really hard for us. There are plenty of good sides down here and clubs with bigger fan bases than ours that have struggled to make the kind of impact you might expect of a 'bigger club.' Coventry, Sheff United, Pompey are all decent examples of this. Macron will be the best stadium in the division and teams will raise their game against us. There are also some bloody good managers down there. Neil McDonald (now where did he come from?) is performing miracles at Blackpool, Nigel Adkins at the Blades, Clough continuing the good work done by JFH at Burton, Tony Mowbray, Phil Parkinson, somebody Brown... take your pick. Things are grim in BL6. Ultimately where I'm at right now, is that somehow we can come out of this with a football club to support and in its current guise. You can't let almost 140 years of history simply disappear and if relegation is the worst that comes out of this - even a double relegation - I'd rip your arm off for that. As an aside, I was reliably informed yesterday by someone who is highly regarded in the game and has fantastic contacts in Lancashire, that any LAND deals would go directly to ED and not to the football club.

yer fucked if all you can take on the pitch with you is 11 Nigel Reo Coker's

Games that really stick out in my mind at Burnden highs and lows (and date order and accuracy may be a touch patchy so forgive), this one Miami remember someone being walked around perimeter by Embankment with a dart hanging out of his head, a 3-4 home defeat against Carlisle on a Tuesday neet which cost us in the end, Fulham League Cup tie when Bobby Moore walked his team off the pitch for a bit, Blackpool at home in 74 after that stabbing on the Kop, when they yanked down some lettering with a piece of rope attached to a Maggees Ales advert. That were some retaliation and cost us 20 quid to put right. Sam's Header from St Peters Way to beat the Mackems in front of 42,000, THAT Newcastle 3-3 in front of 46,000, floodlight failure v Everton in 2nd leg and Latchford's header right in front of me from a Goodlass cross with 50,000 on - McKenzie hit corner flag with a pen in 2nd half - a League Cup tie at home to dirty Leeds (lost 1-3 I think) with bottles raining down all night long on Embankment, swapping ends with the Chels when they took the Lever End (76?), Crystal Palace 74 (W 2-0) as my first ever game on Lever End, Man U (0-1) in 75 watching from back of Manny Rd Stand as the red fuckers swarmed back up towards Greyhound track, Wolves 0-1 in 77, beating Forest 1-0 in FAC when we were shit and they were European Champions, Spurs 6-1 League Cup, the last match obvs, new floodlights for Cov at home in LC when they wore all brown, Mansfield at home (Ian Greaves was their manager) in FRT when we lost but I despaired at seeing the Embankment half ripped up for first time, Aldershot (say no more).... I'll have forgotten loads but it was great. So sad they way it ended with the fire. Fantastic memories though way too many to list. Before money took over and ruined the working mans sport

we're gonna win the Cup ee ai edio....

Wanderers fans having to shift portaloos so the groundsman could get his tractor onto the pitch and spread some sand so EFC could get this game on around 1 o'clock. Bet each and every one of them spilled more sweat in those few minutes than these salary thieves have managed all season. So sad to see a once proud club floundering like this

Wanderers fans having to shift portaloos so groundsman could get tractor onto pitch and get this game on around 1 o'clock. Bet each and every one of them spilled more sweat in those few minutes than these salary thieves have managed all season. So sad to see a once proud club floundering like this

their Cup Final; don't forget. And Lee Clark will recall how we set up away from home from his time at Brum. That said, 0-5

went to Greenhous Meadow last night to cover Shrews v WBA. Craig Dawson played about 75 mins for Baggies in their 2-1 win and apart from one superb interception late on, slipped under the radar. I was talking to one of their snappers in the press room beforehand and asked whether his transfer request had been granted. He said not but anticipated the lad commanding a fee of between 5 and 8 million if he were to be moved out. That's us out of it then. Oh, and the tenuous Watford link? They're at Shrews on Saturday. I'll update as to what they're like at the weekend. Cheers.

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Derby for me but for different reasons. On 31 minutes today, the Derby fans will applaud for a dear friend of mine, Colin Bloomfield, who has terminal cancer at 31 years of age. Colin, until recently, fronted BBC Radio Derby's Breakfast show, but the tumours have spread to his brain and he doesn't have long left unless a miracle cure can be found. Col is actually a massive Shrewsbury Town fan and I have had the absolute privilege of commentating with him on ShrewsPlayer a few times. Sadly, his father - also a brilliant journalist with the Beeb - lost his life last week at 80 so as you can imagine, Colin and his family aren't having the best of times right now. He's a guest of the club today so COYR I say. Any twitter followers he's @colinbloomfield or search #clap4bloomfield. Thanks.

I genuinely believe we do have the Chris at Shrewsbury and the Tom is currently walking around the Market Place in town

Sorry Malc. He's a WIP. ITK. YHIHF. FACT. IIRC. YOOF. GTI....

Last season to this is like comparing the latest Bentley to the entry model of the Dascia range. I was given Tom's Salop shirt when he left (I called him Tom then, as opposed to useless fucktard now) and I was proud of it. Now it lines the contents of my cat's litter tray. Last year I said he wasn't Championship material but there was raw talent that could be worked on. He did well for us 1st time around. 6 goals he got - 5 were worldies, mind. This season he's looked the palest imitation. I mean Sophie Ellis Bextor pale. He's a lower league striker at the very best. A contract extension suggests to me we have staff at the Reebok who couldn't spot a pair of tits if Kelly Brook whipped her bra off. I do accept he's in a struggling team but we are making chances for him. It's just that more often than not - make that a lot more often - you know the outcome before he sticks out a prosthetic limb or nods that beanbag of a head of his. He's shit. End of.

I often see updates on various social media sites giving updates on Wanderers players out on loan. Basically snapshots, so player x came on as sub after 66 mins in a 1-1 draw at y. I can give a FREE appraisal to DF and his staff on young Eaves as I've seen nigh on every game he's played for Shrewsbury since joining in November (two goals in that time). It's an honest appraisal for which a scout could potentially earn a coupe of hundred quid for their time. Oh yes, time. I left Greenhous Meadow yesterday at 2.30 in the afternoon and returned from Colchester (we lost 1-0) exactly 12 hours later. It was a relegation 6 pointer and Eaves missed a chance on 7 mins that my dead granny would have nutted in from her coffin. After that you could sense the belief had disappeared with the team basically thinking: 'here we go again, cow's arse/banjo.' If Tom Eaves is a Championship footballer, then that Boeing 777 will be back doing charter flights along the Fylde coast by the end of today. He runs like a flid, has no comprehension of the offside laws whatsoever, is scared of the ball messing up his girly fringe, and goals to chances conversion ration is running out about 1:10 I'd say. Frustration ain't the word and I would gleefully put him in my motor and run him up to BL6 in the next half hr. Doogie: do yourself a favour son and get him off the wage bill. He's stealing a wage at our place. To sum up: NOWHERE NEAR GOOD ENOUGH. Do not pin any hopes you have on him fellow Whites. He's dogspunk.

Given that my reverse psychology 0-3 prediction worked a treat last week.... Whites 0 Dingles 3. As you were Douglas & Co.

4 league defeats in 46 games! That takes some doing at any level. Brilliant football that season with 100 league goals. Fitting farewell to BP lifting the title. Fair do's Toddy - you'll do for me cocker. Oh, nearly forgot - good luck with the op. Did I mention I've just had me cartilage done?