I've read some utter tripe in my time but this is ridiculous. Anyone who knows anything about football knows Bolton don't come close to North End in terms of club size. We have a far better history. 2 titles, a double, the only team to go a season unbeaten, the biggest win in English football. Bolton remind us of their draw in Munich. As for crowds, home crowds should be higher in horwich as you've had over a decade of premier league football therefore the potential to capture casual fans from Chorley etc. That, added with your much bigger population, 250k v 150k approx and you should be getting 10k more than us at least. You're not.
Now let's look at away support. For the 3rd season running we're taking more to you than you took to us despite getting a lower allocation (Why we can't have the whole stand and segregate in your east stand I'll never know) and you charging us more than we charge you. But it's not just you. We took 6k and 7k to Blackburn the last 2 times we played them. We'll take that this year. Plus 5k to Wigan. We have away support like you could only dream of.
It's not just your new ground either. Many of you will remember thousands of Preston locked outside burnden with loads more in the home end despite us going down and you going up.
2001 is another example. 5k Preston v 2.5k (approx ) Bolton at each other's ground. Then the play-off final at least 10k more Preston.
At 1 point you could always throw "What division are you in ?" At us. But not now. Not only do we have much better support, we have a much better team
We are superior
