Due to be aired on sky on Sunday however already on the YouTube channel if you fancy watching 

 

6 minutes ago, barrycowdrill said:

Due to be aired on sky on Sunday however already on the YouTube channel if you fancy watching 

 

Really looking forward to this. Gonna watch tonight 

The best times of our lives this era 

5 minutes ago, L/H White said:

Really looking forward to this. Gonna watch tonight 

The best times of our lives this era 

Yeh feel it will be an emotional one 😢 in a great way though 

39 minutes ago, L/H White said:

Really looking forward to this. Gonna watch tonight 

The best times of our lives this era 

I always equate the Big Sam days to Bradshawgate being at its absolute best as well. Mint days.

Well that was utterly brilliant 

Safe to say that 6-7 yrs was the greatest period of my life following this football club of ours. I would live it all again in a heartbeat and not take a second of it for granted 

even if the current or even future lot served up a tiny portion of that sides success, the enjoyment it brought, the unity we felt because of it I would die a happy man 

what a period, what a football club 

6 hours ago, Marc505 said:

I always equate the Big Sam days to Bradshawgate being at its absolute best as well. Mint days.

Reminds me of your book pal 👍

3 hours ago, barrycowdrill said:

Well that was utterly brilliant 

Safe to say that 6-7 yrs was the greatest period of my life following this football club of ours. I would live it all again in a heartbeat and not take a second of it for granted 

even if the current or even future lot served up a tiny portion of that sides success, the enjoyment it brought, the unity we felt because of it I would die a happy man 

what a period, what a football club 

Just watched it and it was a brilliant reminder of what a great football club we're lucky enough to support.

8 hours ago, barrycowdrill said:

Due to be aired on sky on Sunday however already on the YouTube channel if you fancy watching 

 

just finished and wanted to thank you for posting, great memories from some of the best years of my life

the period that made this Canadian a Bolton fan for life.. can't wait to watch this

It's hard to imagine us having better days, amazing video, look at some of the players mentioned who we never actually got, what a dramatic incredible era, great players, staff and just magic, Okocha will be forever my all time fave player.

that League Cup final hurt a lot, cheated and the ref was a joke throughout and unexpected,  was convinced we'd win, that's always a what if game for me, much like Holdsworth miss and how we'd have faired in the final and if it wasn't for that ref v Ipswich and we went up, a year earlier, we wouldn't have had that 'era' it would have been different, but how.

seems like yesterday then you realise he was appointed last century

 

Taggart being on it has put me off. 

I was 12 when we were promoted to the Premier League under Big Sam.

It's mental looking back at those years, what was achieved, how good we actually were. I show my lads clips on Youtube and they genuinely cannot believe we went toe-to-toe (and often beat) the best teams in England and even Europe.

18 years ago tomorrow we knocked an Atletico Madrid team containing the likes of Sergio Aguero & Diego Forlan out of the UEFA Cup. What I'd give to experience that just once more, and for the yoof to get a go too.

10 hours ago, MancWanderer said:

Reminds me of your book pal 👍

Heady days them 😀

Definitely a case of seeing things through nostalgic rose-tinted glasses, but it felt like the town was kind of on the crest of a wave early-mid 00s. Great nightlife, Boltonians all over telly and radio, the team doing so well.

I'll watch this doc today, will probably be a mess by the end of it!

Really enjoyed the documentary and it's obvious that those players hold BSA in very high regard. Him leaving when he did tainted my view of him and things like his OTT celebration at the Reebok when Blackburn scored further sullied the memories. This documentary has gone a long way to fixing that, the way Sam talks about the club and those players has endeared him to me again. Gartside (RIP) can't speak to it but if he did say that he didn't want BWFC to qualify for the Champions League then an ambitious manager naturally would see they've hit their ceiling and look for a club that could match their ambitions, Allardyce never managed that but I find it hard to blame him for trying.

God, we were lucky to experience all that. Bloody wonderful.

35 minutes ago, perth_white said:

Really enjoyed the documentary and it's obvious that those players hold BSA in very high regard. Him leaving when he did tainted my view of him and things like his OTT celebration at the Reebok when Blackburn scored further sullied the memories. This documentary has gone a long way to fixing that, the way Sam talks about the club and those players has endeared him to me again. Gartside (RIP) can't speak to it but if he did say that he didn't want BWFC to qualify for the Champions League then an ambitious manager naturally would see they've hit their ceiling and look for a club that could match their ambitions, Allardyce never managed that but I find it hard to blame him for trying.

IIRC Sam had said previously that we were 4th going in to the Jan window and the club had budget a £15m budget for the following summer. He wasn’t asking for extra money but that budget to be brought forward to enable him to sign the players needed to keep us in the CL spots 

that’s where the message relayed back was “we don’t want CL football” 

as you say PG sadly can’t respond to those claims but it has been position that Sam has relayed on a few occasions over the years 

I’m ace me. 
 

Repeat for a couple of hours

41 minutes ago, barrycowdrill said:

IIRC Sam had said previously that we were 4th going in to the Jan window and the club had budget a £15m budget for the following summer. He wasn’t asking for extra money but that budget to be brought forward to enable him to sign the players needed to keep us in the CL spots 

that’s where the message relayed back was “we don’t want CL football” 

And I'm sure that if the board agreed and we then subsequently failed to qualify, he's have quietly and happily accepted he'd already spent his budget and wouldn't have asked for more money that summer

46 minutes ago, barrycowdrill said:

IIRC Sam had said previously that we were 4th going in to the Jan window and the club had budget a £15m budget for the following summer. He wasn’t asking for extra money but that budget to be brought forward to enable him to sign the players needed to keep us in the CL spots 

that’s where the message relayed back was “we don’t want CL football” 

as you say PG sadly can’t respond to those claims but it has been position that Sam has relayed on a few occasions over the years 

As you say, PG isn't here to defend himself, but he certainly went to bat for Sam many many times asking the board for funds.

I'm still not convinced that PG said "we don't want to play in the Champions League".
I've a sneaking suspicion that the club just said they couldn't afford to gamble any more money on trying to get there.

1 hour ago, Traf said:

As you say, PG isn't here to defend himself, but he certainly went to bat for Sam many many times asking the board for funds.

I'm still not convinced that PG said "we don't want to play in the Champions League".
I've a sneaking suspicion that the club just said they couldn't afford to gamble any more money on trying to get there.

Inevitable that PG was the messenger getting shot 

1 hour ago, Traf said:

I'm still not convinced that PG said "we don't want to play in the Champions League".
I've a sneaking suspicion that the club just said they couldn't afford to gamble any more money on trying to get there.

These are also my thoughts, I guess we'll never know

How long is the documentary 

It was great reliving those times but is it only me who sat there wanting to pull that fucking grey hair out of his nostril? 😀

20 minutes ago, RONNIE PHILLIPS said:

It was great reliving those times but is it only me who sat there wanting to pull that fucking grey hair out of his nostril? 😀

I spotted that and thought the same 

42 minutes ago, jeep said:

How long is the documentary 

90 min

Watched it last night, its fantastic, only thing is I wish they had included the highlights he was watching (not sure if thats maybe a regional version issue - every time it showed him watching an important moment or goal, it just showed still images, and only post match interviews etc. were shown in full).

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