Died aged 52,

very sad news condolences to his family.

 

remember watching him in the 80's, if my memory serves me right did he score an overhead kick against shrewsbury ?

 

used to re-enact it on the park when i was a lad,but not with any great sucess

Mike Carter showed flashes of real quality strange that he just seemed to disappear it is a mystery as to what happened to him, another player who was real quality was Dave Hoggan he went to the states and had a long and succesful career there, if he had stayed here he had the ability to play for Scotland.

 

Thought you said he was real quality?

 

 

Anyway, RIP, very sad

 

 

Thought you said he was real quality?

 

 

Anyway, RIP, very sad

 

Scotland were very decent in the 70s 80s, we're on the march with Allys army.

Had a little google search for mick carter and low and behold he has his own business round corner from where I work in Warrington.

Edited June 7, 201214 yr by Mounts Kipper

Mike Carter played for Wrexham in that famous promotion game of ours at the Racecourse in 1988.

He scored a couple of cracking goals in Div One in the midst of us sinking without a trace once Frank Worthington had left.

Dunno why but the goal of his I remember most was a really late one in Div 2 at home to Orient in a 1-0 win on a Burnden mudbath.

Check out Carter's skills in the build up to our first goal on this game at Maine Road. Cocky celebration as well!

 

Great post, was at that game but only a vague seem to remember I was in seats for that game not sure if sat with Bolton fans or not, can anyone remember where the away fans were located at Maine Road in them days? Was it in a corner? Also had no idea Carter played at Wrexham, that revelation came as a suprise.

 

Only fair to mention Chris Thompson's only top flight goal - the first in a 5-2 walloping suffered at the City Ground against Cloughie's European Champions.

 

Great post, was at that game but only a vague seem to remember I was in seats for that game not sure if sat with Bolton fans or not, can anyone remember where the away fans were located at Maine Road in them days? Was it in a corner? Also had no idea Carter played at Wrexham, that revelation came as a suprise.

Edited June 7, 201214 yr by Mounts Kipper

Great post, was at that game but only a vague seem to remember I was in seats for that game not sure if sat with Bolton fans or not, can anyone remember where the away fans were located at Maine Road in them days? Was it in a corner? Also had no idea Carter played at Wrexham, that revelation came as a suprise.

 

I too was there

 

I think that we were in a corner of the Kippax

I too was there

 

I think that we were in a corner of the Kippax

I think it was part of the Kippax

I was there - opposite the Kippax in the same corner of the ground to which Reidy celebrates after the goal.

There were a few Wanderers fans there. Not sure where else they were though.

I was there - opposite the Kippax in the same corner of the ground to which Reidy celebrates after the goal.

There were a few Wanderers fans there. Not sure where else they were though.

 

From memory think that is where I was, were we in seats? Don't think there was too many Bolton there that day although good cheer when we score.

R.I.P Chris Tommo, does anyone know how he died?

 

Mike Carter did play against us, for Wrexham, when we won promotion. I was on a bricklaying course with him a couple of years later, in the early 90s.

What is his business in Warrington?

R.I.P Chris Tommo, does anyone know how he died?

 

Mike Carter did play against us, for Wrexham, when we won promotion. I was on a bricklaying course with him a couple of years later, in the early 90s.

What is his business in Warrington?

 

It's construction/real estate.

From memory think that is where I was, were we in seats? Don't think there was too many Bolton there that day although good cheer when we score.

 

Yep. Def in the seats. I was only a kid with my Dad so memories don't have the greatest clarity about whether there were other Wanderers fans in that area. Fact you were there also suggests there were.

If we had kept Chris Thompson, Mick Carter, Walsh, Whatmore, Hoggan, Brian Smith David Burke, together with a fit Peter Reid and Tony Henry the 80s would not have been such a devastating decade for Bolton.

i was also in those 'seats'

 

they were uncovered benches divided by lines between the main stand and behind the goal, opposite the kippax

 

our standing fans were diagonally opposite, i think

and mounts, the prolific non league scorer was mark carter

 

later to score hatfuls for bury

and mounts, the prolific non league scorer was mark carter

 

later to score hatfuls for bury

 

Fancy you remembering a Shakers legend any how unless it's a mistake in 87 it says it was Mick Carter.

If we had kept Chris Thompson, Mick Carter, Walsh, Whatmore, Hoggan, Brian Smith David Burke, together with a fit Peter Reid and Tony Henry the 80s would not have been such a devastating decade for Bolton.

 

Always thought Phil Wilson was a good player as well. Went on to spend most of the 80s with Huddersfield in Div 2 while we languished. It was the financial crisis at the time along the habit of changing manager every summer in the earlier 80s that cocked it all up.

 

 

Always thought Phil Wilson was a good player as well. Went on to spend most of the 80s with Huddersfield in Div 2 while we languished. It was the financial crisis at the time along the habit of changing manager every summer in the earlier 80s that cocked it all up.

 

He was a good little industrious player was Wilson, strange we lost all that home grown talent for little or nothing, Burke (13 years later) and Whatmore came back again obviously had a great love for BWFC and did the business on there return.

Edited June 7, 201214 yr by Mounts Kipper

can anyone remember where the away fans were located at Maine Road in them days? Was it in a corner?

Yes . Looking at the pitch ,we got the left hand corner of the Kippax. On the video, it's the fairly empty bit shown on 20 to 26 seconds.

Terrible news. Remember Tommo hooking up with Steve Whitworths ex. She worked in my local bank and use to get me comps for away games. Anyway, thoughts are with her and his family.

Where did David Burke end up after his first spell was it Palace?

Where did David Burke end up after his first spell was it Palace?

 

7yrs at Huddersfield, then onto Palace.

R.I.P. Chris. The Citeh-Bolton game in 80 was a piss poor turnout from the Whites, the majority like me was stood on the left side of the Kippax." Your going down with the Bolton" was one of the chants that day.

Chris Thompson's time at Bolton wasn't a great era for the club but pre-dated the really, really bad times and there are some good memories of him and those times on here.

 

I'd also forgotten that after he left for Blackburn he came to a presentation night for the Bolton Boys Federation team I played for in 1984 and gave us our end of season awards.

This is a quote from Jim McDonagh in today's Bolton News. Reckon this sums up how it came to be that we had so many good young uns in the early to mid 80s but still struggled. Our finances meant we kept selling and pushing too many younger players in to the first XI all at the same time rather than phasing in the changes. Same thing continued with Steve Thompson and Warren Joyce further in to the 80s. The latter Thommo was a really good player in his later 20s but just had too much responsibility put his way between about 83 and 87.

 

Jim McDonagh on Chris Thompson

?I can see Chris now, in his kit. He was a lively lad, always a threat on the right and looked like he was going to do really well in the game. Then we had that decline and weren?t winning as many games as we should have done and he seemed to suffer from that. If he?d have been in a better side I?m sure he would have blossomed.