Thanks for all of the good times

One of our legends they didn't like it up "em & the thunder of a Kevin Davies tackle in the pipeline gave many a defender the willies .

Remember reading about Ryan Shawcross after we beat Stoke 3-1 on the opening day of the season 2008?2009?

 

Davies absolutely battered him and Pulis dropped him and told him to get in the gym and build himself up

 

 

The bruises have long since healed and the cuts didn’t leave any scars, but Ryan Shawcross will never forget the day he got “beaten up” by Kevin Davies.

Bolton’s big centre-forward was the first striker that ­Shawcross faced as a raw 20-year-old making his entrance to the Premier League.

And Davies dished out a ­‘welcome to the big time’ bit of bullying as he helped himself to one of the goals in a 3-1 win.

Two years later the pair face up again at Wembley today in an FA Cup semi-final with Shawcross – now promoted to be Stoke’s ­skipper – more than ready for a repeat of the challenge.

And he can even smile at the memory of how a rookie centre-half got a working over from an ­experienced old pro.

Shawcross admitted: “I’d had a ­really good year in the ­Championship, ­winning promotion, and was really looking forward to starting off in the top flight.

“Let’s say it was a tough game.

“I’d heard about his reputation, but sometimes you just don’t realise how tough it can be.

“Don’t get me wrong. There was nothing unfair. But he is a very good player, very strong, and he gave me a lesson. Looking back I wasn’t ready to play against somebody of that quality and physical strength at that time. It probably happened for the best.

“After the game the manager talked to me and suggested I step back for a few weeks and do some work to build myself up physically and that’s what I did.

“It was nearly two months before I got back in the side.

“But thankfully since then I’ve hardly been out.

“I suppose you could say I was beaten up, in the right way, but good things come from bad.

“It’s funny because it’s two years ago, but I look back on that game as if it was yesterday because I can remember how down I felt after it.

“I wasn’t sure if I was going to be ready to be a Premier League player after all

Another favourite memory of mine, when he scored that very "un Kevin Davies-like finish" into the top corner at home to Spurs and ran off pointing to the captains armband he'd just inherited.

 

But Munich trumps all for me. It's a moment I'll bang on about forever.

Must be closest we have had to a lofthouse style center forward in the top flight since the great man . Sure kev would of loved to have played in that era apart from the wages

Nice article about Thierry Henry's adulation of SKD

 

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2006/sep/30/sport.comment1

Not sure what to think after reading this http://m.theboltonnews.co.uk/sport/13646982.Kevin_Davies__Preston_exit_left_me__demoralised__but_home_town_Bolton_cheered_me_up_/

 

With the passage of time he'll be a bonafide legend I'm sure and another reminder just how far in the shit we are now

It's nice to remember the good times. Good luck to him whatever he does.

Bit sad how it ended but that's water under the bridge now, let's remember the big mon as the Wanderers legend he surely is. All the best for the future Kevin, you'll always be welcome at Bolton Wanderers, your club

The only time I've seen Kevin look scared was when zico (the poster off here) told him he got a hard on when he came on for his England appearance

Great player for BWFC - made the most of his limited ability - scared the shit out of many defenders - that goal in Munich.....

 

Good luck to him in whatever he does.

Not many will hold both the most fouls /fouled records for multiple seasons like SKD. Basically confirmation that refs didn't have a fucking clue.

 

As has been said not the most gifted but certainly used his physique to get the best out of his game. Take the drama of his last few months out of it and no doubt he's a modern legend.

 

Munich....

A true Wanderers legend

He was all I wanted from a bolton player.. I think about Munich away and I still can't believe it happened.. legend

We'd been in a relegation battle with Djorkaeff and Jay Jay, it was the signing of Kevin Davies in summer 2003 that coincided with us having the 4 glorious seasons in the top half of the league.Perhaps it wasn't just a coincidence.Our couple of world class midfielders needed a Kevin Davies.

We'd been in a relegation battle with Djorkaeff and Jay Jay, it was the signing of Kevin Davies in summer 2003 that coincided with us having the 4 glorious seasons in the top half of the league.Perhaps it wasn't just a coincidence.Our couple of world class midfielders needed a Kevin Davies.

He was also a good foil for Kevin Nolan who scored a good few feeding of Kevin Davies, most of the big clubs hated playing us back then I'd love us to be like that again one day.

I read a good while ago that before a certain match Freedman told Davies how he should play his striker role that weekend. Davies replied "With all due respect Dougie, I've played in the premier league". I love that barbed comment.

I'll remember the goal and effort he made trying to get us back in the League Cup Final.

Traf is on holiday I think, but he would say he's a cunt.

Well he can fuck off then.

Well he can fuck off then.

Yeah Traf, you can fuck right off

Yeah Traf, you can fuck right off

I think he can fuck the fuck off

 

Short priced winner picking wanker

It's nice to remember the good times. Good luck to him whatever he does.

I do remember how back in 2009 I went the relatively short distance south of here to the funeral of Shaun Bates, the little BWFC supporting lad killed in a car crash on the M6. KD turned up to it (alongside Tony Kelly) to represent the club, which he did with good grace and civility to the mourners afterwards - didn't have to do it, but it obviously meant something to him.

And the broken cheekbone performance at Charlton was summat to behold!

My favourite Wanderers' player.......the most influential player during the club's most successful period.

 

Too many great memories to mention them all. Munich, Evra, the finger & the cheekbone, the England cap, the combination with Kevin Nolan, the tackles that could lift the whole crowd & the rest of team, etc etc  ...I think repeatedly terrorising West Ham might be my happiest memory of SKD.

 

No bad thoughts at all about SKD & he should always be most welcome at BWFC.

Anyone who thinks otherwise isn't a Wanderers fan. Fucking fact.

Anyone who thinks otherwise isn't a Wanderers fan. Fucking fact.

 

What about folk who call for a boycott of home games? - are they Wanderers fans?

I believe SKD will be at Alder House for Atherton Colls v Ashton Athletic tonight, then again Thursday for the launch of the Bolton and Bury District League U21 thing.