https://www.theguardian.com/football/2020/nov/17/youri-djorkaeff-england-fans-fifa-bolton-liverpool

39 minutes ago, tomski said:

Love stuff like this. I was escorted out of a Southampton bit like that as I kept  celebrating when we scored. A few complaints and they walked me along the pitch side and I was applauded by our fans on entrance to our end.

Felt like I was in my own football factory minus some key ingredients:

Being remotely hard

Any violence whatsoever 

Same here. Was a student at Burnley Tech and lived in digs. I went in the Burnley side of the Long Side with the Burnley lads but Bolton had scored before we even got in. The no-man’s-land between the two sets of supporters seemed massively wide and I spoke to a cop on the gate at the bottom gate in the Burnley end he told me I needed to go see the copper on the other gate; at the top of the Bolton side. So I had to walk the diagonal with Burnley fans shouting, “wanker, wanker...” and the Bolton fans all just looking over applauding me up every step. All I could think was, don’t trip... don’t trip.

14 hours ago, gonzo said:

Lads like @barrycowdrill lad have had it tougher than anyone. Imagine being 18, all theyve ever seen is total shite bar one season that we nearly fucked up and the football was dross. And forest.

A full childhood of utter fucking crap, soulless empty home game and continually let down on big aways. Not a cup run or giantkilling in sight.

Fuck me.

Aye he’d been to a few games here and there before but my lads real interest picked up from the Stoke semi. That was his first ‘proper’ game (he was 7) and as we all know it’s been atrocious since 

Got his first ST was the next season when we then got relegated and he’s had one ever since. He’s had the one promotion season which baring 2 games (Vale and Peterborough) was pretty average anyway and the Forest home game. 
 

granted they’re probably up with in all of our greatest BWFC experiences but fuck me 3 games in 11 years is slim pickings 

thankfully there’s a little mob of them that’s kept them all interested and they all go together otherwise the club would have lost them many moons ago 

Edited November 18, 20205 yr by barrycowdrill

47 minutes ago, barrycowdrill said:

thankfully there’s a little mob of them that’s kept them all interested and they all go together otherwise the club would have lost them many moons ago 

I think that rings true no matter someone's age to be honest. Could never imagine putting up with the last decade or so if I went to games on my tod.

1 hour ago, Leyther_Matt said:

I think that rings true no matter someone's age to be honest. Could never imagine putting up with the last decade or so if I went to games on my tod.

Aye it’s what it’s all about really 

On 17/11/2020 at 18:44, Rudy said:

Without doubt the best player I’ve ever had the pleasure of seeing for us. Not even close

Anelka for me, Youri a close second. 

45 minutes ago, leef78 said:

Anelka for me, Youri a close second. 

I enjoyed watching Jay Jay Okocha more than anybody else. I don't think anybody else could have scored a goal of that quality to win the relegation play off v West Ham

I still revisit the you tune video of THAT free kick v Villa

17 minutes ago, MickyD said:

I still revisit the you tune video of THAT free kick v Villa

Tremendous.

After his free kicks this season, maybe Crawford should have a look at it too.

This article has just popped up in my news feed, couldn't believe when he signed for us.

 

https://amp.theguardian.com/football/2020/nov/17/youri-djorkaeff-england-fans-fifa-bolton-liverpool

Aye

Okocha had the tricks, Youri had the class

The whole team under Allardyce oozed class. Was it mismanagement at this period that sealed our current fate or did later events do us in?

Anderson was a cock but  was he facing an already impossible task?

44 minutes ago, MickyD said:

The whole team under Allardyce oozed class. Was it mismanagement at this period that sealed our current fate or did later events do us in?

Anderson was a cock but  was he facing an already impossible task?

If it wasn't sustainable under Allardyce where we had that spell of averaging 26k+ then I suppose it never will be. The £40k a week to Okocha and the like would have surely put us amongst the highest payers at the time, even taking in to consideration the likes of Charlton and Barness would have presumably been on below average wages.

I seem to recall the argument was that we weren't paying out transfer fees which meant we could offer higher signing on fees, so maybe the issue arrived once we started shelling out for players instead of relying on free transfers.

Other clubs realised that the BWFC system had some merit and thus created competition for signatures. When it first started we got some cracking players who didn’t appear on the radars of other clubs. High sign on fee, high wages, fuck all to the parent club.

On 18/11/2020 at 07:50, tomski said:

Love stuff like this. I was escorted out of a Southampton bit like that as I kept  celebrating when we scored. A few complaints and they walked me along the pitch side and I was applauded by our fans on entrance to our end.

Felt like I was in my own football factory minus some key ingredients:

Being remotely hard

Any violence whatsoever 

 

 

That proper made me laugh - excellent.

6 hours ago, ZicoKelly said:

Aye

Okocha had the tricks, Youri had the class

I know he didn't play as many games as the others but Hierro was as good as any.  I recently watched the Bolton-Chelsea Lampard/title match and it was frenetic, not a lot of quality football amongst all the fouls, stoppages and long throws, but whenever Hierro got on the ball time seemed to stand still.  He picked a pass long or short and made it look like a coach showing the kids how it should be done.  What a player.

4 minutes ago, Johnnyrotten said:

I know he didn't play as many games as the others but Hierro was as good as any.  I recently watched the Bolton-Chelsea Lampard/title match and it was frenetic, not a lot of quality football amongst all the fouls, stoppages and long throws, but whenever Hierro got on the ball time seemed to stand still.  He picked a pass long or short and made it look like a coach showing the kids how it should be done.  What a player.

I can't remember what game it was, but, I'd love to see that 40 yard 1-2 between Okocha and Djorkaeff again

On 17/11/2020 at 22:34, crawshawbooth said:

know one little lad now 12 years old , had a season ticket for a few years  and said to his dad last year  " i dont want to go anymore"

i am surprised the social havent been onto his dad for child cruelty for the shit he has had to see 

Yup. Doubt I'll get my lad back down once they're open. Not like I can club him round the back of the swede, throw him in the boot, then drag him into the stadium. 

Only chance is a great run from now on, with some sumptuous victories.

5 hours ago, MickyD said:

Other clubs realised that the BWFC system had some merit and thus created competition for signatures. When it first started we got some cracking players who didn’t appear on the radars of other clubs. High sign on fee, high wages, fuck all to the parent club.

Man Utd are a club that do it. They don't pay the sums needed for world class strikers in their prime, but will pay for ex world class ones such as Ibrahimovic and Cavani when they are the wrong side of 33 and require less money

9 minutes ago, Roger_Dubuis said:

Man Utd are a club that do it. They don't pay the sums needed for world class strikers in their prime, but will pay for ex world class ones such as Ibrahimovic and Cavani when they are the wrong side of 33 and require less money

😂

Well played sir, well played!

1 hour ago, Roger_Dubuis said:

Man Utd are a club that do it. They don't pay the sums needed for world class strikers in their prime, but will pay for ex world class ones such as Ibrahimovic and Cavani when they are the wrong side of 33 and require less money

Only difference is BSA did it successfully 🤣

1 hour ago, Roger_Dubuis said:

Man Utd are a club that do it. They don't pay the sums needed for world class strikers in their prime, but will pay for ex world class ones such as Ibrahimovic and Cavani when they are the wrong side of 33 and require less money

Oh, bravo!

Henrik Larsson too.

3 hours ago, ZicoKelly said:

I can't remember what game it was, but, I'd love to see that 40 yard 1-2 between Okocha and Djorkaeff again

aye - remember it well, but not the opposition. JJ had to scurry back a few yards to collect it, so to make a point just launched it back with bugger all backlift, inch perfect. Happy days.

1 hour ago, SatanGreavsie said:

aye - remember it well, but not the opposition. JJ had to scurry back a few yards to collect it, so to make a point just launched it back with bugger all backlift, inch perfect. Happy days.

Thinking against a team in blue, Everton or Brum

11 hours ago, ZicoKelly said:

Thinking against a team in blue, Everton or Brum

Me and the wife both remember it as being Everton but neither of us has great recall so could be bollocks.