The day the nightmare ends.

middlebrook heaving with tailgate parties and jubilant fans

Massive celebrations by Nat’s statue

A long long overdue reason to celebrate something genuinely incredible given years of disappointment.

Or a damp squib that brings out the misery-hungry naysayers?

Great post Cambridge

As Gonzo posted earlier, it’s never a dull moment following the Whites

Hopefully today there will be another piece of history to add to our great club

10-9, 5-4, 1-0......I don't give a toss. Just score one more than Exeter and we are truly back.

8 hours ago, gonzo said:

 

86-87 Aldershot

87-88 Promoted Wrexham

88-89 Wembley - Torquay

89-90 Playoffs Notts County

#90-91 Wembley - Tranmere

91-92 Cup run and the Soton game

92-93 Liverpool in Cup and Promotion, Hull, PNE etc

93-94 Cup run - Everton, Arsenal, Villa

94-95 Cup Final, Reading Play Offs

95-96 Prem

96-97 Champions. Last Season Burnden.

97-98 Relegation last day

98-99 Watford Play off final 

99-00 Barry Knight, Tranmere Semi, Villa semi. 

00-01 Play off promotion.

01-02 Youri and survival

02-03 JJ and last day survival

03-04 Boro league cup final 

04-05 UEFA qualification

05-06 UEFA France, Bulgaria, Istanbul and Portugal.

06-07 UEFA qualification

07-08 Euro jollies to Germany, Macedonia, Serbia, Spain and Portugal.

08-09 Not much but ultimately still comfortably in PL

09-10 Much the same

10-11 Brum away, Stoke semi

11-12 Relegation last day 

12-13 Nearly made Play Offs 

13-14 Think this was a dead season 

14-15 Lennon upsurge, Liverpool In cup. 

15-16 Relegation

16-17 Promotion, Vale away etc 

17-18 Forest Home, Wilbraham

18-19 Relegation 

19-20 Relegation 

20- 21 ....

 

This is just in my life time.  Like many have said life is never dull. 

Excellent that 👏.

See you’ve had a lot Twitter coverage to with it mate 👍

Love it.

Come on Bolton, let’s get the job done and then push for something more.

Bolton 1-0 Exeter 

Woke up early and am too excited to get back to sleep. COYWM!

5 hours ago, DavidLeesMullet said:

First ever Bolton match was the Legends match in 2016, saw some great players on the day though not in their prime sadly. Must admit got quite emotional when Fabrice Muamba came on.

I still can't watch the Muamba incident without becoming a blubbering mess. Anyway, todays the day - COYFWM

Enjoy your day the best you can .

After coming away from the Barbican yesterday evening as it went well over capacity its crazy they'd rather you were outside spraying  beer on each other than masked up in ground. 

I've had 3 hours sleep... All revved up and ready to go

 

COYWM 

Soooo looking forward to this.

Still hoping that we can win the league, tho we may av run out of games to do that now, but WE NEVER GIVE UP.

Its great that our destiny is in our own hands, I’m certain that we won’t waste this opportunity.

Another 1-0 will be fine.

I actually really really enjoy these 1-nillers, smug in the knowledge that try as they might, the opposition ain’t gonna score! 😂 

Anyone else? 

The only games I've managed to watch this season have been the 2 televised here. My Dad has insisted that I don't get up in the middle of the night to watch and jinx it. So in a few hours I'll be dropping enough Temazepam to knock a horse out.

 

Hopefully when I wake the usual culprits will be moaning about another 1-0 win and the rest of the not rights on here will be celebrating and drinking heavily.

Kept waking up, thinking about the game.

thank god junior has a game this morning to eat up a few hours.

coywm

8 hours ago, lofthouse said:

 

 

32 minutes ago, Ruba Mustafa said:

Soooo looking forward to this.

Still hoping that we can win the league, tho we may av run out of games to do that now, but WE NEVER GIVE UP.

Its great that our destiny is in our own hands, I’m certain that we won’t waste this opportunity.

Another 1-0 will be fine.

I actually really really enjoy these 1-nillers, smug in the knowledge that try as they might, the opposition ain’t gonna score! 😂 

Anyone else? 

After the game, yes

Slept surprisingly well (eventually). Still wasn’t expecting to be awake at this time though and the game was literally the first thought on my mind.

Club shop order is ready to collect (home shirt and some gear for my mate’s lad who has become BWFC obsessed this season despite his parents supporting the Manc clubs) so I’ll nip up this morning and offer up a prayer to the football gods. 

COYWM let’s finish this shit.

Hopefully be bouncing round the ground at 5 with the dog in tow. 

 

We should be filling this place today.

Come on boys! 👏

COYFWM

7 minutes ago, desperado said:

 

We should be filling this place today.

Come on boys! 👏

COYFWM

That’s a beautiful photo, when did you take it?

2 minutes ago, Ros Coe said:

That’s a beautiful photo, when did you take it?

Vietnam 1970

12 hours ago, gonzo said:

 

 

07-08 Euro jollies to Germany, Macedonia, Serbia, Spain and Portugal.

13-14 Think this was a dead season 

 

You can add to 07/08 that we looked dead and buried with 5 games left, then got 11 from 15 including Boro away. 

13/14, well DF did gift us with our worst start in 100+ years (and to prove it wasn't a fluke did it again the next season)

Beer time soon 

Gather found ladies, Rudy has a story to provide a bit of nostalgia 

Started off being a wanderers fan as my granddad took me, all kids at school supported United even wore the kits, this was around the Cantona era, they were winning everything but never went

I couldn’t understand supporting a team you would never go to watch especially when one was down the road

Si many highs and lows Liverpool away, league cup final losses, reading play off final, relegation, promotion, Europe, 5-0

Its been an absolute rollercoaster. 
 

The last decade has been awful, seen the soul ripped out of my club and town, it’s been heartbreaking.

Seeing us what seemed like minutes from going out of business was the lowest of the low, and I know people will say it’s only football, but it genuinely felt like one of the lowest points of my life. Sleepless nights wondering if my boyhood club would be around in the morning. 
Football had become a worry rather than an enjoyment.

Enter Sharon and FV even under Keith Hill there was a little bit of optimism that we were in better hands, our youngest ever side made up of kids getting a 0-0 against professional opposition was an immense sense of pride.

Ian Evatt was a breath of fresh air, I didn’t know much about him (turns out I’ve been on a course at the same time as him, small world) The way he spoke was energetic, @Casino said he was like Rioch, he was right, he’s honest, open to make mistakes and learn from them. You believe what he says, full confidence in him all the time. 
 

Even the worst results under IE I still believed he was the right man, he just needed time and support. He got that in abundance from the board, and was trusted to bring the right players in. 

The football we are playing now, the buzz around the town, the unity with fans is the best it has been since BSA. 

Every single player from Santos To Maddison has played a role this season and I’m so so proud of them all it feels like that  Big Sam team, it feels like that promotion team.

This is a big day in our clubs history, we are almost there, ready to dip at the finish line and bring it home.

I have ever confidence that we will this afternoon.

I hope I get the chance to bump into Sharon one day and say thank you for saving my club I’ll never forget it 

Can’t be there today because of work but if you’re going down, be safe have fun and have a beer or two for me

THIS IS JUST THE BEGINNING 

COYFWM!

Nice story 

Trying my hardest to see all my patients before 3pm and hoping for no call outs! 

1 hour ago, Rudy said:

Vietnam 1970

I was in Mexico that year..

19 minutes ago, Mr Grey said:

Ring in sick, that'll show your patients 🤓

Its my last weekend before I can't be patient facing. Can't be a twat 😂

42 minutes ago, Rudy said:

Seeing us what seemed like minutes from going out of business was the lowest of the low, and I know people will say it’s only football, but it genuinely felt like one of the lowest points of my life. Sleepless nights wondering if my boyhood club would be around in the morning. 

This was the hardest, most difficult part. Most of my friends are liverpool, city and united,  they rarely go to games and just didn't get the anger and upset this caused. The constant questions of, who will you follow if you do go out of business and the surprise when I would just say BWFC of course. But this whole season has felt different, a corner well and truly turned and a club I fucking love to bits again.

Anyway no nervous, sleepless nights here. 7 pints and a bottle of pinot noir saw to that.

Just got to nurse my head to 3 o'clock.