Hi all,
just thought I should do the honest thing and do what the all-powerful moderators say I should and announce myself here. I've already had a PM asking if the licence plate in my avatar is really mine, and yes it is! I'm in Nashville, Tennessee, and I'm pretty sure that no-one here has any idea of what a BWFC is - except for all my mates, who know I'm something of a Bolton nutter - being from 'near manchester' anyone who knows what football is immediately asks me about ManU..... Now that gets my back up!

Chris

Welcome, Chris. I doubt there are too many BWFC vanity plates knocking around anywhere in North America.

Welcome, dude. How long you been Stateside? We've got a few over yonder.

Feel free to have dip yer toe in the water by explaining in here how you feel in love with the beautiful awful wonderful horror that is BWFC.

DSB

Well let's see. I went to my first Bolton game with my Dad when I was 7 (so that'd be ~1972)- sitting in the Burnden Stand. Best memory of Burnden would be Big Sam's header against Sunderland (was that with a crowd of 60,000?). We had season tickets there plus some 'occasional' tickets over the other side in the Manny Road stand, which meant that the whole family got to go to most if not all of the games. That lasted all the way to Uni, through the highs and lows that come with supporting Bolton.
At Uni in Bristol, that limited the number of games I got to, but at least at that time Bolton were in the same division as Bristols City and Rovers... OF course it also meant that I got to endure a coach trip with Bristol City fans to and from the Freight Rover final. Moved to London which meant that I got some relief at the Sherpa Van Final against Torquay though....
I've now been in the states for 19 years, and all Christmas and other return trips are preceded by checking out the fixture list of course! Over here, there are usually 2-3 prem games shown live, and I'm sure Bolton are shown the least frequently - but they are on twice this month, which makes up for their non-appearance the last couple of months. All I can say is god bless the internet - watching a stream of iraqi tv on a russian website in the US maybe painful but it got me the Spurs game last weekend!

Welcome fella!

I've always fancied a trip to Nashville in the hope that there's loads of roots Bluegrass players over there... I fear it strays into LeAnne Rimes territory though.

Anyway, get stuck in on them boards!

Welcome

If only we could get plates like that in Blighty...






...then some bugger with more money than me would probably have 'em.

Chickaree pom come with me, down to Nashville Tennessee. Welcome aboard.

Yeah, another ex-pat! G'day, Chris. As you are a self-described-lurker-now-a-legitimate-member, you'll be well aware of the absolute mayhem that occurs on this forum from time-to-time. There is, they tell me, a fine line between genius and madness - and that statement is proved beyond doubt by the postings to be found on this site.

Sorry about all the hyphens; I have decided my keyboard is not getting the use that it should; next week it'll be semi-colons.

big welcome... I remember nightmare trips to bristol city away and slightly less scarey, but hardly more productive in points, to rovers... did you ever see them win? Best I've managed at either was a 0-0 at city and a 1-1 at rovers... always fun to travel with me, obviously...

welcome to the site...

Great intro NW.
Hello and welcome. Enjoy the site.

Welcome, just to let you knoe your view counts for nothing

That's just you, pal.

Welcome aboard NW!

My Fiancee has ** 3WFC for her number plate in the UK.... Looks good!

The plate or your fiancee?

Ermmm..... The Fiancee of course.....

Is the (politically) correct answer!

Welcome to the forum

Welcome NW :- a fan with pedigree, age and insight enough to make sense of my members name!