Column: Away Daze
Our intrepid reporters go behind enemy lines so you don't have to.
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Thrown to the Wolves.
In the film The Vikings, Ernest Borgnine roars defiance as he jumps to his death, sword in hand, into a pit of wolves. Can’t watch it now without mentally seeing a bearded John McGinlay in the part. Of course, Super John would have walked out alive after giving...
A Partial Lifting of the Curse
Wanderers’ away record in games I’ve attended is shocking. In fact amongst my friends its becoming well known that if I can make it to an away game then it’s almost certain that their afternoon is going to be ruined. I’ve seen Bolton win away from home just three times;...
Unrequited Hate
“You can tell we’re in Wigan, look at all the slag heaps” said my Dad once as we passed through the blighted post-industrial Lancashire phantom zone en route to Southport. At least that’s what I think he said. He might have left the word ‘heaps’ off. It may only be...
Pawns at the Hawthorns
When pundits get sufficiently too far up their waste-chutes, they can sometimes be heard to remark that "football is like a game of chess". Even the highest-profile managers can be prone to this preposterous notion. In May 2009, Sir Alex Ferguson remarked, "Football is like chess, lose your focus and...
Why Did We Get Rid of Danny Shittu?
It was only right that in a month of papal visits that one of the bible’s oft-used character’s was wheeled out onto the bedsheets of Burnley – and Coyle must have wished he’d had his own Popemobile by the end of this 3rd round tie at Turf Moor. Coyle for...
Tripes Mangeant des Gangsters
Well there’s a bullet dodged. It appeared that the Curse of Bolton was about to strike again. You know the one – where teams on a losing streak break their duck by playing us, where a manager under pressure gets a reprieve by playing us, where a new manager gets...
All According to the Script
Stand back and count to ten, I'm sure supporting Bolton upsets you as much as it does me. I was tempted to grab a pen and scrawl the match report on the stroke of full-time. Instead I went away, cooked dinner, let the booze settle and let the red mist...
They’re Great, are Arsenal
I always love playing Arsenal. I love the way they play football the right way. I love their ground (I used to love Highbury). I loved Thierry Henry rampaging forward and scattering defenders like ninepins. I love the fact they went a whole season (49 league games in all) without...
Poetic Justice
The build-up for this game has always been fun. John Masefield once penned a poem to anticipate the match. He called it "Cargoes". The first verse describes the fancy and gloriously exotic splendour of the good ship West Ham, a fine-masted vessel full of heady promise.... QUINQUIREME of Nineveh from...
Taylor Made for Safety
A fine sunny day, a splendid afternoon’s football and a chance to watch the Wanderers outclass Stoke on their way to an easy three points? Well, one out of three is acceptable… Things were always going to be tough from the moment we arrived. Not knowing Stoke, our pubs had been...
