Archive for August, 2006

Away to Charlton Athletic

Monday, August 28th, 2006

Charlton Athletic 2 - 0 Bolton Wanderers
Ground: The Valley | Attendance: 23,638 | Referee: Mike Dean

[58] Diouf (penalty miss) - Bolton
[65] Bent (penalty) - Charlton
[85] Bent - Charlton

From Victory to Stone
The Skids (remember them?) did a song called ‘Into The Valley’ from which the above lyric comes. This line seems apt as Bolton have once […]

Away to Fulham

Thursday, August 24th, 2006

Fulham 1 - 1 Bolton Wanderers
Ground: Craven Cottage | Attendance: 18,559 | Referee: Alan Wiley

[73] Diouf - Bolton
[90] Bullard - Fulham

El-Hadji Diouf scored from the penalty spot after Gary Speed was judged to have been fouled by Fulham’s Luis Boa Morte late on in what was a fairly neutral and dull match up to then. […]

Anelka Hopes of Return to Prem (Updated)

Tuesday, August 22nd, 2006

Nicolas Anelka claimed to be joining Bolton Wanderers yesterday telling the French sports paper L’Equipe:
“My wish is to return to the Premier League and it could materialise soon. I have an agreement with Bolton on the basis of a four-year contract. I hope everything will be finalised early next week.”
The has been speculation about Anelka […]

Jared Borgetti’s Off to the Middle East

Monday, August 21st, 2006

Jared Borgetti has signed a one year deal for Jeddah based club Al Ittihad after spending time with the squad on a training camp in France. Borgetti had to make himself comfortable on the subs bench more often than not and that is obviously not where he wanted to spend his second season at The […]

Postmatch Review - Home to Tottenham Hotspurs

Sunday, August 20th, 2006

Bolton Wanderers 2 - 0 Tottenham
Ground: Reebok Stadium | Attendance: 22,899 | Referee: Phil Dowd

[09] Davies - Bolton
[13] Campo - Bolton

The Trotters cantered into the new season with a comfortable and outstanding win over Tottenham Hotspurs. Bolton showed that they could work well as a team, even with new signings, Quinton Fortune and Abdoulaye Meite, […]

Season Preview : Trouble Ahead?

Friday, August 18th, 2006

What indicators can be used to predict Bolton’s success, or lack of, in the forthcoming season? Past performance (obviously), summer transfers in and out, preseason preparation. First of all let’s take a look at the results of the preseason friendlies.

2006 Pre Season Results

Burnley
2 - 1
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Rangers
1 - 1
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Derby County
2 - 0
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Huelva
3 - 2
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Sevilla
3 - 0
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1 - […]