Bolton Wanderers F.C.

Bolton Wanderers (BWFC) are now established as a Premiership football team, in the English top division. As founder members of the football league, the club is steeped in history. Originally formed as Christ Church FC, the club later gained the name Bolton Wanderers (Wanderers apparently because of an inability to find a regular ground in the early days although I can't confirm this). The club are nicknamed "the trotters" although the origin of the nickname is unclear but various stories include that the clubs training ground used to be next to a piggery and the players had to "trot" round to get the ball when it went over the fence. The ...  Read the complete review

Since a quick perusal of this category showed me that almost all the reviews at the top of the list are about the football team, that it would be of use to someone (dont know who but never mind) to add one which focusses on the town itself. Bolton is a town which was until the recently and to a degree still is an industrial town. The industry as with so many northern towns was cotton, here in Bolton there were literally hundreds of cotton mills and associated trades, evdience for which can be seen in the common local names (Weavers, Walkers for example), and in the buildings of the town, many large Mill's still litter the town, many are now used as warehouses ...  Read the complete review

Bolton Wanderers FC remind me of yo-yos. They go up and down. This club can either be found battling at the top of the table, in Division 1 or fighting for their lives, at the bottom of the Premiership. People were extremely suprised when, at the beginning of the season, Sam Allardyce managed to keep his club at the top of the Premiership for a few weeks. This was definately what Bolton needed. That small boost helped them to claw their way through the rest of the season. Now Sam will be looking for new players. There is no doubt that he will be closely watching the world cup, keeping an eye out for new talent. I think that Bolton, as a team, are ...  Read the complete review

Bolton Wanderers Football Club was originally known as Christ Church when they were formed in 1874. They were one of the twelve founder members of the Football League when it was first established. After short spells at The Park Recreation Ground, Cockles Field and Pikes Lane, the Wanderers settled at Burnden Park which was to be their home for 102 years. They moved to Reebok Stadium in 1997. The Reebok Stadium was built at a cost of £35million. Bolton have been a team that have experienced many ups and down in their long and illustrious history. More recent events have seen them being promoted to the Premier League in 1995 but being relegated at the ...  Read the complete review

When Bolton were promoted to the premiership they were immediately written off as going straight back down, whether thats true or not remains to be seen, but at least they have come up to the bigtime to actually do something! They have loyal fans a good stadium some very good players (maybe not world stars but still good) and they have a youth policy which is amazing. When they started this season they had nothing to lose and played better than any team in the league and were justly sitting at the top of the premiership, obviously like any smaller team it's impossible to maintain these heights without having the depth of squad Manchester utd or Arsenal do. ...  Read the complete review