Arrogant scousers.

[ReebokTrotter]

Being a paper boy I get the chance to peruse the daily's before I begin my round. I was furious at reading the article in today's Daily Mail about how ' Only a handful of people want to watch Bolton'.

The arrogant CEO of Liverpool is talking about Liverpool negotiating their own overseas television rights. The arrogant prick fails to mention that Liverpool have won sod all for a number of years but slags us off for having no fans abroad who want to watch us play.

When Stelios played for us we had a big following in Greece. Likewise Jay Jay Okocha, Hierro, Campo, Anelka, Djorkaeff, etc etc all raised our profile in their home countries.

Judging by the number of Koreans lurking around the Reebok I would suspect that we have a decent following in South Korea and if it is true that Tuncay is the Turkish David Beckham then it stands to reason that we must have some followers in Turkey as well.

We have a modern stadium fit for purpose whereas Liverpool are desperate to find a new home.  Their CEO is a total ponce.

[DaveBWFC]

I read the same story earlier. It was in the Sun or Daily Star though.

Another reason to hope they carry on winning fúck all.

[bwfcolinh58]

the arrognce is baffling, they wont watch them with no opposition.....

[ReebokTrotter]

the arrognce is baffling, they wont watch them with no opposition.....

Exactly.

[aarons2009]

I haven't read the article but was it aimed at bolton wanderers itself or other clubs in the league?

Either way I fcuking hate liverpool football club and how a club can be so arrogant after last winning the league god knows how many years ago is just mind boggling.

Liverpool remind me a bit of how Leeds look at themselves as a club who should always be challenging for the premier league even though they have a shíte team and have been stook in the lower leagues for a few years.

[Natasha Whittam]

I can see where this chap is coming from.

If they were about to make Burnden Aces into a tv programme and someone said I had to share the proceeds equally with Le God and sluffy I'd be bloody pissed off.

[DaveBWFC]

I haven't read the article but was it aimed at bolton wanderers itself or other clubs in the league?

It was us who he mentioned.

[Squidgy]

Our prowess on the field aside, I would love some of these rich prick owners to walk away from some of these 'bigger' clubs and watch the 'loyal' players they know and love leave the likes of Anfield like rats off a sinking ship when they can't meet their wage demands.

I'm no football financial expert, but I think some of these glory fans have no idea how fragile their finances are and how little their 'star' players really think of them.

[ReebokTrotter]

This is what the prick said.

' What is absolutely certain is that, with the greatest of respect to our colleagues in the Premier League, if your'e a Bolton fan in Bolton, then you subscribe to Sky because you want to watch Bolton. Everyone gets that. Likewise, if your'e a Liverpool fan from Liverpool, you subscribe. But if your'e in Kuala Lumpur there isn't anyone subscribing to Astro or ESPN to watch Bolton. If they are, it's a small number. The majority are subscribing as they want to watch Liverpool, Manchester United, Chelsea or Arsenal'.

How the FCUK does the pompous nincompoop know how many subscribers we have who live abroad ? Notice how he includes  Liverpool with Utd, Chelsea and Arsenal as if Liverpool are part of the big Cartel.

They are not even a top four side at the moment and haven't been for some time. Let's see if their American owners come up with the money for a new stadium. They prostituted themselves to Gillette and Hicks and then went blabbing to all and sundry about how the Yanks had sold them down the river.

Big egos and small memories. A recipe for failure.

[bwfcbob123]

But if your'e in Kuala Lumpur there isn't anyone subscribing to Astro or ESPN to watch Bolton.

How does he know? Is he fu(king psychic or something? I'm going to get my whole family to emigrate to Kuala Lumpar and subscribe to ESPN, just to prove the (unt wrong!

[ReebokTrotter]

I was talking to Chung Yong Lee's manager at Norton Canes motorway services last season and he was telling me that Lee is a big star in South Korea and that the two teams that most South Koreans who can afford subscriptions,  watch, are Utd ( Park ) and Bolton ( Lee ).

I know that a lot of Greeks watched Bolton when Stelios played for us as well.

[Squidgy]

I was talking to Chung Yong Lee's manager at Norton Canes motorway services last season and he was telling me that Lee is a big star in South Korea and that the two teams that most South Koreans who can afford subscriptions,  watch, are Utd ( Park ) and Bolton ( Lee ).

I know that a lot of Greeks watched Bolton when Stelios played for us as well.

We just need a team of Chinese and the league is ours.

[ReebokTrotter]

China is definitely the biggest untapped market for sporting television revenue. That's why United are always pissing off on a far east tour at the first opportunity.

It isn't their national sport but if one quality player came out of China and signed for a Premier League team the TV subscriptions would go through the roof.

[traf]

Seriously though, a team like Man U / Chelsea etc could buy China's best player and sit him on the bench permanently: give him a run out every time the game was already safe and they'd make millions.

[ReebokTrotter]

Seriously though, a team like Man U / Chelsea etc could buy China's best player and sit him on the bench permanently: give him a run out every time the game was already safe and they'd make millions.

I have often wondered why that has not happened.

[Rivals_Refugee]

Because the average annual wage in China is about £6500.

[ReebokTrotter]

I reckon their Sky subscriptions are cheaper than ours.

[Squidgy]

This is a 'nothing' article and doesn't really prove any points, but I like it:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2048402/Bolton-Wanderers-A-history-lesson.html

[bwfcolinh58]

I can see where this chap is coming from.

If they were about to make Burnden Aces into a tv programme and someone said I had to share the proceeds equally with Le God and sluffy I'd be bloody pissed off.

but without the posters , there would be no burnden aces

[ReebokTrotter]

Dave Whelan has been having a go at Liverpool today over their proposals. Good for him. He sees this for what it is.

[Squidgy]

I hope they do break away.

This has spectacular failure written all over it.

The club and it's fans can dissapear further up their own bum holes - they won't be missed.

[Keegan]

David Jack scored Bolton’s opener at Wembley, the first man to score at the stadium. He was born in Bolton and when the club sold him to Arsenal in 1928 it was for a world-record fee of £10,000.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2048402/Bolton-Wanderers-A-history-lesson.html#ixzz1afaqSHVQ

Someone should show this to Wenger - you know, the whole 'Arsenal bought a Bolton player for a world-record fee' thing. Not the £10,000 part.

[Squidgy]

Someone should show this to Wenger - you know, the whole 'Arsenal bought a Bolton player for a world-record fee' thing. Not the £10,000 part.

Apparently that sale started something of a longterm downturn in Bolton's fortunes and pretty much made Arsenal over the following years

[Sluffy]

Did anyone read about this transfer - another one we famously cocked up!

...the Herbert Chapman guide to transfer dealing.

The man who established the legend of Arsenal as a club of integrity once summoned the then secretary Bob Wall to his office and said he was going to show him how to conduct a transfer; one that turned out to be the first five- figure deal in the English game. It was 1928 and Chapman had agreed to meet the manager and chairman of Bolton Wanderers at the Euston Hotel to discuss the purchase of David Jack. Bolton wanted £13,000.

"We arrived at the hotel half an hour before our appointment," Wall recalled in his book Arsenal from the Heart. "Chapman immediately went into the lounge bar. He called the waiter, placed two pound notes in his hand and said: `George, this is Mr Wall, my assistant. He will drink whisky and dry ginger. I will drink gin and tonic. We shall be joined by guests. They will drink whatever they like. But I want you to be careful of one thing. See that our guests are given double of everything, but Mr Wall's whisky and dry ginger will contain no whisky and my gin and tonic will contain no gin'.

"When the Bolton pair arrived, Chapman ordered the drinks. We quickly downed ours and he called for the same again. The drinks continued to flow and our friends were soon in a gay mood. Finally, when Chapman decided the time was opportune for talking business, they readily agreed to letting him sign Jack - and for £10,890, which we considered a bargain."

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/how-legend-was-turned-into-myth--football-1574907.html

[ReebokTrotter]

The drinks continued to flow and our friends were soon in a gay mood.

I heard a similar thing happened with Cloughie and Peter Taylor when they signed Justin Fashanu.