Wednesday, August 1, 2007

Bolton Wanderers Season Preview


And they have a very weird looking emblem too.

After that Dramatic departure of Sam Allardyce, we will witness the start of a new era. The Sammy Lee era.

I know Sammy Lee, no not in person. He was a coach from Liverpool a couple of years ago. And I think he is actually quite a good coach. But as a manager of Bolton? I'm very sure, Sammy will not surprise us this season, and is in contention to be one of the first managers to be sacked. I'll be surprise if he's still in office by January.

Bolton, I see it as a very difficult side to manage. Sam Allardyce has done miracles with this team. Working on a budget fit for a relegation fighting side, he made Bolton stand out. Of course by using boring tactics, set pieces, and players that are desperate to build up on their retirement funds.

The team does have a couple of quality players like Nicolas Anelka, Kevin Nolan and Kevin Davis. Quality players, but like it or not, the other pieces of the Bolton Puzzles are made up of rejects. Okay, fine, Gary Speed is important too.

Perhaps the only brightside, is the incoming of Swedish winger Christian Wilhelmsson, on loan. believe he has the pace to cope in the Premier League, and my friends, heavy shoulders for him this season.

How will they do this time?

Working too hard finding themselves flirting with the bottom 3. Unless a major change happen, this is how it's going to be.