NEXT year will be the 20th anniversary of Wanderers’ move from their spiritual home at Burnden Park and to mark the occasion we want you to pick the best all-time XI to play there from a shortlist chosen by our panel of experts.

HUNDREDS of Wanderers fans submitted their all-time Burnden XIs to us in the last few weeks via post and email – but we needed a panel of experts to whittle them down.

After compiling all the nominations into a long list, The Bolton News’ chief football writer Marc Iles sat down with three judges to compile a shortlist for each position.

This survey is now closed. The results will be published in a special Bolton News supplement in the New Year ​

Wanderers club secretary, official historian and author Simon Marland, media guru and lifelong fan Paul Holliday and lotteries manager Andrew ‘Mr Bolton’ Dean argued long and hard over the names who would make the final list, which will be voted on by fans.

After the manager and goalkeeper, we now focus on the defence. Four places, and one substitute spot, are up for grabs.

PAUL JONES
The best English defender never to get an international call-up? Wanderers fans certainly think so. 
Ellesmere Port-born Jones made his debut aged 17 and helped Jimmy Armfield’s side to promotion from Division Three. He was selected in an England squad by Don Revie but never got a game – but at Burnden he was king, and helped Ian Greaves side to promotion in 1977/78.

GUDNI BERGSSON
Icelander who made his debut in the 1995 League Cup final defeat to Liverpool and played in the play-off final win over Reading a few weeks later. Helped Wanderers back into the top flight in 1997 and then again under Sam Allardyce in 2001.
Costing just £65,000, he is regarded as one of the best bargain buys the whites have ever made, making 317 appearances, scoring 27 goals.

ROY HARTLE
Classy but rugged full-back who somehow never won England honours but played 499 times for Wanderers between January 1953 and March 1966.
Hartle played in the 1953 and 1958 FA Cup final, never representing another professional club. He passed away in November 2014 and has a lounge named in his honour at the Macron Stadium. 

TOMMY BANKS
Farnworth-born full-back whose notoriously uncompromising approach made him the scourge of the best wingers in the land.
Capped six times by Engand, Banks played at the 1958 World Cup and made 255 appearances for Wanderers between May 1948 and January 1961.

WARWICK RIMMER
Only two other outfield players have made more appearances than the tough-tackling Birkenhead-boy Rimmer, who captained the club and played in three different divisions at Burnden Park. 
Arguably the high point of his Bolton career was the Third Division championship under Jimmy Armfield. He played 528 times, scoring seven goals between October 1960 and December 1974. 

JIMMY SEDDON
Bolton-born centre-half who fought in the war before going on to win three FA Cup winner’s medals and six England caps.
Seddon made 375 appearances for Wanderers between February 1914 and January 1932, captaining the club to success against Portsmouth at Wembley in 1929. He passed away in October 1971.

MALCOLM BARRASS
Versatile defender who played three times for England and represented Wanderers in the 1953 FA Cup final defeat to Blackpool.
Turned down Wolves to sign with the Whites, playing wartime football and making 357 appearances in total, scoring 27 goals, before signing for Sheffield United in 1956. He passed away in August 2013.

HARRY GOSLIN
On April 8, 1939, Goslin spoke to the Burnden crowd as captain of the club to tell them the Wanderers team would be signing up for military duty. He lost his life in battle after a bomb explosion near his post in Italy on December 18, 1943.
Goslin played 334 times for Bolton, scoring 23 goals, and also earned representative honours for the British Army and England’s wartime team.

ALAN STUBBS
Stylish centre-half who came through Wanderers’ youth ranks to make his debut in September 1990, going on to become a vital part of the subsequent success under Bruce Rioch. 
He played 266 times for Bolton, scoring 15 goals, before leaving for Celtic in a £3.5million deal in July 1996.

SYD FARRIMOND
Took on the left-back mantle from Tommy Banks and became one of Wanderers’ true stalwarts, making 404 appearances and scoring one goal.
Farrimond won England youth honours and was a regular in the Whites line-up for 13 years.

You can also vote by post to: c/o Marc Iles, The Bolton News, The Wellsprings, Civic Centre, Bolton BL1 1AR 

All submissions must reach us by noon on Friday, December 9.