WITH Wanderers going strong in their promotion bid, Norwich City felt the force of a potent forward line in an exciting top-of-the-table clash in Division Two at Burnden Park on February 27, 1965.

Wanderers 5 Norwich 2

“DEVASTATING Davies shows the way to victory” told the story of Wanderers’ emphatic victory over promotion rivals, Norwich at Burnden Park.

The mighty Wyn was rampant, scoring two first-half goals after Terry Anderson had put Norwich in front and set the stage for an exhilarating attacking performance that brought second half goals from Freddie Hill, Francis Lee and Gordon Taylor against a Bolland consolation for the Canaries, and left Bolton fans dreaming of an instant return to the First Division.

Steve Hodgson of Bradshaw recalls: “It was a great game to watch between two evenly-matched sides, who played some terrific open football. I remember towards the end a couple of Norwich fans behind us in the Burnden Stand saying that, although the scoreline suggested they’d been well and truly hammered, it was one of the best games they’d ever seen.”

It was a terrific team performance but Davies, whose second goal was one of his trademark headers, was the star of the show.

Bolton Evening News correspondent, Haydn Berry, wrote: “It was mainly this Davies fellow, raging round like some infuriated bullock among stampeding cows. Norwich defenders could do little with him.

“There was nobody to tame the fiery Welshman.”

The Bolton team that played in front of a sparse crowd of 13,958 that February afternoon, was: Hopkinson; Hartle, Farrimond; Rimmer, Edwards, Hatton; Lee, Hill, Davies, Bromley, Taylor.

BEN man Berry suggested the stayaways had missed a treat and advise them “not to under-rate League football spiced with promotion urgency” and suggested that, on this form and with seven more home games, Wanderers could even bounce back at the first attempt.