LET there be light – Wanderers chalked up their first victory under Burnden Park’s new floodlights on this week in 1957.

A week earlier, Whites chairman Harry Warburton had thrown the switch before the team played out a 1-1 draw against Hearts in front of a crowd of 21,058.

But the first evening win was gained against a touring Russian Army side, CDSA Moscow, with 34,139 turning out to see Bolton score three unanswered goals.

Kevin Davies scored twice as Owen Coyle’s Wanderers went sixth in the Premier League with a 4-2 victory over Tottenham on this week in 2010.

Gretar Steinsson also got on the scoresheet – marshalling a young Gareth Bale in the process – before Alan Hutton and Roman Pavlyuchenko set up a nervous finale. Martin Petrov settled matters from the penalty spot.

It was a very different story in 2002, as Sam Allardyce’s side remained rooted to the bottom of the table after a 3-1 defeat at Birmingham.

Ricardo Gardner was sent off at St Andrew’s but Wanderers looked like snatching a point when Jay Jay Okocha levelled Darren Purse’s opener.

Robbie Savage restored the lead a minute later before Geoff Horsefield completed the scoring.

On November 5, 1949, Wanderers’ players were introduced on the pitch to the hugely-decorated war officer Bernard “Monty” Montgomery the First Viscount Montgomery of Alamein. Nicknamed “The Spartan General” – he met the players before a game against Newcastle United, which finished 2-2.

Forty-five years earlier Wanderers beat Gainsborough Trinity 5-1 with two goals from Walter White. It’s probably not the same one, though...