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, chief football writer Marc Iles sat down with three judges to compile a shortlist for each position in our fantasy team.

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, communications chief 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 via The Bolton News’ website.

After voting began on the all-time best Burnden Park manager yesterday, this time it is the turn of the goalkeepers.

DICK PYM
When the Devonshire-born ‘Topsham Fisherman’ arrived at Bolton Wanderers in 1921 costing the princely sum of £5,000, he was the most expensive goalkeeper in British football and a new club record signing at Burnden Park.
Wounded in action during the World War, he had already made nearly 200 appearances for Exeter City before moving to the North West and making his debut in a 2-2 home draw with Preston North End.
Pym played in, and won, three FA Cup finals with Wanderers and did not concede a single goal. He also earned three England caps.
In 1923 he kept goal in the famous White Horse Final victory over West Ham, returning to Wembley three years later as Wanderers beat Manchester City 1-0. Then in 1929, despite having missed the whole of April through injury, he returned to claim a hat-trick of medals in the 2-0 win over Portsmouth.
Pym made more than 300 appearances for Bolton before returning home and making a living in the deep sea fishing industry. His fame continued, however, and he was also the advertising face of Sunripe Cigarettes!
He scouted for Wanderers in the 1950s and when he died in 1988, was the longest-living former England international.

EDDIE HOPKINSON
“Hoppy” played 578 times for Wanderers, won all of his 14 England caps at the club and played at the 1958 World Cup finals.
Joining Bolton in 1952 after a stint as an amateur at Oldham Athletic, Hopkinson waited nearly four years to make his debut. At just 5ft 9ins he was not a tall keeper – but quickly made a name for himself and after earning England youth honours won a senior call-up in a 4-0 win against Wales in 1957.
He was in goal as Bill Ridding’s Whites beat Manchester United in the 1958 FA Cup final and remained with the club as their star started to fade in the years thereafter.
Injury forced him to retire in 1969 after which he became a trainer at Burnden and was also granted a testimonial featuring Portuguese legend Eusebio. 
Hoppy also coached at Wanderers in the late seventies and also did hospitality in the early days at the Reebok before passing away in April 2004.

KEITH BRANAGAN
At 2-0 down, Branagan’s penalty save from Stuart Lovell in the 1995 play-off final may have been a turning point in the modern-day history of Bolton Wanderers.
The Londoner achieved plenty more in a Bolton shirt, playing 263 times in three different divisions for the club.
Signed from Millwall on a free by Bruce Rioch, Branagan was ever-present as Wanderers gained promotion to Division One. He appeared in the Coca Cola Cup final in 1995 – a few weeks before returning to Wembley to make ‘that’ save.
He played in the top flight and then helped Colin Todd’s side bounce straight back from relegation – winning his one and only international cap for Ireland the same season.
Once again Branagan proved his worth in the Premier League after the move to the Reebok – but the arrival of Jussi Jasskelainen the following year, plus a mounting list of injury issues, made his place less secure.
He moved to Ipswich Town in the summer of 2000, retiring two years later. He has since coached at Wanderers’ academy and at Bolton School.

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.