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, Wanderers media man 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.

We have shortlisted the manager, goalkeeper, defenders and midfielders – now it’s the turn of the strikers. Three places are up for grabs, plus one substitute spot.

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JOHN MCGINLAY

A charismatic Scot who bagged 118 goals in 245 appearances for Wanderers, leading the line during Bruce Rioch’s White Hot era and then Colin Todd’s record breaking return to the Premier League.

Costing £120,000 from Millwall, the striker had been a journeyman until his arrival at Bolton but forged memorable partnerships with Andy Walker and Nathan Blake to become a true cult hero.

FRANNY LEE

Few Wanderers front men can match the ever-controversial Lee’s return of 106 goals in 210 games in an eventful eight-year spell at Burnden.

Deadly from the penalty spot, he left after scoring in seven consecutive games to play for Manchester City in September 1967.

NAT LOFTHOUSE

Lofty achieved a level of notoriety across the land few Bolton Wanderers players have ever managed.

A one club man, he made his debut in March 1941 and went on to win 33 England caps, scoring 30 goals, and earning the nickname “The Lion of Vienna” for a heroic performance against Austria.

Synonymous with Burnden, he won the FA Cup in 1958 and made 503 appearances, scoring 285 goals. He passed away in January 2011.

DAVID JACK

Scored the first-ever goal in a Wembley cup final, as Wanderers beat West Ham in 1923 and also scored the winner three years later against Manchester City.

Capped four times by England, he scored 161 goals in 324 games for Bolton and joined Arsenal for a record fee of £10,750 in October 1928. He passed away in September 1958.

FRANK WORTHINGTON

Mercurial, flamboyant, the swaggering Worthington is best remembered at Bolton for ‘that’ goal against Ipswich Town, or perhaps the one that sealed promotion to the First Division at Blackburn a few months earlier in 1978.

His Wanderers career lasted just two full seasons, 92 games, and he scored 38 goals – finishing as the top scorer in the top flight too.

NEIL WHATMORE

After breaking through in the promotion side of 1973, Whatmore became a terrace hero under Ian Greaves, helping fire them back into the top flight.

The home-grown striker came back on three occasions after signing for Birmingham for £340,000 in 1981 and was on the club’s books in all four divisions. His enviable record reads 338 appearances and 121 goals.

ANDY WALKER

The graceful yin to John McGinlay’s fiery yang – Walker was another Scot who fired up the White Hot revolution in the early 90s.

Signing for £160,000 after a successful loan, he bolstered Bruce Rioch’s promotion charge in 1992 and starred in some of the FA Cup giant-killings of the time, going on to score 55 goals in just 87 games in the next two years.

JOE SMITH

Smith’s incredible return of 277 goals in 492 games make him one of Wanderers’ most prolific strikers of all time.

He lifted the 1923 and 1926 FA Cups as captain and made five appearances for England, his international career curtailed by the war. Smith passed away in August 1971.

WILLIE MOIR

Aberdeen-born front man capable of playing in a number of forward roles, Moir scored 134 goals in 358 games in a 12-year career at Burnden.

He won just one Scotland cap, playing most of his Wanderers career as an outside left, and captained the side in the 1953 FA Cup final defeat to Blackpool.

He passed away in May, 1988.

JOHN BYROM

Another swashbuckling Burnden hero of the seventies who seemed to keep scoring despite Wanderers’ problems.

Byrom’s record reads 130 goals from 351 games and he topped the magical 20-mark on three separate occasions, including 1972/73 as Jimmy Armfield’s side won promotion from Division Three.

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.