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From The Bolton News archives: Cahill lauds travelling support after crucial win

6:00pm Thursday 18th April 2013

5 YEARS AGO GARY

Ton-up Whatmore boosts Wanderers survival hopes

9:50am Thursday 7th April 2011

30 YEARS AGO: AFTER weeks of anxiety, Bolton Wanderers were starting to look a safe bet for Division Two survival after a 3-2 win at Cambridge United.

Sporting Memories

9:30am Thursday 24th March 2011

10 YEARS AGO FOR once, time ran out on Wanderers when they failed to beat the transfer deadline in their ambitious bid to sign Senegal international Djibril Diawara on loan from Torino.

Blues finally lure Bell away from the Shakers

9:40am Friday 18th March 2011

45 YEARS AGO AFTER months of denying they were ready to sell Colin Bell and insisting, specifically, that they would not be doing any business with Manchester City, Bury buckled at the 11th hour and sold Bell . . . to City.

Sporting Memories: Big Sam in the frame to take over England job

9:20am Thursday 10th March 2011

FIVE YEARS AGO: THE whole affair was being conducted under a veil of secrecy but no one at the Reebok Stadium or the Football Association was denying widespread reports that Sam Allardyce had been interviewed for the England manager’s job.

Sporting Memories: Fans vent fury after derby shame

6:20pm Thursday 3rd March 2011

15 Years Ago THEY had been ridiculed as a laughing stock, contemptuously dismissed as whipping boys and were smarting after a humiliating 6-0 thrashing at the hands of Manchester United.

SPORTING MEMORIES

4:20pm Thursday 24th February 2011

20 Years Ago KENNY Dalglish dropped a king-sized bombshell by retiring as manager of Liverpool.

Sam ready to turf out worrying pitch

9:20am Thursday 10th February 2011

10 YEARS AGO: Sam Allardyce was the latest victim of the curse of the Manager of the Month award.

Sporting Memories: Busby’s United make hard work of beating Benfica

7:00pm Thursday 3rd February 2011

45 Years Ago MANCHESTER United’s hopes of a place in the last four of the European Cup were hanging in the balance after they beat Benfica 3-2 at Old Trafford in the first leg of a quarter-final that had the pulses racing.

Looking Back

3:00pm Thursday 27th January 2011

25 Years Ago LITTLE more than a month after arriving at Burnden Park as Wanderers’ player-manager, Phil Neal decided to take a look at the situation from the sidelines instead of from the heart of the defence – and saw Tony Caldwell, Graham Bell and George Oghani score in a 3-1 beating of title-chasing Walsall.

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