A DEFIANT Phil Parkinson believes he will kept on as Wanderers’ manager despite their wretched start to the Championship season.

A narrow defeat at Aston Villa marked the Whites’ worst start to a campaign in 115 years and left them seven points from safety at the foot of the table.

Asked after the game whether he had the support from chairman and owner Ken Anderson to keep his job, the Bolton boss answered: “Yes definitely – I totally understand why you’ve asked the question, but yes I do.”

Wanderers have now gone more than 12 hours of football without a goal but came so close to snatching a late equaliser at Villa Park when Gary Madine’s late effort was scrambled off the line by sub Chris Samba.

In the end, Jonathan Kodjia’s penalty was the deciding factor, leaving Parkinson – not for the first time this season – feeling his team had been unfortunate.

The Whites boss feels it is only a matter of time before his team’s results turn for the better.

“All I can say, and you’ve seen it yourself, we have played well against a very good side,” he said. “We played very well and had enough moments to take something from the game but I am confident we will eventually.

“It’s frustrating when you don’t win but you have to take something from performance levels. We’ve come here against Aston Villa, a multi-million pound team, and taken them all the way. We should have got something from the game, we really should.

“I am confident we will get results soon, I keep saying that, I know. And it’s frustrating when things are not quite going our way. I don’t think there was a lot wrong with the way we played.

“We would have been talking about a very, very good away performance If that one isn’t blocked on the line. That’s the tight margin between losing, drawing and winning.”

Wanderers have only once ever waited 11 games for their opening win of the season, and that was in 1902/03.