SHOULD Wanderers collect a fourth straight win against Fleetwood tomorrow they will match their best start to the season for 82 years.

Bolton were a Second Division side under the stewardship of Charles Foweraker when they recorded SEVEN straight wins from the opening day in 1934, including two over Manchester United.

Phil Parkinson’s team aim to make it four out of four at the Macron, something they have only managed twice before in the club’s history – in 1904 and 1891.

Wednesday’s win against Bristol Rovers equalled the achievement of Sam Allardyce’s Premier League new boys in 2001, where a 5-0 win over Leicester City teed up further victories over Middlesbrough and Liverpool. And it put them to the top of a third tier table for the first time since Jimmy Armfield’s team were promoted as champions in 1973.

Wanderers fans haven’t grown accustomed to seeing their side lead the way in recent years, in fact in the last 20 years they have only witnessed it on nine occasions.

Since the Whites stormed into the Premier League under Colin Todd in 1997, leading from the front most of the way, the club has spent just over two months at the summit, all of which were in the Premier League.

At the start of the 2001/2 campaign Allardyce’s side spent a total of six weeks on top of the pile between August and September. Wanderers then briefly led the way in 2004 after a memorable 4-1 win over Charlton.

Gary Megson also had a week in the sun after a 3-1 win over Stoke City onn the opening day in 2008, likewise Owen Coyle’s team who hammered QPR 4-0 at Loftus Road in 2011/12 – but their season was to end in relegation.