WHEN the fixtures came out last summer we were ecstatic about the last game being away at Chelsea. We were so confident that we would be safe somewhere in the mid-table by then that we were not really worried about the result, we were just pleased not to have to travel another 500 mile round trip on the last day.

Well we may not be safe but we are certainly keeping the whole country entertained with the possibility of enforcing Everton's first relegation in 44 years.

So the best of luck to the team and everyone at the club. We've seen Bolton perform with such determination in the last two games, surely we can win again on Sunday. Please.

Judy Aldred

London Whites, London

Judy.Aldred@lasmo.com

We'll be cheering you on at the Bridge for the final instalment of 'The Great Escape' - good luck.

Dave & Carol, Stockport

Greetings from two Leeds United fans, wishing Bolton Wanderers continued Premiership football next season!

Andy & Gill ( Otley Leeds )

andrew@november.pass.theplanet.co.uk

With 45 plus years experience as a Bolton Wanderers fan I have watched as management and staff failed to adapt to new conditions. The present organisation, however, has done wonders and deserve all credit for taking the club public and building the new Reebok stadium complex. Now I would like to see management seize another initiative.

Staying up in the premier division has to be worth at least a million pounds to the shareholders and everybody concerned with the club. If the team beats Chelsea next Sunday they will stay up. Otherwise they will be dependent on what Everton can do. If BW beat Chelsea it's a sure thing. So I suggest that management consider promising the whole team a bonus if they beat Chelsea. It is a no loose situation. If they don't win it doesn't cost anything. If they win everybody wins. The bonus should be in the form of BW shares. If they win, the value of the shares will shoot up. The players benefit because their shares have gone up and each individual shareholder will be compensated for the dilution of their holding by the increase in value. The shares would be given to the players at the weekend price.

A more sophisticated bonus would be to give the players the option to buy BW shares at Friday's closing price if they beat Chelsea. This way it would cost BW no cash. This latter method is how software giant Microsoft has made thousands of its employees millionaires while paying them mediocre salaries. This income would be taxed as capital gain and be worth even more to the players.

In summary; each player would be promised the option to buy 250,000 BW shares at Friday's price if they beat Chelsea on Sunday. If they believe in themselves they will love the chance. And if they win the stock market effectively pays the bonus.

If you listen hard on Sunday you may be able to hear me cheering on my team all the way from Vancouver, Canada.

Martin Isherwood

misherwo@direct.ca

On behalf of all Bolton supporters in Australia (especially in Perth) . . . I would like to wish the "Wanderers" all the best this weekend against Chelsea.. .you can do it...I will be "online" waiting for the result on Sunday...I may even 'phone my sister to find out the score!!

Go for it...you deserve it!

Margaret Le Warne (Perth. W/Australia)

Margo@iinet.net.au

Come on you Whites!! Our destiny is in our own hands so let's get a win and make the Everton result irrelevant. Even Steve McQueen must be thinking that we can pull of the Great Escape!

Mahesh Patel

Videoconferencing Coordinator

Computer Centre

University of Wolverhampton

in5255@wlv.ac.uk

Come on you Whites and beat those Blues, we all know you can do an 'Italian job' at the Bridge !!

Steve, Lynda, Katy & Lewis Kesterton.

Milton Keynes Whites

SDKesterton@icaew.co.uk

Good Luck to the Whites on Sunday.

You can do it and we can go on to greater things.

The Staffordshire Wanderer

keith.browning@bt.com

To Bolton Wanderers: The only Superwhite Army. Good luck on Sunday and 'May the Force be with You'

John Readyhoff,

Los Angeles unofficial BW Supporters Club

JReadyhoff@aol.com

Thak you for the opportunity to support the Wanderers in their day of destiny. I have been a Wanderers supporter for as long as I can remember, over 50 years, and we have had our ups and downs over the years. Wembley 1953 and1958 are key dates when we where expected to win the first and lose the second but, Lady Luck had the last say. The saddest day was in 1964 when we were relegated from Divison One for the first time for many, many, years.

Since then we have regularly been yo-yoing around but not this time. Even my Everton supporter friends here in Hong Kong believe that they do not deserve to stay up and that Bolton do deserve and will survive this time. I have many Chinese friends and colleagues shouting for us and hopefully the match will be live here on TV, just as the Crystal Palace game was. With all my best wishes and prayers for another outstanding winning performance,

Derek Boardman,

Chai Wan,

Hong Kong

derekb@asiaonline.net

Good luck Superwhites! Come on now - one final push and make the doubters eat their own words .

Nigel Roberts , Mark & Tommy Woods (who will be in Lanzarote on Sunday)

FIIIIIIIIIIIIIISH !

nigel.roberts@pipemedia.co.uk

Good luck for the Big Match

The staff at Bolton Business

School

gc2@basil.acs.bolton.ac.uk

Good luck to Bolton Wanderers for Sunday and in the future!!!!!!!!!

Philip and Nicola Richards and familiy

PRich60736@aol.com

So close now. Give it all you've got, we will be cheering you on, glued to the TV live coverage at 4am here in New Zealand. We can be the last Premier Champions of the Millennium next year !! (And the first ones of the new Millennium the year after).

Barry Livesey,

Auckland, NZ

bl@ihug.co.nz

'De De, De Der De De De, De Der De Der Der Der Der De De, De De, De Der De

De De, De Der De Der Der Der Der De . . .'

The Adamson

Oxford White

Garry_Adamson@unipart.co.uk

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