IT doesn’t feel like five minutes since Stelios was raiding into Premier League penalty boxes and scoring goals in a Wanderers shirt.

Kevin Davies, Jussi Jaaskelainen, Ivan Campo, Jay Jay Okocha, to name but a few more – all modern day Bolton legends whose legacy on the pitch still feels so fresh in the mind.

This generation of Sam Allardyce’s Premier League pioneers have now hung up their boots and started to move on with their lives but each treasure every moment of the time they had at Bolton.

They keep in touch with the club through stalwarts like Andrew Dean, do half-time draws, hospitality work and occasionally get pestered by the local newspaper for comment.

Fans love to see and hear from them – and the club is always obliging whenever they come to town. But could they make better use of a collection of players who took Wanderers to the highest levels they had been in half a century, when competing with the Arsenals, Manchester Uniteds and Liverpools was considered the norm?

Allardyce’s league of nations came from all four corners of the globe and have a wealth of international experience which could surely be utilised in some way, shape or form to Wanderers’ betterment.

For example, Gudni Bergsson tells a story of how he recommended half a dozen of Iceland’s Euro 2016 squad to Bolton before they got professional deals in Europe.

Of course, finances play a major part, and it has not been until very recently that Wanderers have started to stabilise on that front. But as things continue to improve as thoughts start to drift towards how this club is going to return to the big time once again, maybe it would be worth tapping into the experience, or even the reputation of that generation?

Bolton have had World Cup, European Championship and Champions League winners wear their shirt in the last 15 years and – like Stelios this weekend – they still come back to this corner of Lancashire to recall some of the happiest days of their career.

Surely that’s a resource worth investigating?