Enough of the "we didn't make the Play-Offs" funk. Suck it up and get on with it, ladies. (Me included)
Anyroad, here's summat I noticed yesterday -
The amount of Johnny-Foreign Speak happening in and around The Reebok.
A bit of German (Two blokes with bad 'taches and mullets discussing what formation they thought we'd play), four Icelandic fellas careening out of the shop laughing in their freshly printed "Bergsson" shirts and a chap from New Zealand who asked me what time the match kicked off. (I sheet thee not).
Are we now a Global Brand?
Have I underestimated Darkside's plan for world domination?
Is Frankfurt the new Farnworth? Do the people of Reykjavik now feel some affinity with the good burghers of Radcliffe and is Auckland now twinned with Astley Bridge?
What's going on......?
When I was a kid, you supported Bolton because your Dad did and he dragged you down to Burnden Park in the rain and you had no choice (Stand there, don't tell yer Mum about the swearing and enjoy yourself).
That's how I wound up with this burden that I've been carrying for over thirty years, but....... I had no choice. (We didn't have Childline back then.)
So why would people who don't have to, support BWFC?
Don't get me wrong, we need all the help we can get but I'm struggling to understand why they'd pick us. We're not a big club in any sense.
If we had no football heritage and some bloke from Bolton made his name playing for Viking Stavanger, there's absolutely no way I'd be off to Norway of a Saturday, so they've either got too much money and it's a bit of a laugh or they genuinely want to be Bolton fans.
Either way, I don't get it.
Is it the pies?
Bleddy foreigners.....
posted on 6/5/13
Well come on then
posted on 6/5/13
People who know different languages and strange accents don't have an issue with the matter, in fact its good fert th'conomy .
posted on 6/5/13
Don't forget the mass amount of Koreans who pitch up just for Chungy.
The fact is that the foreign football tours business is doing alright. Maybe some of those German fellas picked us at random one year and fell for us as a sort of second team.
Also take into consideration the big hotel we have stapled onto the south stand. I once ran into, not in the Gavin McCann sense, a foreign tourist who said he was bored and decided to turn up to take in the game.
posted on 6/5/13
Tony don't you know we are the new Manchester United, we only have to convince 50,000 Londoners to support us and we've cracked it.
posted on 6/5/13
I have an interesting back story.
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Well come on then
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I was born in Bolton. I went to primary school in Bolton and while there, I started watching Bolton.
posted on 6/5/13
I was also born in Bolton. I also went to primary school in Bolton and while there, I also started watching Bolton.
posted on 6/5/13
Both of you! What are the chances of that?
posted on 7/5/13
More likely they were both born in Farnworth (unless they were born at home!)
posted on 7/5/13
Firstof
Technically correct!!!!
posted on 8/5/13
No worries CEF I was born in Townleys too! Went to primary school in Kearsley ...and I'm strugglin' to remember ANYONE who supported Bolton there (in the late 60's) ...includin' ME (I supported Chelsea, who were the most gifted & entertaining team in the land, bar none - in the mid-late 60's). Everyone seemed to follow First division teams back then, and I was Chelsea mad ..... until my dad (who didn't follow football whatsoever) decided to take me to see Bolton Wanderers one afternoon in 1969. After seein' Johnny Byrom, Hoppy, et al ' Live ' at Burnden Park ... I was hooked on Bolton ... and it was ' bye bye Chelsea ' and First Division footy! (for a while!)