Sunday 2nd April 2023 and 100 years since Bolton's first appearance at Wembley 2 league one clubs face each other in the Papa John's Trophy Final. Bolton's 3rd appearance in that final having won it in 1989 and lost in 1986. Also 12 years since the clubs first and only appearance so far at the new Wembley and that awful day when Bolton lost 5-0 to stoke. As we go to press Bolton are 5th and Plymouth 1st but those positions could change depending on Saturdays league one fixtures. This is Bolton's 13th Wembley appearance. So far we have had
1923 Bolton 2 West Ham 0.
1926 Bolton 1 Man City 0.
1929 Bolton 2 Portsmouth 0.
1953 Bolton 3 Blackpool 4.
1958 Bolton 2 Man United 0.
1986 Bolton 0 Bristol City 3.
1989 Bolton 4 Torquay 1.
1995 Bolton 1 Liverpool 2.
1995 Bolton 4 Reading 3.
1999 Bolton 0 Watford 2.
2000 Bolton 0 Aston Villa 0(villa win 4-1 on penalties)
2011 Bolton 0 Stoke 5.
Less history this is Plymouth's 3rd Wembley appearance.
1996 Plymouth 1 Darlington 0.
2016 Plymouth 0 AFC Wimbledon 2.
Over 34000 Bolton fans are travelling and a 70000 plus crowd is expected.
Team news. 3 ineligible players. Nlundulu, Shoretire, Adeboyejo. 3 injured Bodvarsson, Iredale, Isgrove.
Likely side. Trafford. Bradley, Jones, Santos, Toal, John. Dempsey, Morley, Lee. Kachunga, Charles. Subs from Dixon, Johnston, Mbete, Mj Williams, Thomason, Sheehan, R.Williams, Jerome.
3pm kick off and extra time and penalties to decide if a draw.
TV coverage. Live on sky sports football on sky platforms including nowtv for pay on the day. Highlights itv1 on Monday at 12.20 am and 6.55 pm on itv4.
Radio Coverage. Live on Talksport2, Radio Manchester, Bolton FM.
Bolton Wanderers v Plymouth Argyle
posted on 3/4/23
Taped itv highlights. On line highlights found a longer version https://youtu.be/2gpWwqZ-SeI
posted on 4/4/23
Thanks Benny
I guess today, we should start to get back into a normal groove and prepare for Friday's match.
posted on 4/4/23
comment by Bennythedip - Living The Dream (U9359)
posted 20 hours, 39 minutes ago
Taped itv highlights. On line highlights found a longer version https://youtu.be/2gpWwqZ-SeI
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Thanks to you and Pasty for posting highlights of the game. No doubt I will be watching them again soon.
posted on 5/4/23
"The contrast in approach to the final from both sides was marked. Bolton travelled to London on the Friday, used Premier League club Brentford's training facilities and paid a visit to Wembley to familiarise themselves with the stadium.
Schumacher wanted to treat it as a normal game so Argyle trained at Harper's Park on Saturday and then travelled to the capital city.
They arrived at Wembley around the same time as they would do for any away league game, with the players in training gear. Bolton's squad wore suits.
Bolton seemed to embrace the fact that it was a massive match, and a career-defining one in many ways, and maybe that contributed to the fast start they made to the match." 🤔
posted on 5/4/23
https://youtu.be/yFbOv4di7ME
posted on 5/4/23
Full match.
posted on 5/4/23
As expected, Toal done for the season.
https://www.bwfc.co.uk/news/2023/april/evatt-toal-doesnt-deserve-injury-absence/
Benny, thanks for the link to the full match.
Has anybody stopped watching clips and social media vids from the game yet?
posted on 5/4/23
Watched the ifollow version after match stuff which was good. Now the sky version to watch. The tackle on Toal was a disgrace. Too much of that goes on in league one. Refs are pathetic and have no backbone so the likes of Cosgrove who is stealing a living as a footballer gets away with a cowardly tackle that could finish a lads career.
posted on 6/4/23
The build up to 3pm tomorrow starts today.
Who's still got a hangover, who's fit and up for it?
We'll just have enough time to recover from the long trip to Exeter before we go again on Monday.
Can we grab 6 points over this weekend and party until Oxford.
posted on 6/4/23
comment by Bennythedip - Living The Dream (U9359)
posted 17 hours, 34 minutes ago
Full match.
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I have just watched the build-up and I will re-watch the game when I have more time.
Thanks for posting that Benny.
Hopefully, we will have another final to watch. If we manage to get back to Wembley, it will be a bigger occasion with more riding on the result.
Every one of our games until the end of the season.
will be like a cup final and we need to replicate the form that we did last Sunday.
24 points at stake until the end of the season can we win them all? It will be a tough task but that is what we have to aim for.