BFTG Bolton(H)

[stealthpapes]

I'm still cold.

[bobby1413]

I'm still cold.

It was freezing!

[Millsy]

I can't believe no one mentioned the temperature.

It was freezing.

Scientists confirmed that parts of the ground yesterday got closer to absolute zero than every previously observed.

And there was a match on.

[Millsy]

One of my infrequent visits to the Loyalty Dome this season.

I have come to the conclusion that I don't really care in the least who is our manager.

What I care about is the success of the team, and the club.

In the years I have followed the Rz I have felt warm feelings for: Infoot, McGhee, Jim and Mick, Coppell and Brian.

I have felt indifference towards: Porterfield, Burns.

Pity for: Terry the Taxi.

A shame-faced kind of lust and hatred towards Pards (the provocative, M25-voweled and consonanted (not a word) cunter).

Converse comedy hatred for McGhee (previously mentioned in a warmer vein).

No feelings or recognition at all of the perm-tanned Adkins during his non-entity rein at Smallmead.

A kind of unregulated sub-stomach churn of the kind you experience walking through any major city in summer months when the sewage system starts chucking up and wafting drift-turn backwash stench back up through the drains (Whitley Whiffs ad infinitum) when thinking of Steve Clarke - mixed with any of the varieties of non-feeling/indifference/lack of recognition itemised above. (What's he ever actually done? Answer, apart from one short rhubarb patch at Reading this season - fuck all.)

Today in the first 15 minutes Bolton could have been three up.

Great performance by the increasingly less-shaky Al-Habsi.

Gunter - weak, ineffective. (And there are times when I really like this bloke when he is on his game - but it seems he appears feeble in his approach at times, sadly).

McCleary - great control on and receiving the ball - looked calm and full of authority at times.

Williams - fairly sleek.

Hector - flaky, slightly up the self.

Taylor - Watery.

McShane - equally uterine.

Norwood - Okay.

Piazon - looked like Shane Long might appear in the latter stages of bone cancer - too delicate to touch but as easy to remove from his about-to-be-vacated space as a butterfly in the latter stages of being erased by nuclear fission.

Blackman - despite the pink boots, still quite alive (in the gay, tatted arm way that modern footballers have) on the back of ripples of near-recent form.

Sa - Acceptable, for 80-90% of the game.

Bolton: looked like Salford FC - a bit northern gobshite with some organisation and grit and bite - standard Northern tripe or pre-baked pie pastry. Stodge.

Good to see the 16 go off late-doors after his exaggerated writhing in the first half that got us an early booking. Twat.

Don't give a shit what happens to Clarke. In football terms he's made a mistake and upset the wrong people, probably, reading the thin runes emanating from the club.

Conversely it may have the obverse affect that he has to pull a run of form rabbit out of the hat that will see Reading probe more directly for promotion this season.

Strange, subdued and wishful days.

I like the way you write.

[bobby1413]

I can't believe no one mentioned the temperature.

It was freezing.

Scientists confirmed that parts of the ground yesterday got closer to absolute zero than every previously observed.

And there was a match on.

We have mentioned the temperature.

It was so cold. I even double socked yesterday and had my special Reading scarf on

[SydenhamRoyal]

Cold yesterday weren't it.

[West Stand Man]

Reading fans in shock discovery that it is November and that the temperature has dropped as it does every year.

[JC]

Was it a penalty? The replays are inconclusive. I cannot see if there was any contact but the dive was quite theatrical

[bobby1413]

I shivered loads yesterday. I looked up after and you can get pocket hand Heaters

#ordered

[genome]

Is that a fancy term for a glove?

[strap]

Was it a penalty? The replays are inconclusive. I cannot see if there was any contact but the dive was quite theatrical

I must admit on the Sky camera angle it looks to me as though Norwood got the ball just as their player fell over his leg. None of the Bolton players appealed either. Having said that, none of our players seemed to disagree with the decision, so bit of a strange one.

Lennon's interview after was also strange. Apparently BWFC gave us the two goals, and there was only one team trying to win the game - BWFC??

What was the weather like?

[Ian Royal]

Is that a fancy term for a glove?

Nah, they're great. It's a plastic wallet full of liquid with a piece of metal in. bend the metal til it clicks and the liquid stuff heats up, becoming solid. Once it's cooled and liquified boil and repeat. I may have got the liquid and solid the wrong way round.

[Ian Herring]

One of my infrequent visits to the Loyalty Dome this season.

I have come to the conclusion that I don't really care in the least who is our manager.

What I care about is the success of the team, and the club.

In the years I have followed the Rz I have felt warm feelings for: Infoot, McGhee, Jim and Mick, Coppell and Brian.

I have felt indifference towards: Porterfield, Burns.

Pity for: Terry the Taxi.

A shame-faced kind of lust and hatred towards Pards (the provocative, M25-voweled and consonanted (not a word) cunter).

Converse comedy hatred for McGhee (previously mentioned in a warmer vein).

No feelings or recognition at all of the perm-tanned Adkins during his non-entity rein at Smallmead.

A kind of unregulated sub-stomach churn of the kind you experience walking through any major city in summer months when the sewage system starts chucking up and wafting drift-turn backwash stench back up through the drains (Whitley Whiffs ad infinitum) when thinking of Steve Clarke - mixed with any of the varieties of non-feeling/indifference/lack of recognition itemised above. (What's he ever actually done? Answer, apart from one short rhubarb patch at Reading this season - fuck all.)

Today in the first 15 minutes Bolton could have been three up.

Great performance by the increasingly less-shaky Al-Habsi.

Gunter - weak, ineffective. (And there are times when I really like this bloke when he is on his game - but it seems he appears feeble in his approach at times, sadly).

McCleary - great control on and receiving the ball - looked calm and full of authority at times.

Williams - fairly sleek.

Hector - flaky, slightly up the self.

Taylor - Watery.

McShane - equally uterine.

Norwood - Okay.

Piazon - looked like Shane Long might appear in the latter stages of bone cancer - too delicate to touch but as easy to remove from his about-to-be-vacated space as a butterfly in the latter stages of being erased by nuclear fission.

Blackman - despite the pink boots, still quite alive (in the gay, tatted arm way that modern footballers have) on the back of ripples of near-recent form.

Sa - Acceptable, for 80-90% of the game.

Bolton: looked like Salford FC - a bit northern gobshite with some organisation and grit and bite - standard Northern tripe or pre-baked pie pastry. Stodge.

Good to see the 16 go off late-doors after his exaggerated writhing in the first half that got us an early booking. Twat.

Don't give a shit what happens to Clarke. In football terms he's made a mistake and upset the wrong people, probably, reading the thin runes emanating from the club.

Conversely it may have the obverse affect that he has to pull a run of form rabbit out of the hat that will see Reading probe more directly for promotion this season.

Strange, subdued and wishful days.

I like the way you write.

Thank you Sir.

[sputnik]

Herring, beautiful read as always.
If you could perhaps get to a few more games and continue with your reviews on this portal it would certainly be most appreci8d.
yours,
sputz.

[genome]

Bolton pen in slow mo here - looks like a dive to me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amvlQ0EsXdY

[janesdaddy]

No love for Lucas Piazon? From the highlights that I saw he looked like he was industrious and energetic. He has scored 3 goals now in ten league matches, almost none of which (if any) he's played a full 90+ minutes in, mostly being subbed on or off. That's not bad. And lately, he's been better than another Chelsea loanee (Hector) who has gone off the boil since October.

[Ian Herring]

Herring, beautiful read as always.
If you could perhaps get to a few more games and continue with your reviews on this portal it would certainly be most appreci8d.
yours,
sputz.

That is very kind of you Sputz.

I might shamble along for the fake hoops in a couple of weeks and if I don't get too inebriated I'll see what I can do with the scribbling.

[loyalroyaldaz]

That twat in the East Stand that wears shorts still wore shorts.......

[John Smith]

Orlando Sa is so shit

[Snowball136]

No love for Lucas Piazon? From the highlights that I saw he looked like he was industrious and energetic. He has scored 3 goals now in ten league matches, almost none of which (if any) he's played a full 90+ minutes in, mostly being subbed on or off. That's not bad. And lately, he's been better than another Chelsea loanee (Hector) who has gone off the boil since October.

3 goals and two assists in 502 league minutes, which is not bad at all