Rio’s not there because all he’d do was hoof it forward.

The only thing causing him any Alarm is leaving his two pets behind:

CAT A TONI And cat b: tiddles.

On reflection, I think you’re all being a bit harsh on Liverpool. Of course they want the best – someone with pride, passion, new ideas, someone who’ll get the best out of the under performing likes of Downing, Henderson, Carrol etc. A club with such a magnificent history and tradition deserve to be challenging for major honours year in, year out. They need a manager fans can relate to – one of them, someone who knows the finer points of the game like they do, not someone (for all his good points) like Martinez. They can’t afford the gamble on a three year plan which is probably not going to work anyway. I can’t see the point in looking backwards to Rafa either and AVB clearly couldn’t hack the pressure at Chelsea. This leaves only one person in my opinion who can make them great again and a local lad aswell. He ticks all the right boxes. Stand up and take a bow Sir Jimmy Tarbuck.

Survival. Gives me great pleasure to have consistently have earned the right to compete on an equal footing (apart from the refereeing) with the big boys. There on merit, week in, week out. Still little Wigan and 8 seasons on, still taking the piss.

I’ll try and defend the indefensible:

1: The cost – always reasonable at Bolton without the obvious expense of traveling to London.
2: Survival next season – Bolton seem skint and will be down there again next year. QPR may be able to strengthen which puts a bit more pressure on us in our never ending battle against the drop.
3: Coyle v Hughes – No contest there really.
4: This rivalry thing isn’t exactly huge. The Bolton fans I know reckon Utd is their big hatred, not us. We’re just a side show. Bolton is just a town full of Utd (and increasingly City) fans. Seem familiar?
5: Delusions of grandeur – I always get the impression QPR reckon they should be bigger than they are, a bit like Newcastle etc. Don’t get that feeling with Bolton. They’re just trying to survive like us.

But as I said on another thread, I’d never say any of this in public :)

Blackburn have a 2 games for £15 offer on to get their ground full. Why should they fill it with us when they can fill it with their own lot? This could work both ways for them, especially if they turn on Keane, but it’s entirely understandable that they’d want to fill the ground with their own fans.

One of em (who I assume to be a UTD fan) barged through the turnstile as my little lad went through last night. The girl in the booth was too busy talking to her mate to either notice or care and typically, by the time I found a steward, he was long gone some where into the depths of the East stand. Shame I didn’t see him on the way out but hope he thoroughly enjoyed the game.

Mcarthy. Rooney won’t be happy about being hunted down in midfield every time he has the ball. He’ll have a quiet word with the ref about the young ne’er-do-well spoiling his evening and that’ll be that.