This time last season more or less, we went to Bolton safe from the drop and with every incentive to get out there and express ourselves after a long, hard-fought battle to avoid relegation. Er, we all know what happened next. Bolton needed a win, and they got it. We didn’t turn up. This season, we could quite do with one. Will we get it? Will we ever get it? Welcome Danny Warbrick,* Wanderers through and through (and came to us courtesy of a former contributor, Craig Johnson, a familiar figure from the Bolton Wanderers FC fansites Burnden Aces and BWFC UK Forum). At just 16, Danny is comfortably the youngest writer Salut! Sunderland has recruited for the Who Are They? series. He turns out to be very perceptive about us and philosophical about both clubs. So did the fixture ring a bell for him, too? You bet it did …

Last season was obviously a massive game for us as if we hadn’t won that we’d have found it very difficult to stay up.

So I think it helped us that you were safe by then and seemed to have started summer early.

This season, as you say, things are the other way round with you desperate for the points whilst we now look all but safe. Whether we’ll have taken our foot of the gas remains to be seen as we’ve yet to actually pass the 40 point mark but I wouldn’t expect us to put in such a flat performance that you’ll come and just take the points. I think if you’re going to leave with three points you’re going to have to work for them.

And now for the questions:

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