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Soapbox: Barton, Barwell and bloody Bolton
Sunday, March 7th, 2010
A sad, deluded Wanderers fan expressed the fear, in a comment to the last posting here, that Bolton had a habit of losing to “rubbish teams”. He probably thought he was insulting us; little did he know plenty of Sunderland fans would regard that as a relatively kind description of what they’ve been watching since the back end of November.Pete Sixsmith chooses a non-League warm-up to what he hopes will not be another heap of rubbish…
Another Saturday afternoon and I ain’t got no football, as Sam Cooke might have sung had he been a Sunderland fan.
This is the second of three successive Saturdays without a game and with another one coming up at the end of the month, that give us four out of five blanks on the day we associate with watching our beloved red and white striped shirts struggling to avoid relegation.
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