Bolton Wanderers FC
Bolton Wanderers 1-0 Bristol Rovers – The Big Match Verdict
BIG Sam sat in the directors’ box with a nonplussed expression replicated on most of the 22,000 faces around him, but he – above anyone else in the stadium – knows the value of a 1-0 win at this time of the year.
It was not convincing, it was not entertaining, it was not – as another former boss, Ian Evatt, was prone to saying – ‘aesthetically pleasing,’ but one wonders where Bolton would be right now if they had negotiated more of this season’s trickier opponents with this sort of efficiency?
