Bolton Wanderers FC
Bolton Wanderers: How promotion hopes vanished in 40 days

CONFIDENCE high after beating champions elect Birmingham City and earning a first-ever win at Burton Albion, the talk around the dinner table at the Radisson Blu in Bristol was not of play-offs but of automatic promotion.
Wanderers’ squad had decamped for their game at the Memorial Stadium on March 11 as a club standing sixth in the table, their fate finally back in their own hands.