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- Re: Bolton are a big club with a great history
We are far from rich, but Shazza has transformed the club into a genuine community/family organisation through extensive partnering locally and as a result has managed to bring back the crowds. Zero tolerance of dickheads has meant that over 50 troublemakers received lifetime bans. Our average gate is now over 20k and that includes a very high proportion of children nowadays. They work the stadium asset relentlessly in an effort to consolidate the finances. Pink started her worldwide tour at the stadium this summer for example. A recent bond release raised £5m and it has all gone into infrastructure - nothing spent on players. We agreed transfers with two clubs to sign quality players in the summer who would have massively improved the team, but the deals fell through as their personal terms demands exceeded our very strict wage cap. Our manager insists on trying to play like City/Barca with L1 standard players and when it comes off it's brilliant and when it doesn't we get battered but either way it's very entertaining - especially after the negative years we had to endure as we hurtled towards oblivion. We got promoted from L2 and won the Pizza Cup at Wembley in front of 80 thousand fans. This year we sold 16.5k season tickets.
We are a decent League 1 team and that's our standard but we're financially stable, risk averse and most of us are just happy that we still exist.
Yes we have a great history - founding members, 4 times FA Cup winners, great European adventures etc etc - but that club is not the BWFC of today. Today we are a family club slowly getting back on our feet following a near death experience - and we're enjoying the journey.
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