yeah and Megson has got 2 promotions from this lge. & WHILE IN CHARGE AT BWFC, we beat man utd 1-0 ( when will that happen again, when did it happen before that !?? ) , beat man city 2-0, beat atletico madrid 1-0, drew 0-0 at atletico madrid, drew 2-2 at BAYERN. & became the 1st British side to win at Red star belgrade
news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/europe/7128973.stm never got us relegated ( unlike most predictions on forums at the time...you said DF wouldn't get us relegated anytime soon...bit of a difference there !), go ask KD which manager he prefers..by the way, KD had his most productive goalscoring season under GM 12 goals in 2008/09 ( he didn't score more lge goals than that for any club, in any division !)
he also signed the likes of Chungy, Cahill, Klasnic, Mavies, Matt Taylor ( our 3rd highest PL scorer !) , & Steinsson etc etc.
compared to BSA many were going to look like duffers. for large parts he did an ok job. nowt spectacular.
fans expectations were possibly at their most bonkers ever. many seemed to think we had a divine right to be in the top half of the PL.
GM must roar laughing seeing Coyle relegate us and Df almost take us down again. would we take 13th in the Prem ( a full 7 pt's above relegation
and never genuinely threatened with the drop ) that was Gm's first full season in charge, or would we just keep riling against it.
i can remember a 2-2 away draw at blackburn that was treated with horror, rage and disgust by fans. the same fans probably sat happily
thru 7-1 at Reading last season. something very very wrong there !!!!
he never broke any negative records like Coyle and Freedman have subsequently done.
just in case people have forgot :
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Bolton_Wanderers_F.C._records_and_statistics#League_Highs_and_Lowscoyle's 3 records in the releg season were :
most home goals conceded 39
least home wins in a season 4
most home losses in a season 11
& of course DF gave us the worst start to a season for 100+ years. followed by this season when after 10 games we had 5 pt's. even when sacked GM had 18 pt's from 18 games...survival form .
news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_prem/8429002.stmpretty soon after GM signed Zat he lost my support, but certain people were still championing Doug-loss even after he'd made Knight Captain. but what do you expect from those that aren't even bright enough to operate the fantasy football this year.. well it makes a change to finishing rock bottom by a country mile.. year in, year out. i used to think WuN'S IQ didn't go into double figures, i'm not even sure TW's reach single figures.