Post by kenglowhite on Jul 19, 2019 11:09:35 GMT
Many forum contributors over the years have commented on the alleged back-seat involvement of Warburtons, now surely Bolton's most successful manufacturing company. A comment on the BN website today asks if we would like to go back to the times when football directors, of which BWFC had two Warburtons, used to sit in the directors' box and laugh at the supporters. Though young at the time I used to wonder why our club prided itself on being a selling club, and invested very little in the transfer market, despite average attendances approaching 30,000 in the post war boom. It is true a lot of our attention was diverted by the development of The Lion of Vienna. Willie Moir, Malcolm Barrass, and Donny Howe, and the returning heros such as Ray Westwood, Stan Hanson and Albert Geldard , but it seemd despite two FA cup final appearances , we were happy to just jog along without spending much of the income from this high post-war support on new players and the club's development, our directors reportedly spending much of their day being entertained by the manager of the Pack Horse Hotel, George Kay. One of the directors, a Mr Norman Banks we were told by Haydn Berry of the BEN was quite high up at the FA.
Meantime a few miles down the road a certain Mr Edwards, a butcher, had appointed a Sottish manager in Matt Busby to revive the fortunes of a club in serious trouble and debt after its Old Trafford ground was bombed durig WW2. It meant that Manchester United, who were having to play their games at their neighbour's City's Maine Road stadium, needed to save every penny to make the club fit for purpose again. The result we see today is one of the world's leading football clubs.
Whilst Manchester has not one, but two leading international clubs, Bolton has one of the world's leading breadmakers, with only Brett Warburton's unfortunate financial experience as successor to his late father George's involvement having a now remote link.
With the miracle of the Nineties under Rioch and Todd and then Sam Allardyce we once again had the opportunity of building a really big club. We all gave it full-house support,but were once again let down by poor leadership. Sam wanted to go on.....he had lined up Samuel Eto'o to lead our charge, but our leaders lost their nerve, and as a result we now plumb the depths of despair., We don't deserve it as some of the most loyal supporters with a deep appreviation of how the game should be played; how has it come to this, trial by accountants ?
Meantime a few miles down the road a certain Mr Edwards, a butcher, had appointed a Sottish manager in Matt Busby to revive the fortunes of a club in serious trouble and debt after its Old Trafford ground was bombed durig WW2. It meant that Manchester United, who were having to play their games at their neighbour's City's Maine Road stadium, needed to save every penny to make the club fit for purpose again. The result we see today is one of the world's leading football clubs.
Whilst Manchester has not one, but two leading international clubs, Bolton has one of the world's leading breadmakers, with only Brett Warburton's unfortunate financial experience as successor to his late father George's involvement having a now remote link.
With the miracle of the Nineties under Rioch and Todd and then Sam Allardyce we once again had the opportunity of building a really big club. We all gave it full-house support,but were once again let down by poor leadership. Sam wanted to go on.....he had lined up Samuel Eto'o to lead our charge, but our leaders lost their nerve, and as a result we now plumb the depths of despair., We don't deserve it as some of the most loyal supporters with a deep appreviation of how the game should be played; how has it come to this, trial by accountants ?
