The Bolton Wanderers Herald
Squad5 Oct 2026
Paul Argney is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 20 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Home is on Raffaele Di Gennaro's mind
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Bolton Wanderers are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Bolton Wanderers
Eoin Toal was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Ibrahim Cissoko runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 22. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Ibrahim Cissoko falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Match3 Oct 2026
A bad afternoon for Bolton Wanderers against Bristol City
1‑2 to Bristol City, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
In brief
- Player ratings The afternoon belonged to Thierry Gale
- Market Lewis Temple leaves for nothing
- Player ratings Sam Dalby ran the game