The Bolton Wanderers Herald
Squad2 Nov 2026
Jack Bonham says Bolton Wanderers went back on their word
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Lúkas Petersson in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Bolton Wanderers this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match31 Oct 2026
Elliot Anderson sends Bolton Wanderers past Queens Park Rangers
It finished 2‑1, and it was Elliot Anderson’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Bolton Wanderers.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
One of those days for Amario Cozier-Duberry
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 9.02, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
A masterclass from Ibrahim Cissoko
Marked 8.91 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Elliot Anderson in the eights
A performance of 8.33 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
119% of the income goes out in wages at Bolton Wanderers
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Eoin Toal gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Market2 Nov 2026
Bolton Wanderers and Joe Tomlinson are talking past each other
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
In brief
- Squad Harley Irwin makes his debut at 19
- Player ratings Mason Burstow runs at them all day
- The terraces The press cannot get enough of Amario Cozier-Duberry