Nathan Lawrence

Right Midfielder - Bolton Wanderers U20
16 May 2032
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279 Edition

The Bolton Wanderers Herald

1 Dec 2031
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad1 Dec 2031

Teddy Sharman-Lowe keeps Bolton Wanderers in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Market1 Dec 2031

Wilson Odobert wants more than Bolton Wanderers are offering

“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.

Squad1 Dec 2031

Tempers go at Bolton Wanderers

Wilson Odobert 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.

Squad1 Dec 2031

Words at Bolton Wanderers training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Xavier Simons is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Squad1 Dec 2031

The manager makes an example of Rúben Rodrigues

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Player ratings1 Dec 2031

Wilson Odobert runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match29 Nov 2031

Bolton Wanderers share the spoils with Burnley

A 1‑1 draw with Burnley leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

Player ratings1 Dec 2031

Off the pace: Max Conway

A mark of 5.76 tells the story without any need for embellishment. He will want the tape of this one quietly lost.

The terraces1 Dec 2031

The spotlight tightens on Sam Dalby

Every touch is being weighed now, in print and everywhere else. Some players grow into that and some are quietly ruined by it, and nobody knows which in advance.

In brief

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278 Edition

The Bolton Wanderers Herald

24 Nov 2031
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match22 Nov 2031

Johnny Kenny drives the Bolton Wanderers comeback

2 behind and going nowhere, until Johnny Kenny decided otherwise. Charlton Athletic had done the hard part and then watched it come apart, and the noise at the final whistle was the sort a ground keeps.

Player ratings24 Nov 2031

A brace, and Wilson Odobert takes the afternoon — 10.00

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Wilson Odobert provided it, and the 10.00 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Player ratings24 Nov 2031

A brace, and Johnny Kenny takes the afternoon — 8.48

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Johnny Kenny provided it, and the 8.48 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Player ratings24 Nov 2031

Nobody could get near Thierry Gale

Successful dribbles: 26. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Market24 Nov 2031

Alessandro Di Maria asks to leave Bolton Wanderers

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Market24 Nov 2031

Wilson Odobert wants European nights

The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.

Squad24 Nov 2031

Defences have started doubling up on Wilson Odobert

14 goals and a season average of 7.49 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.

Squad24 Nov 2031

Nathan Lawrence gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Nathan Lawrence has just signed for Bolton Wanderers, and for once the answer mattered.

Squad24 Nov 2031

Rúben Rodrigues 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.

In brief