Stephen Shaw

Right Midfielder - Bolton Wanderers U18
1 Mar 2027
Monday
Process

Marked for Stephen Shaw

3 Edition

The Bolton Wanderers Herald

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Player ratings

Atsuki Ito scores twice — 8.10

Two goals and a mark of 8.10 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Transfer targets

Preston tell Bolton Wanderers: Daniel Iversen is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Player ratings

A defender's goal wins it for Bolton Wanderers — 6.79

1 for Ethan Erhahon, marked 6.79, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.

Match

Atsuki Ito sends Bolton Wanderers past Wycombe Wanderers

It finished 4‑3, and it was Atsuki Ito’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Bolton Wanderers.

Match

Atsuki Ito among the goals in a wild afternoon

7 goals in one match, Atsuki Ito on the scoresheet, and a scoreline that will look like a misprint. Neutrals could not have asked more of Bolton Wanderers and Wycombe Wanderers.

Boardroom

5 academy players handed senior numbers at Bolton Wanderers

The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Atsuki Ito

“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.

Market

One of our own: Andrew Kelly joins the Bolton Wanderers first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Andrew Kelly is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market

Stephen Shaw steps up from the Bolton Wanderers academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Stephen Shaw has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

In brief