Eoin Toal

Central Defender - Bolton Wanderers
25 Nov 2026
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Marked for Eoin Toal

17 Edition

The Bolton Wanderers Herald

23 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

The dugout23 Nov 2026

David Harrington 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.

Player ratings23 Nov 2026

Ryan Hardie was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 19. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Match21 Nov 2026

Bolton Wanderers rescue it on 87 minutes

Behind, and beaten by any honest reading, until minute 87. Reading had the points in their pocket and a corner of the ground still believed, which is generally when it happens.

Market23 Nov 2026

Chris Forino told to find a new club

“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Chris Forino has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Bolton Wanderers.

The dugout23 Nov 2026

No hiding place for George Johnston

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to George Johnston, and the manager let it.

The dugout23 Nov 2026

The manager has not finished forgetting Xavier Simons's mistake

Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.

Match21 Nov 2026

Theo Bair rescues a point for Bolton Wanderers

It needed Theo Bair to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Reading, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.

The dugout23 Nov 2026

The manager’s verdict

“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Nathan Taylor was not hiding it after 1‑1, and nobody in the Bolton Wanderers dressing room was either.

Player ratings23 Nov 2026

Xavier Simons never got going

4.76 on the card. Some afternoons a footballer looks like a man who has only just been introduced to the game, and this was one of them.

In brief

Back issues
7 Edition

The Bolton Wanderers Herald

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market14 Sep 2026

Eoin Toal hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Bolton Wanderers can pretend not to have heard.

Transfer targets14 Sep 2026

Kjell Peersman turns down Bolton Wanderers

The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: KAA Gent keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.

Transfer targets14 Sep 2026

Bolton Wanderers rebuffed over Chico da Costa

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Cruzeiro have kept their man, and Bolton Wanderers go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

The terraces14 Sep 2026

Bolton Wanderers supporters have found a favourite in Samuel Iling-Junior

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Samuel Iling-Junior has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

Match12 Sep 2026

Bolton Wanderers get the job done against Peterborough United

A 2‑0 win over Peterborough United, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Player ratings14 Sep 2026

Ninety minutes of Samuel Iling-Junior at his very best

Marked 8.41. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Bolton Wanderers.

The dugout14 Sep 2026

The view from the dugout

“We controlled it. There were spells I did not like and we will look at them, but the group showed me something.” Nathan Taylor, on a 2‑0 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.

Squad14 Sep 2026

Samuel Iling-Junior finally opens his account

He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Bolton Wanderers have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.

Player ratings14 Sep 2026

Xavier Simons could have had three

7 attempts, none of them in. He got into the right places all afternoon, which is the hard part, and did the easy part badly — and that is the version of a bad day a manager can live with.

In brief

1 Edition

The Bolton Wanderers Herald

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad3 Aug 2026

Gaizka Larrazabal signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Gaizka Larrazabal and Bolton Wanderers agree another 4 years.

Transfer targets3 Aug 2026

Bolton Wanderers rebuffed over Daniel Adu-Adjei

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. HNK Rijeka have kept their man, and Bolton Wanderers go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Market3 Aug 2026

Eyes on Nathan Broome again

The phone has started ringing about Nathan Broome again, and this time the name on the line is Doncaster Rovers. Bolton Wanderers are listening politely and promising nothing.

Squad3 Aug 2026

A row about effort at Bolton Wanderers

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Akin Famewo was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Market3 Aug 2026

Talks stall between Bolton Wanderers and Gaizka Larrazabal

“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.

Market3 Aug 2026

49 months and counting on Eoin Toal

Still no offer on the table, and Eoin Toal’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Sonny Sharples-Ahmed wants to go home

“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Bolton Wanderers can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Sonny Sharples-Ahmed 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.

Transfer targets3 Aug 2026

Bolton Wanderers try to borrow Gustaf Nilsson

Club Brugge have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

In brief