The Bolton Wanderers Herald
Squad19 Oct 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Emile Oliver
21 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Bolton Wanderers lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Gaizka Larrazabal runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 32. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match17 Oct 2026
Still nobody has beaten Bolton Wanderers
The unbeaten run reaches 9. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
Louie Sibley keeps the receipts
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Bolton Wanderers may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad19 Oct 2026
The step up is real for Sam Curtis
At 20 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Squad19 Oct 2026
A row about effort at Bolton Wanderers
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Craig Dawson was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match17 Oct 2026
Another one collected away from home
3 on the bounce on the road for Bolton Wanderers. The coaches leave early, arrive at unlovely grounds in the dark, and keep coming home with three points.
Match17 Oct 2026
Samuel Iling-Junior the difference as Bolton Wanderers beat Bradford City
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Samuel Iling-Junior. 1‑0 against Bradford City, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Samuel Iling-Junior was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.38. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
In brief
- Squad David Harrington has improved at 26, which nobody expected
- The dugout Somebody else is better right now than Ryan Hardie
- The dugout A satisfied David Harris