Quote j.c="j.c"the only surprise in all this.is that it took them so long to do it.he had no chance with those supporters.why do they think they are bigger or better than any other small team in the prem
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They/we dont/didnt.
He had every chance and more. He had more money available than any other Bolton manager and had the support of the vast majority until the last few months.
When he was appointed many were not convinced but only a small minority made it known and were more often than not drowned out by the majority.
Supporters groups urged him to open up to the fans and ignore the minority. He was given more than anough opportunity to reach out to those who supported him but he didn't.
He then took a reserve team to Lisbon in the QF of the Uefa Cup because we had Wigan a few days later. We lost both. If you've been a Bolton fan since the bad old days of 4th Division football, European football is a dream. To treat it with contempt was a disgrace especially when we'd already got results against Athletico Madrid and Bayern Munich - we could quite easily have gone further. Rangers were no better than us, the only team far and away better than any of the last 8 were Zenit who romped it.
The PR failing was mainly of his own doing with poor decisions and frequent negativity, his signings are by and large were abysmal, but when things didnt go right he always sought to blame the fans, who by and large had supported him up to the last few months, or the players.
In his frequent whinges at the noisy minority, he lumped us all in the same boat. There was no 'we' or 'us' with him, it was always 'this lot' or 'Bolton'.
That slowly alienated his best allies. He was lumping us with the halfwits but doing little to prove them wrong. Too many times he went too defensive at home against teams we needed to beat. Too many times it resulted in defeats or losing two goal leads. Too many times we were left to say 'we told you so'.
He created that atmosphere, nobody else.
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