A crazy Bolton Wanderers fan has released the new Bolton Wanderers home shirt (2012) before anyone else. You can see a faded preview of his image on the left. Click the image to see the shirt in all it's glory. Or click here to view the new Adidas Bolton Wanderers strip for 2013. Let us know what you think of the kit either here or in the discussion forum! We hope you like it!
116 Comments
Fowl of the season (Blackburn V Wigan - real chicken wearing Blackburn shirt invades pitch)5/7/2012 Ali Al Habsi rescued Wigan from a chicken wearing a tiny Blackburn Rover's shirt after it invaded the pitch during tonight's big relegation clash! The Wigan keeper tackled the chicken and gave it to a steward beofre the game could continue. It will be the strangest fowl you will see in football this season!
For video of the incident click the chicken! (scroll about halfway down the page to watch it when the window opens) I was watching the big Manchester derby with my friends on Monday and was gob smacked when the fourth official indicated there were to be a minimum of 5 minutes of added time to be played! United were 1-0 down at the time and were becoming increasingly desperate for an equaliser. Flicking back over the game I could barely muster 3 minutes of stoppages and that was being kind! In the end the ref played over 6 minutes of stoppage time (and yes I know the City keeper wasted a bit of time in the last minute).
Anyway it got me thinking (again) about Fergie time and decided to conduct a bit of research. I realised that the BBC text commentary is recorded by the exact second so I had a gander at United's most recent 6 games as it seemed to be a fair balance since they had won three and drawn or lost the other three. I wanted to see if there really was a correlation between the score as of 90 minutes, and the amount of added minutes. (And I am not talking about the minutes shown on the board, I'm talking about the time the referee finally blows the whistle) I wanted to know if, on average, there were more added minutes played if Manchester United were chasing a game than the number of added minutes if they were in the lead at the 90 minute mark. My results astounded even me! Here is what I discovered! Based on Manchester United's last 6 games. Added time with Man Utd losing or drawing (at 90)... Man City (final whistle = 96 mins 51 seconds) (losing 1-0) Everton (final whistle = 95 mins 26 seconds) (drawing 4-4) Wigan (final whistle = 95 mins 12 seconds) (losing 1-0) Man Utd winning (at 90)... Villa (final whistle = 94 mins 08 seconds) QPR (final whistle = 93 mins 01 seconds) Blackburn (final whistle = 93 mins 18 seconds) Averages: When winning an average of 209 seconds of injury time. When losing or drawing an average of 350 seconds injury time played. (times from official bbc website match reports live text) Conclusion: There are probably other factors involved in every match which can't really be accounted for here so the only fair way to do the calculation was to take a sample of all the games and treat them in the same way to see what came up. I think if the time added on was not related to the score at the full time whistle you would expect a closer relation between the two sets of results on average. You might suggest that the sample was too small - but there is one problem with that argument. The Guardian Newspaper conducted their own study over four full seasons, and guess what they found... (click here) |
AuthorLife long Wanderer, season ticket holder and avid blogger! Fans Forum> Chat and discuss current club matters for free with Bolton fans across the world now! Click Here!
Our Friends
Archives
April 2017
Categories |