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I went on the Albion’s visit to Hudd when the McAlpine first opened, in Oct 94. Just the two side stands were built. One of the first new stadia, it was lovely at the time. (Jepson and Booth were their strikers). Straight away it increased interest, with their crowds of 4,000 to 6,000 at...

With Hudd’s McAlpine?

I thought the Reebok was built in the mid 90’s, not in the 11 years 2001 to 2012 the ‘analyst’ is talking about? I guess you know far more about your club than him.

Not a criticism of Eddie Davis, or Bolton fans obviously, but it’s a good question as to where the £670m was spent in the 11 years? Other than the obvious usual of players wages, did other directors, or their agent mates, or consulting mates enrich themselves? Not aimed at punishing your club...

In the El Presidente scenario, wouldn't players contracts simply be honoured by the ltd co, albeit under new owners. If a new ltd co, they could be assigned across.

Eddie Davis was a good guy. But a mistake to entrust all power to his senior employee, Gartside. The equivalent would be TB taking a distant back seat and allowing employee PB de facto control the club with no checks and balances. I remember devious Gartside too. He was filmed doing secret...

That debt was mainly owed to the old owner, who wasn’t repaid and so lost it. He’d subsidised several years football operations.

Bigger than that, football clubs going into administration deprive HMRC (us) of many £m's in tax and NI on each occasion. The insolvency rules for football clubs are that unpaid taxes are not a preferential creditor, giving the green light for wiping out all tax debt overnight. In other words...

This. Bolton overspent and over borrowed, which was entirely the fault of owners past. This can’t be attributed to the PL. A shame for the staff and any creditors who’ll only receive x pence in the pound of debt.