Bolton Wanderers 2 - Sunderland 2

Looking at transfer stats yesterday and its clear we haven't really spent any money of significance on players for years (net in / out)..... So I'm not holding my breath now.....

Agree with robmoss about the FA Cup, its our premier cup competition steeped in history, as a kid I remember the 5th round tie against Liverpool in the 60's, 58,000 crammed into Burnden Park. Also remember a 3rd round tie against Everton, played in the snow at Burnden using an orange ball, poor Peter Reid who was at his prime suffered an horrific double fracture of the ankle, just 10 minutes before half time when another snow storm caused the ref to abandon the game. Another 3rd round moment in the mid 70's - we played Southampton away, the greatest high of my life - Johnny Byrom single handedly scored 2 goals in the last 10 minutes to make it 3-3, he ran from the half way line, beat 3 defenders on each occasion in the mud and pouring rain to score, I was dancing in the rain all the way back to the train station - they where the days !! oh - we lost the replay but who cares - memories are priceless. You would go out in town on Saturday night and most of the team would be their in the club, Allardyce, Reid, Whatmore, Jones, etc, all approachable and good for a joke, no big time charlies, no stupid wages, etc.

I listened to the game on Tower FM and wondered, after seeing those stats whether the commentators were being a little carried away with their praise of Bolton but also noticed Marc Iles said it was exciting. Your comments seem to endorse their views Rob - cheers.

And yeah I also listened on Tower and it didn't seem like Sunderland dominated that much...

Might be a few more than us faithfull 50/100! Everything crossed for their safe returns.