Great news. Bolton Wanderers have scored a goal. Now, it may not seem a particularly special event for a football team to score a goal but in the Premier League Bolton Wanderers have managed to go more than 540 minutes playing football without scoring a single goal. On Saturday 27th February, Zat Knight scored in first half injury time at the Reebok Stadium and somehow Bolton managed to protect their own goal for the whole of the second half - even if Wolves did hit the woodwork several times. The 3 points from this game lifted Bolton four places in the Premier League. Another 3 points or so could elevate them into 13th position but that will be the limit. There are 7 points between West Ham in 13th and Blackburn in 12th and with the rubbish teams in the bottom part of the table that is an almost unbridgeable gap. If Bolton go another 540 minutes without scoring they will probably go down - not definitely; there are other teams who can't score either. Bolton were getting somewhere in the days of Sam Allardyce but in the years since, it has been more a matter of survival - but at least they used to be able to score a few goals.
Why would anyone want to manage a team in the bottom part of the Premier League. It is a soul-destroying job. Perhaps it is the money? Yes, that's it. Even if you get sacked after a few months you will go away with a couple of million pounds, which should allow you to get by while unemployed.
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