Kevin Fitzpatrick

Realistically, how many Bolton fans at Wembley? For context... 2024/1995 play-off final - about 30k 2023 Papa Johns - about 34k 1995 (League Cup) - 33-34k 1999 play-off final - about 30k 2000/2011 FA Cup semis - 25k 1989 Sherpa Van - 27k #bwfc

Any need for Bradford City’s Aden Baldwin to do this last night?🤔 #bcafc #bwfc

Yeah, that’s sensational. Every single person in that away section is going out of their mind. Long live the English football pyramid.

🤩 The goal that secured our place at Wembley! Click play for the scenes, stay for Super @JohnMcGinlay10 enjoying every second of it 😆 #bwfc

These could be the best limbs of all time. Bolton fans losing it after Xavier Simons scored the goal that confirmed their place in the League One play-off final 😮‍💨

Oh my word 😍#bwfc

Back home in Bolton when the goal went in... 🫡 #bwfc

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Sheffield Wednesday were (correctly IMO) not given a points deduction for exiting administration and giving all unsecured creditors 25p in the £ on the grounds that Chansiri was difficult to deal with and harsh to punish new owners. West Brom were given a 2 points deduction as PSR rules seems more inflexible despite major contributing factor was interest rate on a loan taken out by former owner Guochan Lai, even though he too was difficult to deal with but new owners were punished.

My beloved dad had a terrible stammer which he fought against all his life. In less enlightened times he was turned down for work because of it, and mocked too. Luke Ayling is an inspirational man whose words help build understanding. Needs an apology.

You have heard of Ligue 1. You have heard of Ligue 2. But you have probably never heard of Ligue 3, and that is because it does not exist yet. It will by August this year. Let me tell you more. From the 2026-27 season, France will have a fully professional third tier for the first time. Ligue 3 will feature 18 clubs, all professional, sitting directly below Ligue 2 in a clean three-tier pyramid of 18-18-18. The French Football Federation is putting €11 million per year into the league to make it work. Two clubs will up automatically to Ligue 2 each season, a third can earn promotion through a playoff between the teams finishing 3rd to 6th, and the bottom three will go down to National 2. If you take a look at how the other major European leagues handle their third tier, the contrast becomes clear. England has four fully professional tiers but the financial gap between the Premier League and everything below it is enormous and growing. Spain's structure fragments below the top two divisions into regional groups. Italy runs Serie C across three geographical sections. Germany's 3rd division is the closest equivalent to what France is building. I don't know if you know. But accoridng to some reports, France is already the second largest exporter of footballers in the world after Brazil, with French players making up around 5.1% of all top and second division players globally. Greater Paris alone contributed eight of the 23 players in France's 2018 World Cup winning squad. The talent production line is already running. What Ligue 3 does is give that talent a genuine professional environment one tier earlier than before, instead of the semi-professional limbo that currently exists between Ligue 2 and the amateur game. Better structure produces better players. France has just made their structure better. My name is Ajoje and I am a FIFA Licensed Agent and International Sports Lawyer. I talk about the Law and Business of Football, a lot. Repost and Follow me if you want to read more posts like this.

WOW this explains the whole Southampton spy story. This seems to me like it was a fully planned operation 😂 I do think Southampton could be in trouble 😳🤯

Each League One Clubs Average Home Attendance in the 2025/26 Season 🔥

How many golfers can Rory McIlroy identify just by watching their swing silhouette? The results are QUITE impressive.

ONE OF FOOTBALL’S MADDEST MOMENTS, 13 YEARS AGO TODAY 😱 Watford beat Leicester in the Championship playoffs after 90 seconds of pure chaos. From Anthony Knockaert’s dive to Troy Deeney’s legendary winner, enjoy the purest definition of “Ball don’t lie.”

Total Costs of Hosting FIFA World Cup: 1994 🇺🇸 USA: $0.5 Billion 1998 🇫🇷 France: $2.3 Billion 2002 🇯🇵 Japan: $7 Billion 2006 🇩🇪 Germany: $4.3 Billion 2010 🇿🇦 South Africa: $3.6 Billion 2014 🇧🇷 Brazil: $15 Billion 2018 🇷🇺 Russia: $11.6 Billion 2022 🇶🇦 Qatar: $220 Billion

On this day, in 2019, Bolton Wanderers were placed into administration by the family of former owner - the late Eddie Davies. #BWFC

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