The Football Ramble's Guide To... Big Sam at Bolton
Football Ramble
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🗓️ 30 May 2023
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
After Big Sam's *checks notes* second Premier League relegation, we thought we'd remember better times.
Marcus, Andy, Jim and Pete revisit his time at Bolton Wanderers, who went from Division Two strugglers to Premier-League-big-boy-botherers! It all started with Phil Brown getting smashed with an ashtray in the bogs of a golf club...
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody and welcome to the Football Ambles Guide 2. I'm Marcus Speller, I'm Jim Campbell, |
| 0:09.7 | I'm Pete Dundelson, and I'm Andy Brattle, a tactical innovator. |
| 0:13.8 | All this tippy tap is up, everybody keeps going the right way to play football, all the |
| 0:17.7 | l*****. A thought leader in the field of technology. |
| 0:20.6 | We get tested to every level and what the maxims are. |
| 0:24.3 | A transfer market disruptor. |
| 0:25.9 | I'm actually only surprised from the French club. |
| 0:29.7 | Sam Aladice has been all these things. |
| 0:32.2 | Sam Aladice is a genius. |
| 0:35.2 | He may now have a reputation as the last result for a relegation fire fight, but it wasn't always so. |
| 0:40.4 | We get real ocean. |
| 0:45.4 | Between 1999 and 2007, he transformed Bolton Wondras, the club where he started his senior |
| 0:51.5 | plane career in 1971 into a modern outfit that ruffle feathers, bloodied noses and defied |
| 0:57.3 | expectations. |
| 1:06.1 | During his reign, they'd gain promotion to the Premier League, reach the league cup final |
| 1:10.1 | and even qualify for an adventure in the UEFA Cup. |
| 1:13.2 | Ricardo Vastay strikes the equaliser with three minutes to go here and the Portuguese |
| 1:19.4 | Brawl is stunned by a Portuguese youth international. |
| 1:23.6 | One of the first managers to use Prozone, his meticulous data led approach brought results |
| 1:27.8 | that were seemingly against the odds and his way with people meant that the most unlikely |
| 1:31.9 | of players would regularly rock up in Lancashire and get stuck in. |
| 1:35.4 | You're in your care. |
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