’MY PLAYERS SHOWED TRUE CHARACTERTO STAY UP’

BOLTON WANDERERS’ GREAT ESCAPE

By Chris Dunlavy

PUT YOUR SHIRT ON HIM: Aaron Wilbraham celebrates scoring his crucial winner

PHIL Parkinson invited the neighbours round on Sunday night. Next day, he went to a street party on the village green.
As celebrations go it was lowkey rather than lavish. But when you’ve just saved the Championship’s most straitened club from relegation, perhaps that is apt.
Bolton’s season had begun with budget cuts, transfer embargoes and wage reductions.
For much of a dramatic final day, it seemed destined to en...

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