Bolton Wanderers FC

A shambolic display, completely inept and reminiscent of Sunday league football (albeit piss poor Sunday league football). I really do feel like leaving the review there but I'll elaborate a little. The performance today was an absolute disgrace and plunges us right back into trouble. The 4-4-2 formation simply did not work and a poor Wigan team were made to look better than they actually are (though at least they had some fight in them). After everything I said on here yesterday, Davies had a really poor game on his return but, to be fair, there wasn't a single Bolton player to emerge with any credit. Elmander, despite chasing every loose ball, was very poor on the ball. An extremely pedestrian midfield was ridiculously poor and a defence shorn of Gary Cahill's undoubted class looked there for the taking. Credit to Wigan for diving about as if they were Bambi on ice (how does someone of Zaki's build go down so easily?) - that really embellished a really poor game of football. And just what has Ebi Smolarek got to do to get a decent shift in on the pitch? Has Megson caught his missus in a compromising position with the Polish international or what?

Wigan now have a 5 point cushion on us. Our next 2 league games are Arsenal away and Man United at home. We are just 3 points ahead of Stoke in 18th position. Am I hacked off? Exceedingly. In what is turning out to be a bizarre season, a couple of defeats can easily plunge you into trouble. Megson's November manager of the month award now seems an age ago. Bah humbug and roll on 2009...