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Marc Iles

27 days

Had an extensive chat with Sharon Brittan today - and plenty more stories to come. To read it all, please consider subscribing to @TheBoltonNews for £4 for four months, £31 for a whole year, or £3.99 for a one-off month. #bwfc

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5 years

I believe it has now been confirmed - but @pnefc donated £2,000 of shopping vouchers to help unpaid staff at Wanderers. Tremendous act of generosity and a clear indication that the football family rallies together in times of need. Gentry indeed. #bwfc #pnefc

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5 years

Liverpool, Everton, Leeds United, Huddersfield and Blackpool among the clubs assisting food bank drive tomorrow to help Wanderers' unpaid staff. Thank you all. #bwfc #LFC #EFC #htafc #UTMP

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5 years

#BuryFC facing extinction after 125 unbroken service to the Football League. Founder members #BWFC marooned in admin - still unable to sell a ticket to a game being played on Saturday (against homeless #ccfc ). But millions more 💸to be spent before 5pm, eh? How exciting...

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5 years

Bolton wanderers confirm their game against Brentford is OFF. First game in #BWFC history ever called off for a strike and as best as I can see, first game in Football League history called off for a strike. Amazing.

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5 years

Lovely address from the Wycombe announcer... "We welcome the Bolton fans. You guys are a credit to your football team and we wish you all the best for the coming season" Every name cheered with gusto from a rapidly-filling stand. #bwfc

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2 years

Class from @dapo_afolayan #RIPIsla #bwfc

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6 years

Welcome to LIVE steward racing from Reading. First up the 1pm Royston Drenthe Classic Sprint. #bwfc #Readingfc

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5 years

One of the saddest/most shocking stories I can remember writing at #bwfc

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1 year

And if this picture doesn't kick you right in the feels, I don't know what will. #bwfc

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5 years

Quite unbelievable. This club continually surprises me... and this time in a good way. A team of Bolton 'kids' 0 Coventry City 0. I'd say I'd buy them all a pint - but most of them are too young! #bwfc

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5 years

Cheers Phil 🍻 #bwfc

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6 years

Bolton Wanderers have confirmed NO ADMINISTRATION and NO POINTS DEDUCTION will be incurred. #bwfc

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3 years

WANDERERS. ARE. PROMOTED. #bwfc

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2 years

The Queen's first-ever football match was the 1953 FA Cup final between Blackpool and Bolton Wanderers. #bwfc

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3 years

As a result of what happened to Fabrice Muamba, and the lessons learned, football is so much better prepared to deal with medical emergencies like this. UEFA say Eriksen has stabilised, so due credit to the medics, officials and players themselves for such brave action #DEN

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5 years

Quantuma have confirmed that Football Ventures have completed the purchase of the Bolton Whites Hotel. #bwfc

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2 years

Bolton are massive! #bwfc

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3 years

Master and pupil ( @IAmOkocha and @dapo_afolayan ). Amazing work from @iScoop_Photos #bwfc

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1 year

Gethin Jones looks to the sky and blows a kiss to his mum. Bloody beautiful. ❤️ #bwfc

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2 years

Be proud of your team tonight. Be proud of your manager tonight. One in the eye for the bigots. #bwfc

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2 years

GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!! Bakayoko!!!! Sierra Leone 1-0! #bwfc

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5 years

I'm hearing @Remi_matthews , Jason Lowe and David Wheater have popped into the stadium this afternoon, spoken to every member of staff, and given them a pep talk. Quality lads. 👏👏👏 #bwfc

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2 years

Never in doubt tonight. Congrats to @Jamestrafford6 for becoming the first-ever Bolton keeper to keep four successive clean sheets from debut. #bwfc

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5 years

FV to do list ✏ 🔹Sign/pay players 🔹Get manager 🔹 Sort kit 🔹 Issue season tickets 🔹 Hold staff party Did I miss anything? #bwfc

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3 years

How was your night, boys? 😉 #bwfc

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5 years

Many, many thanks to the #bwfc fan(s) who dropped this off at work. Will also cook Mrs I a nice dinner tonight before I disappear all Saturday to Gillingham 😍

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5 years

Administration spells the end of Ken Anderson's time in charge of Bolton Wanderers. I'll maintain a bit of professionalism and simply say it won't be remembered fondly. #bwfc

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4 years

One of the biggest upsides of Leeds United's promotion to the Premier League is that half of Sky Sports' EFL schedule for 2020/21 has now been freed up...

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6 years

Wilbraham: "That was the greatest moment of my career. I can't tell you how good that felt." #bwfc

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5 years

It az bin dun #bwfc 😂

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1 year

Been a pleasure watching this fella in action. And a reminder. Bolton, signed him for FREE, in LEAGUE TWO. Good luck, whatever comes next for him. #bwfc

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3 years

Brilliant from Evatt and Wanderers. Police told them to take route out of car park (avoiding crowd outside). Manager told coach to ignore and got players to applaud those who were waiting 🙌 #bwfc

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1 year

Beaten but not bowed. Amazing support. #bwfc

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@MarcIles

5 years

Confirmed by club - Laurence Bassini will NOT be allowed to enter the University of Bolton Stadium for this afternoon's game against Coventry City. #bwfc #ccfc

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6 years

Humbled by the messages of support I've had on here, texts, emails etc - but want to assure everyone coverage of #bwfc in @TheBoltonNews will not be affected. I'll still be writing a match report of the Leeds game, rating players and passing comment... for better or worse.

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2 years

Fair play to ref Rebecca Welch, who asked if she could help shovel the snow and get the game on as soon as she arrived today. Don't hear that very often! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 #bwfc

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5 years

Laughter and applause coming from the Reflections Bar at the hotel as Sharon Brittan and Co address and thank the staff. It's a lovely sound. #bwfc

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5 years

Some very kind words on here tonight and over the last few days. Hugely relieved, of course, but mostly delighted for friends at the club who dug in when the going got tough. ❤ #bwfc

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2 years

This lad gets it... #bwfc

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5 years

So the Bolton fans said it. The Bolton manager has said it. And the Bolton players are definitely thinking it. Will Laurence Bassini PLEASE leave #BWFC alone?

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2 years

Just left Wanderers to see Jon Dadi Bodvarsson talking penalties against the side of the stadium against a young fan. He just gets it. #bwfc

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6 months

Lifelong #bwfc fan Iain Purslow has sadly passed away after being taken ill during yesterday's game. My sincere condolences to his family and friends, and to those in the stadium.

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5 years

First class support #bwfc

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3 years

Kieran Lee finished tonight's game (after 60ish mins) with a 97 per cent pass success rate. And 44 of his 67 passes went forward, in case you think he was just playing it safe. Classy. #bwfc

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1 year

Trafford just loves the Wanderers, pass it on! #bwfc

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@MarcIles

2 months

Sharon Brittan to Parliament earlier today... #bwfc

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@MarcIles

5 years

Know others have acknowledged it - but must add to the sentiment that @wwfcofficial have been a class act. From stadium staff behind scenes, in the fan park, all the way up to the manager. Wish them well this season. #bwfc

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3 years

Outside the stadium this morning. No. You're crying. 🥲 #bwfc

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3 years

BBC commentary team placed in a very tough situation there by the continued TV feed. Felt Jonathan Pearce and Martin Keown (plus pundits in the studio) did a good job in the circumstances - but the pictures should have been cut much, much earlier. It was grotesque. #DEN

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2 years

Best pitch in League One? #bwfc

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5 years

Just bumped into the new #bwfc owners. They brought cake. First tick in the 'pros' box...

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3 years

Have scoured the history books and cannot find a single team which has come from as far back in such a short space of time as Bolton to win automatic promotion. Feb 20 - #BWFC were 20th with 21 games to go. I'm going to say it. History makers.

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5 years

Sure all #bwfc fans will join me in sending @TheJackDearden support as he continues his treatment at @TheChristieNHS . Press room isn't the same without you, pal!

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2 years

Villa's squad tonight cost in the region of £235m. Wanderers... circa £400k. #bwfc

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5 years

BREAKING: Bolton Wanderers close to takeover. #bwfc

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1 year

Sir James Trafford, take a bow son! #bwfc

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6 years

That's lovely. Proper #bwfc

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2 years

Wanderers legitimately doing more damage to Sunderland than the Netflix cameras... #bwfc

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5 years

Well said, Phil. 👏👏👏 #bwfc

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5 years

🗣"Mr. Bassini, leave us alone, please leave this great club alone to get on with building its future" #BWFC boss Phil Parkinson on @BBCRadioManc

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5 years

“We’ll be looking to put in, not take out" - The first official interview with Bolton Wanderers' new owners, the Football Ventures consortium. #BWFC

Football Ventures hope to breathe fresh life into Bolton Wanderers

THE sound of laughter and applause has been rare of late at Bolton Wanderers, a club pushed to the brink by neglectful ownership and crippling…

www.theboltonnews.co.uk

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4 years

The EFL disciplinary panel has upheld the original decision. Get in!!!! #bwfc

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5 years

Just heard some great news. Stelios has been made assistant coach of the Greek national team. Wish him the very best of luck in the job. Great player but also one of the finest people I have dealt with, full stop. #bwfc

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3 years

PS: Won't get the headlines but nobody celebrated harder and louder than Adam Senior, Harry Brockbank and Ronan Darcy when that final whistle went. #bwfc

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5 years

Heartbroken for #BuryFC and my friends who support and work at the club. Covered the club for many years and felt privileged to do so. That the actions of two 'men' have had such a profound effect on a 134-year-old institution is a disgrace to English football.

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5 years

Pictured in the crowd at today's Forest game... #bwfc

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4 years

Boris has coronavirus. Tough job for whoever steps in, but I know a bloke... #bwfc

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3 years

Full time - Wanderers win a league game at Lincoln for the first time in 110 years. And they bloody deserved it too! #bwfc 1-0

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6 months

Flags at half mast outside the stadium to remember Iain Purslow #bwfc

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4 years

Asked Ian Evatt about being outright favourites for promotion from League Two... “We should be. It’s a magnificent football club – we have the fan-base, the facilities, the history. Of course we should be favourites to go up. Let’s embrace it. Let’s be the best." #bwfc

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5 years

The post-K*n A******N era has now truly begun. Get behind the club, get behind the people involved. Dark days are over... #bwfc

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6 years

Wanderers' players will wear a home shirt bearing Stephen Darby's name and number on Saturday before the Derby game - and will then auction them off to raise money for the @mndassoc . Well done them 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 #bwfc

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5 years

A break from the holidaying to relay some positive news. Folk close to the deal say sale is due to be completed tomorrow, including the payment of players. After several false dawns, I'm almost ready to believe... #bwfc

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5 years

Spoke to Phil earlier and, quite typically, he said the timing of his decision was based on the hope a new manager (via new ownership) can come in and invest in the squad. No bitterness. He's talking in positive terms about #BWFC

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5 years

Tonight's attendance: 9,062... Wow. #bwfc

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3 years

Wanderers now ONE POINT off the automatic promotion places. Incredible. #bwfc

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1 year

Bumped into Sharon Brittan on the way out of Wembley and pretty sure I said 'love you' at some stage of my garbled, over-excited conversation. She was absolutely chuffed (about the result, not my surprise declaration) 😳 #bwfc

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1 year

Ian Evatt having a word with the man of the moment @Jamestrafford6 - here to see the Super Whites! 😎 #bwfc

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3 years

'Big Six' clubs: You can't punish us for what our owners have done, of course we shouldn't have a points deduction. Wanderers in financial peril during K*n Anders*n reign: Throw the book at the lot of them. #BWFC

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4 years

Feels like a modern appointment. Feels like a fresh start. Been a crappy few years for Bolton Wanderers but let's hope this is the first step on the way back towards the top of the mountain, eh? #bwfc

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5 years

Parkinson says he and staff have been "hung out to dry" by lawyers who have "made lots of money out of this". Praised his young players but said they should not have been made to play. #bwfc

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5 years

Big hug to my #bwfc partner in crime @TheJackDearden - who is going to kick the Big C into touch, 40/20. Told you mate, we're doing Sunderland on Boxing Day. No excuses.😉

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6 years

Hot off the press... #bwfc

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3 years

Arthur: "I'm used to this type of pitch. I trained on them when I was younger." Me: "What, at Macc Town, that sort of level?" Arthur: "No, Sunday League and stuff." 😂 #bwfc

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5 years

Tempering my joy that Wanderers are finally sorted with the fact Bury were not so lucky. There but for the grace.. #bwfc #BuryFC

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4 years

Lovely little barb from Evatt: "I'm praising my keeper tonight... Will that be retweeted and viewed 700,000 times?" 😂 #bwfc

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5 years

I understand that staff at Wanderers have been told a deal to sell the club has been agreed in principle and that club aiming to complete within 48 hours, ensuring all salaries will be paid. #bwfc

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6 years

Crazy day. But, as ever, the greatest joy on these occasions is to share the joy with those who really matter. Spoke to Boyd (Lofty) after the game, his last after 20yrs service, and he had tears in his eyes. "Never seen anything like that." Now THAT makes it worthwhile. #bwfc

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2 years

Cheers @eoindoyle88 . Wanderers needed goals. You scored 'em. Been a pleasure. #bwfc

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3 years

So what do we make of Dapo Afolayan signing for three years? Feels like a big one to me. #bwfc

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5 years

Class act. Class people. #bwfc #buryfc

Bury Football Club

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5 years

@OfficialBWFC Everyone connected with #buryfc are delighted for all supporters, staff, players and anyone else associated with Bolton Wanderers that the takeover has been successful #footballfamily 💙

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3 years

Absolutely superb tonight. Three points carved out by pure graft. #bwfc

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2 years

The league table since mid-Jan, covering 10 games. #bwfc

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5 years

“I wanted to stay at Bolton. I’ve been here since I was eight years old, it means everything to me" - @harry_brockbank on signing a two-year deal, captaining his boyhood club and shutting out Coventry City. #bwfc

Brockbank: Captaining Bolton Wanderers is a dream come true

HARRY Brockbank says leading his hometown club to a precious point against Coventry City was “a dream come true”.

www.theboltonnews.co.uk

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2 years

I'm told no club has managed to sell out the away end at Morecambe faster this season than #bwfc (1,700 tickets in three hours). Good effort. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

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2 years

Words fail me. Just let @GethinJones8 and his family know the #bwfc family have them in their thoughts and prayers.

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5 months

Nice touch in the programme from Leyton Orient. #bwfc #lofc

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6 months

Can't recall George Thomason having a better game for Bolton than he did tonight. First class. #bwfc

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2 years

Wanderers have opened talks with Fulham to sign Marlon Fossey in the summer. And Ian Evatt feels the club is in a 'good place' to get it done. #bwfc

Wanderers in a 'good place' for permanent deal to sign Marlon Fossey, says Evatt

MARLON Fossey has already discussed moving to Wanderers for good in the summer, confirmed manager Ian Evatt.

www.theboltonnews.co.uk

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2 years

Presented without comment. #bwfc

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6 years

Rough draft for Wanderers player ratings at Norwich... #bwfc BEN ALNWICK...10 PAWEL OLKOWSKI...10 DAVID WHEATER...10 MARK BEEVERS...10 ANDY TAYLOR...10 JASON LOWE...10 JOE WILLIAMS...10 CRAIG NOONE...10 SAMMY AMEOBI...10 WILL BUCKLEY...10 CHRISTIAN DOIDGE...10

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