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One of the greatest managerial achievements in recent times from Chris Wilder, promotion to PL with a squad that had a budget in the bottom third in the Championship. So they'll be well up for a season in the Premier League, all working together behind the scenes, chairman/owners.board working...

He did, a very foolish, selfish and short-sighted proposal that happily was given short shrift. But as he's unsurprisingly a) no longer in charge, because he's b) dead, I won't hold that against the current staff, players and fans...

From bad, to worse, to dire, to catastrophic...and now this https://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/news/17637911.bolton-wanderers-set-up-emergency-food-bank-for-unpaid-staff/

By all accounts Ajax are sitting on an absolute fortune (£250m already) from the players they have sold - only likely to be boosted further with De Jong off to Barca for £75m, and whatever De Ligt goes for, probably similar. No top player wants to play in the Eredivisie, they can't spend it! So...

I was deeply uncomfortable with both the results and the performances in the series of 'winnable' home games that were supposed to safeguard our status. Barely mustering a shot on target in the Southampton, Bournemouth and Cardiff games was unforgiveable. We all know football, even teams at the...

Incidentally on AJ, I wonder if anyone has ever been the top scorer in a major european league, moved in the summer, and scored no goals the next season.

...and given we want to improve, consolidate, and play a more attacking style of football - who stays and who goes from the current squad? It almost goes without saying that TB is going to give the new manager funds for reinforcements after such a big call.

I think we can all just forget the racism angle and see it for what it is - total garbage. We are a club who appointed a BAME manager for no other reason than he was the best man for the job, and we were very lucky to get him at that time near the bottom of the Championship. He stayed for four...

There have been a couple of good articles today, among the faux and ignorant outrage from people who haven't followed the results since January, or watched the performances. I'll be very interested to see how the Argus cover this, going to have a close read of their analysis now and in the next...

Let's have it right, there are players who won't be feeling to clever today. While he ultimately carries the can, they let him down badly on the pitch. Three wins in the last 23 Premier league games is a disgrace, the squad was better than that. No win in the last 9 games is also something Bloom...

He did. If he does that about Hughton having slagged off his tactics for months, the bloke is 100 per cent a total tool.

I haven't got a problem with journalists/pundits/ex-players/administrators fighting for BAME managers getting as fair chance - but this is just totally the wrong target. What about for the last four and a half years when Brighton were one of the only clubs to have one, has that been forgotten in...

I'll be interested in what that well-known controversialist Adrian Durham has to say on this from 4pm. Because if he decides to start wailing and howling about the decision, the bloke is a total hypocrite. All season long he has been slaughtering the team and the manager for being too negative.

I doubt it will be Boro, if Pulis goes as expected it will be because the fans weren't happy his negative style as well as failing to get in the play-offs - they aren't going to appoint Hughton. West Brom is a good shout, although you'd be worried going there after their own bizarre sacking of...

As requested, will leave debate on the rest/rights/wrongs to other threads. So thanks for everything Chris. The team was in a right mess when you came in, and could easily have pitched into League One. Some of what we have seen since in both the Championship and at times on the Prem has been...

Excellent post, pretty much how I feel about it. I bought a ticket in the Brentford end for his first game in the FA Cup, and from that moment (and smash and grab win) until January Chris Hughton has done an amazing job for this club. It hasn't been good for months, through some combination of...

I'm glad he has put that fuller statement up today. It sounds very personal and genuine, and not crafted by some crisis management PR person as many of these things are. And certainly tallies with my take that it was an anti-royal satire that went horribly wrong. One of the things I would say...

Very sad about this story. Having listened to Danny Baker for many years, do I think he is a racist? Absolutely not. The question of intent is key to this, and even though only one person really knows what he was thinking, you can build up a pretty good idea about someone over 20-25 years of...

Hard to disagree with the OP. And sad that the predicted blinkered revisionism of 2019 from some quarters now we have fluked survival thanks to three truly dreadful sides has taken literally hours to kick in. You can only hope that the board and CH don't react in the same complacent fashion.

We might all be sorry it has come to this, but in this day and age I think it was pretty naive of you to go into a home area for such an important game and not anticipate any difficulties. Have you not to some degree brought it on your own children, and should shoulder part of the blame...