Reply With QuoteI wonder if Gartside told Coyle to lose the Stoke game and Freedman not to win the Blackpool game,Gartside is the reason we are going nowhere!
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FORMER boss Sam Allardyce has given an account of the breakdown of his relationship with Phil Gartside during the final few years of his time in charge at Wanderers.
Big Sam is preparing to release his autobiography, which is being serialised in The Sun newspaper.
In the book he chronicles his eight years at the helm during which time the club achieved promotion from the second tier, qualified for Europe for the first time in their history and four successive top eight finishes in the Premier League.
But Allardyce claims the discord in his bond with Gartside began in the build-up to the League Cup final 11 years ago.
He also claims to have offered his resignation at the end of the 2005/6 season, which saw the club slump from European contention with five successive defeats to finish eighth.
“My relationship with Bolton chairman Phil Gartside went downhill after the 2004 Carling Cup final against Middlesbrough,” he wrote in an excerpt printed in this morning’s edition of
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I wonder if Gartside told Coyle to lose the Stoke game and Freedman not to win the Blackpool game,Gartside is the reason we are going nowhere!
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