Deano is ready to roll his sleaves up...

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Dean Holdsworth remembers driving up to Bolton 19 years ago, seeing the Reebok Stadium lights from the motorway and feeling a rush of adrenaline. Both man and club have come a long way since Holdsworth spent six years there between 1997-2003, but find themselves reunited at the beginning of a new era.

Holdsworth is now the Bolton chief executive after his consortium, Sports Shield, secured approval from the Football League to complete a takeover in a joint venture with the Inner Circle Investment Group. The deal has been six months in the making yet, for the beleaguered Championship club, which has had to sell off numerous assets, change cannot come soon enough.

Bolton are bottom of the table and 10 points from safety with 10 matches remaining but, more significantly, they were minutes away from extinction during the last week in February. A winding-up petition regarding £3m of unpaid tax, brought to the high court by HMRC, was adjourned at the 11th hour and only after the club’s

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Good luck Deano we all want the club rocking again the sooner the better but we need to be in the Premiership for that to happen!