Gartside has just made a laughing stock of Bolton
Phil Gartside is without doubt a very sad little character for claiming his teams defeat to West Ham in the 2006/07 season cost his club £700,000 in the end of league standing.
West Ham United will of course dispute this case and hopefully make the Bolton chairman look like the idiot that he is.
Phil Gartsides said:
“There is an argument to say we can claim three points from West Ham,”
“We went down there and lost 3-1, Tevez scored two and it cost us £700,000 because that was one place in the league.
“If Sheffield United are successful and get a claim then why shouldn’t we?”
Bolton finished 7th in the league that season with a total of 56 points and that is 2 points behind Everton, now lets take Tevez out of the picture, the score stands at 1-1!! which gives Bolton 1 extra point, still finishing in 7th place.
What grounds does this Idiot have for claiming 3 points.
I guess Bolton must need the publicity, it is just a shame they never get it from the games they play.
Sunday’s match against Bolton will prove the kind of silly damage he has caused his club with such a pathetic claim.
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October 3rd, 2008 at 12:25 PM
I have supported thewanderers all my life and my father and grandfather before me, for gartside to make this claim against the hammers has humiliated me and lots of other fans too, we prefer to do our fighting on the pitch where it counts, gartside has made us look like weasles on this claim.
October 3rd, 2008 at 12:26 PM
I’m a bolton fan - can’t help but agree - we’re all incensed by Gartside opening his fat trap AGAIN! Please don’t think we all agree with him. He’s plain stupid and there’s not a lot we can do about that. Good luck at the weekend, but not too much!
October 3rd, 2008 at 12:29 PM
The whole thing’s getting silly now. To be honest, the more stupid claims like this the less likely Sheffield Utd are to be given anything. Once people start to see that you can’t sort these things out with hindsight. It has to be done right at the time. If they’re not happy with the punishment the Premier League handed us then they should sue the Premier League.
Some 85 year old geezer from Middlesex Cricket Club reckons we should stump up 30 million?
Ok then.
October 3rd, 2008 at 12:36 PM
I was in the middle of editing that! Anyway, once people start to see stupid claims like this the more they’ll realise that these things can’t be sorted out after the fact.
Neil Warnock said that relegation shouldn’t be on his CV as he took Palace into the bottom three in the championship. Sheffield Utd. kept most of their players and are heading that way themselves. Fact is they weren’t good enough to stay up. End of. Hopefully. Maybe, anyway, how many whippets can you buy with 30 million?
October 3rd, 2008 at 12:59 PM
I have been a bolton fan all my life, and I have to totally agree with all the other comments. Cartside is an absolute disgrace to the club and the term “football”. Scores should be settled on the pitch, and not in boardrooms/courts where greedy chairmen look for any excuses to line their pockets with even more money. Goes to show what poor character Gartside has as he is now considering selling the club to overseas investment, even though he has spent all his “professional” life ridiculing foreign investment. Let’s hope we do are talking on the pitch this weekend, and have a good game for once.
October 3rd, 2008 at 3:21 PM
I can’t believe that even someone as stupid as Gartside has come out with this - surely it has to be rubbish made up by the media. If it is true - are we going to sue for the penalty at ManU last week? Sheffield United didn’t score many away from home and I don’t think they won any games away from home. Unfortunately the deserved to go down and now they are opening up a can of worms for football in general. Incidently, according to EPL rules, clubs cannot sue each other.
October 3rd, 2008 at 5:08 PM
Bolton fan here. Gartside is an idiot. Always was. Always will be. Should stick to letting the players do the talking on the pitch