Bolton vs Bradford
Leasing.com Trophy Nth Group F
7:00pm Tuesday 3rd September

University of Bolton Stadium
(Att: 9062)

Bradford City win 4-3 on penalties.
Shootout defeats are supposed to be heartbreaking. For Bolton, a club on the edge of extinction a week Tuesday night was a cause for celebration.
Following a 1-1 draw at home to Bradford, despite the 4-3 reverse, it felt like a significant landmark for the thousands of fans who flocked since Football Ventures’ takeover.
It might have just become a Leasing.com Trophy game – the significance of which was highlighted by Bolton fielding the youngest team in their background – but it represented a fresh start for its 9,062 who headed to the University of Bolton Stadium, delaying kick-off by 10 minutes.
Long queues formed outside an hour as hope sprung eternal for fans who’ve experienced their share of distress throughout the previous few years just hours last week.
That confidence has been placed on the shoulders of supervisor Keith Hill and David Flitcroft – both Bolton born and bred – that made a brief appearance on the pitch before the beginning.
The pair relinquished managerial responsibilities to former caretaker Jimmy Phillips, who picked on a team to confront.
“It is almost a kind of rebirth of all Bolton Wanderers using the takeover last week,” explained Phillips afterwards. “We stopped the rot in a losing sequence of games and we have a new supervisor and assistant and the crowd were fantastic .
“I think they were really encouraged with the operation and everyone will have abandoned this scene with expectation for your future and it’s set up well for the very first team to get some more things on the board in their second league game.”
Each of Bolton’s starting XI had played some part in a demoralising opening into the season which had seen a group woefully out of their depth devoting five targets in each of their last four games.
Nevertheless, they showed no as the feeling that the slate was wiped clean too, energised them and they appeared to increase in stature every time a enormous cheer greeted the winning of their attacking throw.
Wanderers’ goal in the eighth minute was a believer for its optimism currently flowing through the bar.
Dennis Politic, whose previous claim to fame was scoring a 45-yard lob that went viral on societal media while on loan at Salford City last season, confidently produced two or three stepovers before unleashing a 25-yard shot that goalkeeper Sam Hornby took a hand to but could not stand out.
Twenty minutes to the match, fans were still streaming in the lower tier of the Nat Lofthouse Stand, belatedly opened following the other two sides of the ground filled with, and they had been greeted by a party setting, with a passage of possession seeing each pass followed with an”Ole” in the crowd.
After their current problems on and both off the area – drawn one of the matches this year and having lost five – Wanderers were due the great chance of Jordan Gibson and Harry Pritchard.
Setbacks were greeted with positivity like Paudie O’Connor’s equalising header six minutes following half-time brought a roar from the home supporters which drowned out the little band of travelling supporters.
The ground, with energy, buzzed such as the club again having been on life support days past as’Wanderers you are loved by us’ and’Wanderers till I die’ reverberated around the scene. Even defeat on penalties couldn’t dampen their enthusiasm. Both teams picked up a point in the category, together with Bradford for winning on penalties making a bonus point.

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