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.
Penalty shootout defeats are meant to be heartbreaking. For Bolton a week ago, Tuesday night’s was a cause for celebration.
Following a 1-1 draw at home to Bradford, Regardless of the 4-3 reverse, it felt as a landmark for those thousands of fans that flocked into the first home match since Football Ventures’ takeover.
It might have only been a Leasing.com Trophy game – the significance of which was highlighted by Bolton fielding the youngest team in their own history – but it symbolized a fresh start for its 9,062 who headed to the University of Bolton Stadium, delaying kick-off by 10 minutes.
Long queues formed out an hour away from liquidation as hope sprung eternal for fans who’ve had their fair share of distress during the last couple of years only hours before the start last week.
That optimism has been set on supervisor Keith Hill’s back and assistant David Flitcroft – equally Bolton born and bred – who made a brief appearance before the start.
The pair relinquished managerial responsibilities to caretaker Jimmy Phillips, that chose a group to face a Bradford side who made seven changes.
“It’s almost a kind of rebirth of all Bolton Wanderers using the takeover last week,” explained Phillips afterwards. “We stopped the rust in a losing sequence of matches and we’ve got a new supervisor and helper and the audience were fantastic again.
“I think they have been really encouraged with the performance and everyone will have abandoned this stadium with expectation for your future and it is set up well for the very first team to have some more things on the board in their next league game.”
All of Bolton’s beginning XI had played some part in a demoralising opening to the season which had seen a team out of their thickness, without the fault of their own, devoting five targets in each of their past four games.
However, they revealed no ill-effects from those pummellings as the feeling the slate was wiped clean too, energised them and they appeared to increase in stature when a cheer approached the winning of their attacking throw.
Wanderers’ target in the eighth minute was a metaphor for its optimism flowing throughout the club.
Dennis Politic, whose previous claim to fame was scoring a 45-yard lob that went viral on societal websites while on loan in Salford City last season, confidently produced two or 3 stepovers prior to unlocking a 25-yard shot which goalkeeper Sam Hornby took a hand to but couldn’t keep out.
Fifteen minutes into the game, fans were still streaming into the lower tier of the Nat Lofthouse Stand, belatedly opened following the other two sides of this ground stuffed up, and they had been greeted by a party setting, with a passing of ownership viewing each pass accompanied with an”Ole” from the crowd.
After their troubles on and off both the area – drawn one of the games this year and with lost five – Wanderers were due the fantastic chance of Jordan Gibson and Harry Pritchard.
Even setbacks were greeted with positivity like Paudie O’Connor’s equalising header six minutes after half-time brought a roar from the home supporters that drowned out the band of travelling supporters.
The ground, such as the club, buzzed with energy with been on life support days past as’Wanderers you are loved by us’ and’Wanderers until I die’ reverberated round the scene. Their enthusiasm could not dampen. Both teams picked up some point in the team, together with Bradford for winning on penalties earning a bonus point.

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