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Time to jump on the bandwagon methinks. Yesterday was a good day, as not only did Hamilton finally win the Fomula one world championship, Bolton gave Man City a resounding thumping. Get in!

The Formula One was great too watch, probably the most exhilarating of the year, and no on would’ve expected to go don to the second last corner of the last lap – Shakespeare couldn’t have written a better fairytale ending than that.

Now I know that Glock’s unexpected slowdown will be grumbled about for quite some time, and myself and the missus both agree that their must have been a frantic call from McClaren to the Toyata garage of Glock, quite simply asking “how much will it cost us for you to tell your driver to slow down a bit mate?”

It was a great end though, added to by the pre-emptive reaction of the Ferrari team - someone should’ve told them that “it’s not over ‘till the fat lady sings”. Also, special mention should go to the camera man in the McClaren pit lane for his continued focus on Hamilton’s ludicrously good looking girlfriend throughout the race.

To top off a great afternoon was the football, more precisely the Bolton thrashing of Man City. Ok so it maybe wasn’t as one-sided as I’m suggesting, but the fact is that Bolton needed that win so badly and it’s lifted the team from the foot of the table. Sweet.

I have to feel sorry for my dad, who got to watch about an hour of the race before heading to a 12 hour nightshift – and what will have no doubt been an impossible task to avoid the result. I know that feeling every Saturday night, because I try to avoid the football scores all day so that I can watch Match of the Day on TV and be genuinely excited about goals. Am I a sad case? Who knows, but I reckon I’m not the only one.

As it stands, I won’t be calling my dad until he calls me, I don’t want to be the one to give away the result if he has managed to avoid it, which if he has would warrant some kind of medal.

On a side note, I’ve heard a lot of folk moan about the fact the Lewis Hamilton’s dad must have spent loads of money to get him where he is, and perhaps he has, but its surely his right as a father to pour money into something his son wanted so badly. If anyone can remember, an 8-year-old Lewis was on Blue Peter racing John Leslie with radio controlled carts, the determination on his face even doing that would be enough to make any father want to give him the backing if he could, even if it meant taking extra jobs, and loans.

How was your weekend? If you lived in the UK it was probably very wet, miserable and your team got beat during the weekends football.

Sound familiar? Well that’s because most weekends at the moment have been like that. Rain, more rain, some sleet, a bit of hail, even some snow in places, cloudy, and your football team getting beat.

Ok so maybe not everyone’s team got beat, but mines did, and by statistically, the worst team in the league. Spurs 2 Bolton 0. Gutted.

The worst thing to happen to Bolton was the departure of Big Sam a short while back (2007). Sammy Lee was a useless manager, and nearly killed off Bolton’s morale. Megson to be honest is just as bad. They need to bring back allardyce as soon as possible, otherwise they will go down this season (to be honest they’ve been on the brink for years now).

A title would be nice too; they’ve spent 69 seasons in the top flight over the years, and at no point have won the title. Perhaps the Midas touch of Harry Redknapp is required.

It’s frustrating as a fan of the club for many years now. All I’ve wanted to see is some glory. Its all to easy for fans of the game to latch onto one of the big clubs like Chelsea, Liverpool of Manchester United, especially if your not from England (I believe Manchester United are the most supported club worldwide, but I’m too lazy to check). I’m not from England, yet I have a family connection by way of sorts to Bolton, so I choose them well over fifteen years ago and have stuck by them through thick and thin.

With three managers since 2007, you have to wonder if that’s the real problem now, Big Sam had it stable, and things were improving. Maybe the answer is to find out if Charles Foweraker is still around an see if he fancies taking Bolton to the FA cup 3 more times (Foweraker was the clubs longest serving manager at 24 years – 1920-1944, and won the FA cup in ’23, ’26 and ’29).

Realistically, the club needs to find an investor willing to spend a few hundred million on the team, as apparently that’s how you win trophies these days, plus, I hear Jose mourino could be on his way back from Inter Milan next season, if I was the chairman, Jose would be getting a call.