well i think tonights game proved how people cant afford to watch footy anymore...and that goes for both teams.

Allardyce angry as 10-man Bolton hold on for point

Sat 14 Jan, 8:52 PM

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BLACKBURN, England (AFP) - Bolton Wanderers manager Sam Allardyce claimed referee Mike Riley nearly caused a riot after sending off his side's Japan star Hidetoshi Nakata during a bruising goalless Lancashire derby draw away to Blackburn Rovers at Ewood Park.

The former Roma, Parma and Fiorentina midfielder was dismissed for two bookable offences in the first half of this fractious match, although his second caution looked harsh.

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Even so, Bolton could have no complaints at being short-handed as Joey O'Brien escaped with a yellow card after a wild and dangerous studs-up lunge on Ryan Nelson.

Nevertheless, Allardyce insisted afterwards: "I see it like this. Hidestoshi Nakata committed three fouls and got sent off; Robbie Savage committed three fouls and didn't get booked, that's nothing against Robbie Savage. The statistics don't stand up unfortunately when Mike Riley referees us.

"Give me a minute and I will just prove what the referee has done and what he's done in the past. He's refereed us seven times and we've had five players sent off, four in the first half," he also told Sky Sports.

"Those stats say it all, it's blatant inconsistency - in my opinion simply not good enough. The statistics speak for themselves.

"He's nearly caused a riot here today when our fans decided to jump over the fence. I don't think that's caused by players, it's caused by some of the refereeing.

"It's nothing against Robbie Savage, or any Blackburn player - you just look for consistency. Then it gets out of hand and the referee loses control, and there are people flying all over the place.

"We've done very well to keep our heads."

Bolton had the best chance of the first half as Lucas Neill's mistake let in Kevin Davies but Blackburn keeper Brad Friedel was quickly off his line to smother the striker's low shot.

Rovers came within a whisker of taking the lead two minutes into the second period as Brett Emerton's header hit the underside of Jussi Jaaskelainen's bar before bouncing away to safety.

Six minutes later, O'Brien came to his team's rescue to head Steven Reid's threatening cross away from the danger zone with two Blackburn forwards lurking behind him.

From the resulting corner, Paul Dickov was presented with a chance two yards out in the centre of goal, but it came quickly at him and he could not react quickly enough as the ball hit his shin and bounced wide.

Highly-rated Portugal youngster Ricardo Vaz Te should have put the 10-men in front with 20 minutes left but after rounding Friedel, his standing leg slipped away from beneath him just as he went to slot the ball into an empty net.

It looked embarrassing but in truth there was little Vaz Te could do about it on the slippery surface.

Blackburn laid seige to the Bolton goal in the dying stages and the Trotters were indebted to Ivan Campo who cleared Nelson's header off the line with 10 minutes to go.

what a pillock he really is !!

38 and porn star!

hobby

what like a bogey?

10-0!!!

time to stuff burnleys interbred cousins

bolton fans thick in arm thick in bonny head....bolton fans only word is eeeeeeeeeniceandbonny...wtf that all about

whats a scrimp?

throw a wanky wanderer on the barbie....no sentiment today......hes trying to BEAT us today...its easy =the king is dead...long live bellars

scum reds at work reckon smith did no wrong and sav should of gone grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr i ranted ....noone talked to me for an hour til id calmed down

24,348... well done Roverites.

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another fiddle!!!if there were thousands of empty seats i couldnt see em....and the blackburn end was shocking tonight,about 50 singing and getting behind the team the rest just sat on there hands aprt from 10 mins in 2nd half...it was a semi and the people didnt care...

5 VEGGIES ???DID THEY HAVE BLUE RINSES AND ZIMMER FRAMES??LOL

  Can't be many rovers fans in Clevelys can there?

Wasn't you, was it?

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theres not MANY people "alive" in gods waiting room aka cleveleys

btw shills the nob enders refer to us the B@STURDS

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. If gaining a good relationship with PNE 

If the reason the hatred is so strong is something which may too make me stop and think twice about PNE, then equally, I am up for hearing it.

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relationship haha tried that i married one and look where that got me .

another reason to hate nobend is they smashed my brothers car to pieces whilst we was in that shed during the kleague cup a few years back.....

pne = pussies need emanomas (spelling ...not arsed hahaha...get it!!)

bolton ,nob end and scumley are all scrotes ...20 years ????more like 38 years ,i was brought up to hate burnley as much as nobend....nobenders are more up there own arses than burnley fans and still after all their years of crappiness still think of themselves as a top flight team ..bunch tits are there fans and team alike ...make note to abbey ..must print off and show my nobender mate tonight.......

not the nobbers matty not the nobbers...THEY ARE SCUM !!!LIKE BUMLEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!

for all his bad apple stuff i saw bellers support and encourage peter all way thru .

they reckon 10k but i couldnt get my normal seat ???so eithera decent crowd or everyone wants to sit next to unkle abs

someone mentioned a brawl outside macs...my mate said someone got wacked over the head with a cricket bat??thats alls he saw

So when we play the geordies away they will have no Parker, Owen, Ameobi, Dyer.... Anybody else?

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no f chance either

a bald pregnant lady in goalie boots is this thought too sick even for me or do i add it to the ones to poke in 2006.

What game were you at?

I saw a flapping bald idiot with superglue on his boots, not a goalkeeper.

And how many freekicks is Brad going to concede. All his Rovers career he's looked dodgy at them, and his positioning is always awful for them.

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hey thats racist to us baldies!!!!

Funny how the disciplinary committee failed to do anything about Gerrards malicious attack on Newcastle players two weeks ago or Crouch pushing over the Barcodes player.

Then yesterday both Gerrard and Sissoko stamp on players.

But hey, Ryan Nelsen made the ref cry, so lets charge him.

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what the chelsea aka blackburn bulliyboys...flying elbows ..

aye think so

and the reason pompey needed two, and a nob with that cowbell

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it was great !our drummer was outcassed and hardly drummed ...result...

but has for the nob with the bell it was like listening to ski sunday and is more annoying than the drummer.

well at least warm then

There was well more than 19k there yesterday!

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thought the same myself.