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Wanderers go in search of their first league double over Bury in 91 years tonight.
Victory at Gigg Lane in October was their first at Shakers HQ since 1929 - but you have to go back to 1926 and the days of Charles Foweraker for the last time a Bolton team beat their local rivals home and away.
A Twitter poll conducted by The Bolton News yesterday suggested just 10 per cent of supporters regard Bury as their main derby rival, with Wigan Athletic (50 per cent) and Blackburn Rovers (32 per cent) coming out on top. But the feeling from the other side of the border is quite different, as Phil Parkinson can attest.
“We beat Bolton 4-2 in one game and when we went out in Bury afterwards we were like royalty,” he told The Bolton News. “It was like we’d won the Premier League or something.
“You cannot under-estimate what this game means to Bury as a club and their fans. Never mind the league table - just the history makes this a very difficult game.”
Still not convinced? Here are four of the most famous Wanderers wins against their near neighbours.
December 30, 1989 Bolton Wanderers 3 Bury 1
Wanderers had waited 21 long years to register a win against Bury in the league but had to dig in against their perennial thorn-in-the-side David Lee. Phil Brown had to scramble one of the winger’s efforts off the line before the Whites took the game by the scruff of the neck.
David Reeves had been on a two-month dry spell in front of goal but twice pounced to turn home headers from Julian Darby and Stuart Storer past Shakers keeper Gary Kelly.
The Bury keeper denied Reeves a hat-trick and his side hauled themselves back into the game when Tony Cunningham nodded down for Liam Robinson to score.
Two minutes from time, Storer finally settled the jangling nerves with a header of his own – putting Wanderers en route to the play-offs.
May 22, 1991 Bolton Wanderers 1 Bury 0
After missing out on automatic promotion by a whisker, Wanderers were in good form as they faced the Shakers in the Division Three play-off semi-final.
Lee and Philliskirk had traded penalties in the first leg at Gigg Lane but with Barry Cowdrill in fine form, Bury’s chief weapon Lee did not feature as prominently in front of Burnden Park’s best crowd for a decade, 19,198.
A young Phil Parkinson was at the heart of the midfield battle for Sam Ellis’s side who could not find a way past an inspired David Felgate.
Wanderers edged through thanks to Philliskirk’s 28th goal of the season, taken in typical poacher’s style after the visitors had failed to clear Paul Comstive’s corner.
The crowd invaded the pitch at the final whistle but Phil Neal’s team failed to lift themselves again for the final against Tranmere Rovers.
March 22, 1941 Bolton Wanderers 5 Bury 1
A new name appeared on the team-sheet as Wanderers looked to gain revenge on their local rivals for a 4-1 defeat a week earlier.
Nathaniel Lofthouse was 15 and 207 days old but had been earning rave reviews playing for Bacup, so got a shot alongside two other amateur debutants, Walter Grimsditch and Harry Cload.
Cload was among the scorers but it was Lofthouse, who scored the fourth and fifth goals on the day, who grabbed the headlines.
He went on to keep the number nine shirt for the rest of the season and add another nine to his tally.
The rest, as they say, is history.
January 14, 1960 Bolton Wanderers 4 Bury 2 (aet)
The Whites found Third Division Bury a hard nut to crack, drawing 1-1 in front of a packed out Gigg Lane before doing it the hard way on a snowy night at Burnden Park.
Dennis Stevens headed home Freddie Hill’s cross to put his side ahead but goals from Brian Calder and Don Watson edged Bury in front.
That is the way it stayed until Ray Parry came up with a moment of magic with 15 minutes to go, racing past three defenders to fire into the bottom corner.
Brian Birch gave a buoyed Wanderers the lead 20 minutes into extra time and the night was finished off by Parry, who swept home Dougie Holden’s cross to book a place in the Fourth Round against West Brom.
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Victory at Gigg Lane in October was their first at Shakers HQ since 1929 - but you have to go back to 1926 and the days of Charles Foweraker for the last time a Bolton team beat their local rivals home and away.
A Twitter poll conducted by The Bolton News yesterday suggested just 10 per cent of supporters regard Bury as their main derby rival, with Wigan Athletic (50 per cent) and Blackburn Rovers (32 per cent) coming out on top. But the feeling from the other side of the border is quite different, as Phil Parkinson can attest.
“We beat Bolton 4-2 in one game and when we went out in Bury afterwards we were like royalty,” he told The Bolton News. “It was like we’d won the Premier League or something.
“You cannot under-estimate what this game means to Bury as a club and their fans. Never mind the league table - just the history makes this a very difficult game.”
Still not convinced? Here are four of the most famous Wanderers wins against their near neighbours.
December 30, 1989 Bolton Wanderers 3 Bury 1
Wanderers had waited 21 long years to register a win against Bury in the league but had to dig in against their perennial thorn-in-the-side David Lee. Phil Brown had to scramble one of the winger’s efforts off the line before the Whites took the game by the scruff of the neck.
David Reeves had been on a two-month dry spell in front of goal but twice pounced to turn home headers from Julian Darby and Stuart Storer past Shakers keeper Gary Kelly.
The Bury keeper denied Reeves a hat-trick and his side hauled themselves back into the game when Tony Cunningham nodded down for Liam Robinson to score.
Two minutes from time, Storer finally settled the jangling nerves with a header of his own – putting Wanderers en route to the play-offs.
May 22, 1991 Bolton Wanderers 1 Bury 0
After missing out on automatic promotion by a whisker, Wanderers were in good form as they faced the Shakers in the Division Three play-off semi-final.
Lee and Philliskirk had traded penalties in the first leg at Gigg Lane but with Barry Cowdrill in fine form, Bury’s chief weapon Lee did not feature as prominently in front of Burnden Park’s best crowd for a decade, 19,198.
A young Phil Parkinson was at the heart of the midfield battle for Sam Ellis’s side who could not find a way past an inspired David Felgate.
Wanderers edged through thanks to Philliskirk’s 28th goal of the season, taken in typical poacher’s style after the visitors had failed to clear Paul Comstive’s corner.
The crowd invaded the pitch at the final whistle but Phil Neal’s team failed to lift themselves again for the final against Tranmere Rovers.
March 22, 1941 Bolton Wanderers 5 Bury 1
A new name appeared on the team-sheet as Wanderers looked to gain revenge on their local rivals for a 4-1 defeat a week earlier.
Nathaniel Lofthouse was 15 and 207 days old but had been earning rave reviews playing for Bacup, so got a shot alongside two other amateur debutants, Walter Grimsditch and Harry Cload.
Cload was among the scorers but it was Lofthouse, who scored the fourth and fifth goals on the day, who grabbed the headlines.
He went on to keep the number nine shirt for the rest of the season and add another nine to his tally.
The rest, as they say, is history.
January 14, 1960 Bolton Wanderers 4 Bury 2 (aet)
The Whites found Third Division Bury a hard nut to crack, drawing 1-1 in front of a packed out Gigg Lane before doing it the hard way on a snowy night at Burnden Park.
Dennis Stevens headed home Freddie Hill’s cross to put his side ahead but goals from Brian Calder and Don Watson edged Bury in front.
That is the way it stayed until Ray Parry came up with a moment of magic with 15 minutes to go, racing past three defenders to fire into the bottom corner.
Brian Birch gave a buoyed Wanderers the lead 20 minutes into extra time and the night was finished off by Parry, who swept home Dougie Holden’s cross to book a place in the Fourth Round against West Brom.
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