Here We Go Again

We're back with another episode of Here We Go Again and this time Luke and Paul chat with Kevin Nolan about his time with Bolton Wanderers. Rising up through the ranks to become First Team captain, the Liverpudlian spoke in-depth about over a decade with the football club.

Luke and Paul are joined on the latest episode by Alan Thompson, a star of the 1990s who impressed many Wanderers fans with dazzling performances on the left-hand side of midfield. He spoke about playing at Wembley with Bolton as well as promotions to the Premier League, an eventual move to Aston Villa, success in Scotland and an audition for Euro 2004 with the England team.

Ricardo 'Bibi' Gardner joins Luke and Mikey on Episode 10 of the podcast, and he speaks all about his journey from Jamaica to Bolton and all the memories of playing for Wanderers during a 14 year spell at the club. The likeable left-sider also talks about playing at the World Cup in 1998 and being good friends with Usain Bolt!

Luke and Mikey are back on the pod to chat to former Wanderers striker Henrik Pedersen. The former Denmark international spoke about his initial doubts of making it in England, the origin of the famous Peacock celebration, his fall out with Sam Allardyce and how he is now the landlord of a sports bar back home! To hear about this and much more, give this a listen!

In this instalment of Here We Go Again, Luke and Mikey chat to European Championship winner and former Wanderers winger, Stelios Giannakopoulos!

Despite some connections issues, we covered Stelios' career in whole, from his time dominating the Greek Superleague with Olympiacos, to that historic national victory in Portugal to completely shock the world, to his time at Bolton and beyond.

On Bolton, we discuss the dressing room at the time, how Nicky Hunt was the greatest player in the whole team (that may or may not be true) and just how much of a soft spot the crafty Greek wide player has for Wanderers.

In this latest episode, Luke and Mikey chat to a Wanderers hero of the 2000s.

His resume includes a World Cup, European Championship, UEFA Cup and more.. as Youri Djorkaeff joins us!

We asked Youri about how he got into the game as a youngster and how his father played a key role in his early days.

From there, we asked what it was like to play under Arsene Wenger at Monaco, his move to Paris Saint Germain and then moving abroad to Italy.

We continued to look deeper into his time at Inter Milan, asking what it was like to play with the Brazilian Ronaldo and just how good "Ronny" was to be around.

We'd be remiss not to cover his glorious time with the French national team and discussing in detail about their journey to both World Cup and European Championship glory!

After this, we spoke about his love for Bolton Wanderers including just how the deal came about and how Bolton will always have a special place in his heart.

One for the casual football fan for sure!

In this episode, Luke and Mikey are joined by former Wanderers and Republic of Ireland midfield maestro, Jason McAteer!

We headed back to his days playing at Marine, how Bolton signed him for £500 and a bag of balls and how he found immediate success with Wanderers in the 1992/93 promotion winning season.

From there, we ventured deep into his Bolton career, revolving around the memorable 1994/95 season, with finals against Liverpool and Reading just a couple of the talking points!

Following his spell with the Whites, we discussed his relationship with Bruce Rioch, how he nearly signed for Blackburn before joining Liverpool, the "Spice Boys" legendary photograph and how it felt to play for his boyhood team.

We asked what it felt like to represent Ireland in the 1994 and 2002 World Cup Finals and so much more!

In Episode 5, Luke and Mikey continue their chat with former Wanderers midfielder Filipe Morais!

In this instalment, the postman talked about his time with Bradford City, his relationship with manager Phil Parkinson and how his career changed for the better at the Bantams.

The winger talked about scoring against Chelsea at Stamford Bridge for Bradford in the F.A. Cup, how his move to Bolton came around at the very last minute and his contribution to League One promotion in 2016/17.

How could we forget the drama of the season after that? Filipe recalls the season well and the stories from his time at Bolton.

Furthermore, Morais talks about his brief stint as player/manager at Crawley Town and how his current spell at Oldham isn't all it seems.

On Episode Four of the Here We Go Again podcast, Luke and Mikey speak to former Wanderers midfielder, the postman, Filipe Morais in a two part spectacular!

In part one, the former Chelsea youth graduate his time working with Jose Mourinho in his early career with the Blues, playing for the Portuguese U21s and the plethora of talent he played alongside.

From there, we moved int Filipe's ventures to Scotland with St Johnstone, Hibernian and Inverness Caledonian Thistle, before discussing his first spell at Oldham Athletic and his time playing under Graham Westley at Stevenage.

There are a fair few stories and exclusives in this pod so don't miss out!

In Episode 3 of Here We Go Again, we welcomed club legend John McGinlay onto the podcast.

We discussed his early days in the Highland Leagues, how he ended up playing in New Zealand, heading to Shrewsbury Town in his mum's Mini Metro, the White Hot night against Liverpool and the final game at Burnden Park.

He didn't stop there, as John discussed his relationship with "Sir Nat Lofthouse" and exactly what he means to the club.

An extended podcast for you Whites fans out there with Super John!