RICARDO Gardner has credited Wanderers supporters as the major reason he has stayed a member of the squad for over a decade.
The Jamaican international, who arrived from Harbour View as a relatively unknown teenager just after the 1998 World Cup, was speaking at an event at Hayward Leisure Centre to promote inclusion in Bolton using football.
Jussi Jaaskelainen was also on hand to meet kids aged 11-15 from all around the town who had been competing in a six-week Challenge Cup competition run jointly by the club’s Community and Diversity project and Bolton Council’s Sport, Health and Inclusion department.
“I came here very young and it was easy right away because the fans made it like that,” Gardner said.a great surprise for them.”
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