I AM writing to the Bolton Evening News after failing to get a response from the Wanderers to my recent letters regarding the club's use of music to supposedly enhance the atmosphere at home games.

I am a long standing supporter of the Wanderers and have greatly enjoyed watching the progress made by the team in recent years. The only thing that embarrasses me about being a fan of Bolton Wanderers at the moment is the insistence on playing James Brown music to celebrate home goals.

Personally, and I am sure this is a view shared by many others I find this deeply irritating, patronising and if anything detrimental to the atmosphere at home games. I don't know the clubs rationale behind playing the music but I am sure that the vast majority of the fans would prefer for it to be stopped.

We are perfectly well aware we feel good -- after all this is by general consent the best Bolton team for over 40 years. No other Premiership team, (with the exception of Middlesborough) do it, playing music and having club employees running up and down the touchline waving flags succeeds only in making the club look totally amateurish, out of touch and desperate to pretend that we are something we aren't.

I hope to find out the club's reasons for subjecting its fans to such naff entertainment at a time when the quality of the team is going in the opposite direction. Of course the club has to attract young supporters but I really find it difficult to believe that its James Brown pulling them in in record numbers and not Jay-Jay Okocha.

Patrick Truss

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