"PETER Andre couldn't have been any closer," said ITV expert Robbie Earle during The Premiership on Monday night as Wanderers came close to scoring yet another goal against Spurs writes Richard Mulligan

A sudden vision came into my mind of a mid-1990s alleged "heart-throb" crooning his way through the Tottenham defence, although I'm sure Bolton's own Pierre-Yves has a better singing voice than his namesake.

Funny as it was - and it wasn't as hilarious as panelists Clive Allen, Andy Townsend and Matt Smith all wearing identical checked shirts - it again shows the national media's ignorance of issues relating to Wanderers, and the other supposed minnows of the Premiership.

Would Robbie refer to David Bellamy scoring for Newcastle or Zola Budd hitting the back of the net for Chelsea?

Not likely, so if you want to know about Wanderers stick local. That's exactly what I did during Monday night's game when, unable to travel to the Reebok, I tuned into the growing partnership between Graham Lovett and John McGinlay on Tower FM.

If Wanderers had been able to call on as consistent a front pair as these lads then Sam Allardyce would have nothing to worry about.

Lovett does what a commentator should do - describes the action. When there isn't any action he reminds us that Tower covers "all Wanderers games home or away".

And home or away you can rely on Graham to practically lose his gravel voice as chances for the Wanderers come and go.

So it's a good job he has McGinlay by his side, and just as he took the reins for Wanderers a decade ago the Scot does not fail to impress.

McGinlay has the club in his heart, but first and foremost he is knowledgeable of the game on a national level and gives a fair view of the match. He provides insight into why a game is panning out in a certain way, in the first half on Monday night he explained that, even though Wanderers were on top, Spurs were still the more dangerous side because of their ability to quickly get the ball out wide.

McGinlay was happy because he had just been gifted a new pair of headphones, but he was even more pleased by Jay-Jay Okocha's winner - not least because it qualified his prediction 93 minutes earlier that "there will be goals in this one". Graham was happy too, at least I think that was why there was all that noise.

Back in the ITV studio they were probably wondering what all the fuss was about, although perhaps Robbie might have switched his "Mysterious Girl" cd off just for a little while.