SATURDAY

Wanderers are found wanting at The Riverside where they are outclassed and outplayed in a 2-0 defeat by Steve McClaren's Middlesbrough. Ugo Ehiogu and Geremi get the goals but it could have been much worse, although a spate of chances late squander a chance to rescue an unlikely point.

MONDAY

KEVIN Nolan finally gets the call from England U21 boss David Platt but the young Wanderer is unlikely to join the squad after aggravating a groin problem in the Middlesbrough defeat. The Bolton players admit their concern at dropping into the Premiership's bottom three.

TUESDAY

NOLAN withdraws from the Under 21s but could join Platt's squad if his condition improves. Chris Armstrong scores his first goal in Bolton colours - a penalty for the Reserves in their match against Manchester City at Hyde. But the seconds go down 2-1. David Norris joins Plymouth on a month's loan and Alan O'Hare, whose move to Chesterfield on a permanent deal had earlier been called off, joins the Spirites on loan with a view to a permanent deal.

WEDNESDAY

SAM Allardyce calls for more goals, urging his strikers to take the chances being created, or suffer the consequences. "It's going to cost us dear unless we put that right," the manager says. He sympathises with his former team-mate and still close friend Peter Reid, who has been sacked by Sunderland.

THURSDAY

BERNARD Mendy - away with the French U21s - defends his decision to join Wanderers after coming in for stinging criticism from controversial French coach Raymond Domenech. The U21 boss says Mendy is "going to waste at a big English club in the a***hole of the universe." The player says Wanderers are "a stepping stone for me to be able to land a move to a bigger club." But he denies being critical of Wanderers or the town.

FRIDAY

WANDERERS' status in the top 11 of the Premiership's commercial 'league' is underlined by their invitation to attend a seminar of 36 top European clubs in Rome.