Eye Witness Assessment: Bolton Wanderers are in Intensive Care

[A]mir Khan would be proud. As double whammies go, fans of Bolton Wanderers have been on the receiving end of two sledgehammers this January. First, after several years of heavy punishment on the financial front, the latest body blow landed as the club’s parent company Burnden Leisure Limited announced a new high for its debt of £163.8 million. Then, following a mini-recovery and an encouraging 1-1 draw with Nottingham Forest, the team somehow fell to a 7-1 defeat against a Reading side that have themselves looked sluggish and lacking in appetite in recent weeks while experiencing some potentially acute fiscal...