Football: BOLTON CRITICS NOT UP TO SPEED.Byline: By ALAN NIXON GARY Speed Gary Speed (born September 8, 1969 in Mancot, Flintshire) is a Welsh footballer, who plays in midfield. He is currently playing for Bolton Wanderers, after a £750,000 switch from Newcastle United in July 2004. is turning a deaf ear to Bolton's critics. Sam Allardyce's side are in top-four contention and sailing through their first UEFA UEFA Union of European Football Associations UEFA n abbr (= Union of European Football Associations) → U.E.F.A. Cup campaign unbeaten - but still they come in for stick from their rivals. Bolton - who entertain Tottenham tonight - were branded hard to watch by Charlton's Danny Murphy who said he would not pay to watch them in action. But Speed rapped back: "I don't care about the tags. People can say what they want - we will carry on doing what we are doing. "We have got four clean sheets on the bounce 1. bounce - (Perhaps by analogy to a bouncing check) An electronic mail message that is undeliverable and returns an error notification (a "bounce message") to the sender is said to "bounce". 2. bounce - To play volleyball. The now-demolished D. C. . Chelsea have built their success on clean sheets and we will try and copy them. Whenever another team gets the ball we try not to let them play. What we have to do better is play our own football when we get the ball." BOLTON: Jaaskelainen; O'Brien, N'Gotty, Jaidi, Gardner; Speed, Nolan, Okocha, Giannakopoulos, Diouf; Davies. TOTTENHAM: Robinson; Stalteri, Dawson, King, Lee; Carrick, Jenas, Davids, Lennon; Mido, Defoe. TV TIMES: Sky Sports 1 from 7.30pm, kick-off 8pm CAPTION(S): HITTING BACK: Gary Speed |
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