Bolton Wanderers Football Club News

• Nickname:Wanderers
• Founded:1874
• Manager:Owen Coyle

• Ground:Reebok Stadium
• Capacity:28,000

Reebok spirit impresses Cahill

28 May 2008 - 10:22:36

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Bolton Wanderers defender Gary Cahill is confident the excellent spirit at the Reebok Stadium will guarantee an upturn in fortunes next season.

The Trotters seemed certain to be relegated in the campaign just ended until a five-match unbeaten sequence lifted them away from danger.

Former Aston Villa star Cahill was impressed by the team's improvement at the end of the season, telling the club's official website: "In just three or four weeks we became a totally different side from the one that went out and played so poorly against Villa. It was down to everyone who works here.

"When the pressure piles on you like it did, you need people to step forward and take responsibility for their jobs and that's what each and every one of us did.

"It could have been easy to buckle. But instead, when the pressure was on us, the lads really took to it.

"Even just being in the game at this level there is a lot of pressure, thousands watching you week in and week out, the speculation in the newspapers and on the internet every day.

"But when you've been in the position we found ourselves in, that pressure is multiplied. It was really tense. The defeat against Arsenal was a massive knock-back for us and the Villa game, the same.

"But for us to keep on taking those knocks and keep on getting back up says a great deal about the strength of character in the squad and shows just what we're capable of."