Well it certainly sounds like Owen Coyle will be moving the 25 or so miles to Bolton Wanderers to replace the sacked Gary Megson. After being given permission to talk to the Trotters, Coyle looks set to become the manager of a club he served so well for two years between 1993 and 1995.

So it's official then, Owen Coyle will be the new manager of Bolton Wanderers and Burnley now have to find the right man to replace him as they look to continue the good work this season has produced. It is crucial that the chairman, Barry Kilby, makes the right decision in who to appoint as Coyle's successor at Turf Moor.

Time is precious, or so the saying goes, yet as we all know there seems to be very little afforded in football these days.

You don't have to wait very long in any season now for owners to get nervous and take drastic measures and this is something which I think is really damaging the sport.

Chairman goes from saint to sinner overnight On Tuesday, Southampton lost 3-0 at home in the Johnstone Paints Trophy. On Saturday they won 4-0 away at Bristol Rovers. Unless you have buried your head in lower league sand, you will be aware that in between these two matches, Alan Pardew has lost his job as manager, [.

The issue of wage increases has been brought into the spotlight once again by the news that Wayne Rooney has signed a vastly-improved contract at Manchester United, having agitated for a move away from Old Trafford. It was Chelsea who famously stimulated the market following Roman Abramovich's arrival in 2003, a role now undertaken by Manchester [.

EDINBURGH, Scotland A Scottish soccer club has apologized after a program from a weekend game featured a photo of Nazi soldiers on the front. In a note on the Airdrie United soccer team's website, chairman Jim Ballantyne said the wrong photograph was used for the program's front cover. The photo shows nurses handing out [.

BLACKBURN, England Indian poultry giant Venky's have completed their 23 million pounds ($36.66 million) takoever of Blackburn Rovers, the Premier League club said on Friday. "We are very pleased to be passing on the Rovers to the Rao family," Paul Egerton-Vernon, chairman of Blackburn's trustees who completed the deal, said in a statement on the [.