So what's going on with Bolton?

To bring things round to tomorrow's crucial set of matches, here's the latest with Bolton.

My last blog post about Bolton was their 2-1 defeat at home to Wigan, but since then some results improved, starting with a 2-1 victory over QPR courtesy of a late Klasnic goal, albeit with the aid of a fortunate goal-that-never-was.

This was followed by a 2-1 victory over Blackburn, where the atmosphere was near deafening, not due to this being a local rivalry but because this was the first match since Muamba collapsed with a cardiac arrest, and was technically dead for 78 minutes. The picture above I took of the fantastic 'Muamba 6' mosaic, and below are just some of the tributes outside the Reebok Stadium on the day.

They continued the winning 3-2 at Wolves, before a disappointing 3-0 defeat at home to Fulham and a predictable 2-0 loss at Newcastle. A 1-1 draw against Swansea was little help, but a vital 2-1 win at Aston Villa followed by a 2-2 at Sunderland gave Bolton big hopes.

I was at the home game midweek versus Tottenham, and Bolton deserved to be 1-0 behind at half time - a fairly disappointing and scrappy first half in truth. But they really came out fired up in the second half, and after Nigel Reo-Coker got the equaliser they were on top, and coming close to getting another goal to take the lead. Next thing Tottenham got two quick goals to make it 1-3, and some after it as 1-4 and the game was over from there.

So, with crucial games coming up tomorrow, where do Bolton find themselves? Well personally, I'm expecting in 8 days QPR will lose at Man City, and Bolton lose at Stoke (however I've got a ticket for that game and hoping they don't). So, with Bolton and QPR joint on points and QPR having a superior goal difference, it's likely that whoever is above the other after tomorrow's games will be the one who stays in the Premier League.

Bolton are at home to West Bromwich Albion, QPR at home to Stoke. It's difficult for both, but both WBA and Stoke are very unpredictable especially in away matches... It'll especially be interesting to see how the announcement of Roy Hodgson as England manager will affect the WBA team's performance - will it cause a dip in form as with Harry Redknapp's Spurs, or will the sudden building up of profile of Hodgson be a sort of extra motivation for the players to impress, or perhaps an extra motivation for Hodgson to push for a result in a game that's essentially otherwise meaningless for WBA?

And of course whilst all this goes on in the Premier League, there's also the small matter of a team from Manchester travelling to Newcastle, and later on some other Manchester team playing at home to Swansea...