Neil Lennon is the perfect man to rumble up Bolton and drag them back up the table

Former Bolton assistant Sandy Stewart reckons Neil Lennon is the ideal man to revive the fortunes of the struggling Lancashire side.

Stewart, who was No.2 to Owen Coyle at the Reebok Stadium from 2010 to 2012, believes the former Celtic boss has the qualities required to drag the Championship basement boys out of their current slump.

He said: “Neil has the enthusiasm and energy that Bolton need right now to lift them off the bottom of the table.

“He’s just the kind of manager to rumble them up a little bit and that’s what they need.

“Bolton are in a false position right now. If Neil can transfer his own qualities on to the squad, they’ll turn things around.

“When you look at Celtic under him, they tended to play with vigour and I believe he can transform his new club’s fortunes.”

Stewart will be back at his old Airdrie stomping ground this Sunday to pay tribute to the late Sammy Conn.

A team of legends from the 1992 Diamonds side that reached the Scottish Cup Final will face a fans’ select, with all money raised going to the Ayrshire Hospice where Conn passed away from motor neurone disease.

Stewart said: “I played with Sammy at Airdrie in a successful spell and he was the perfect team-mate.”

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False position my arse.

Pevensey Pete wrote:False position my arse.

Well Pete you can't argue that Lennon has certainly improved morale and results.

I think we all knew we have players capable of getting us much higher up the league than we are but they were badly managed and playing to very poor tactics with baffling team selections to boot. They needed a man who can motivate them and get the best from them and while it's early days Neil Lennon is definitely making a very good start in doing that. 

There's obviously a long way to go but for the first time in quite a while there's real cause for hope that we'll get there.