Reserve team manager Jimmy Murphy took over as manager while Busby recovered from his injuries and the club's makeshift side reached the FA Cup final, which they lost to Bolton Wanderers.

The following season they finished fourth in Division One and qualified for the play-offs, where they lost in the semi-final to Wolverhampton Wanderers.

The Wanderers played only four games in the NHL's inaugural season and lost all but one before their home rink, the Montreal Arena, burned down on January 2, 1918.

Rovers lost this game 3 – 0 to Wolverhampton Wanderers after playing most of the game with only 10 men on the field.

Sutton took Lincoln to the FA Cup third round for the first time since 1999, but lost 4 – 0 to Premier League outfit Bolton Wanderers.

In April 2000, a week after returning to the team, he helped Aston Villa reach their first FA Cup final in 43 years, which they lost 1 – 0 against Chelsea, scoring a penalty in the semi-final shoot-out against Bolton Wanderers.

However, despite their failings in the league, that season also saw Portsmouth reach the FA Cup final for the first time, which they lost to Bolton Wanderers.

The Wanderers then lost the next three games and owner Lichtenhein threatened to withdraw from the league unless he could get some players.

But he took the Midlands club to fourth in Division One to qualify for the playoffs – their highest league finish since their last top division season 11 years earlier – where they lost out to Bolton Wanderers.

In the league, the Stones looked destined to win a second successive title but after a poor run-in, coupled with the withdrawal from the league of Faversham Town, the club bizarrely lost the championship by 0. 14 of a point ( the League Management Committee decreed that the title would be awarded to the club with the highest earned points per match average, so with Maidstone and Thamesmead Town achieving 63 points from 30 games, the unusual situation arose that the championship was won by Cray Wanderers with 62 points from 29 games ).

After beating ( then non-league ) Wycombe Wanderers in the First Round ( winning a replay at Essella Park ) the club lost 0 – 3 on home turf to Queens Park Rangers.

2006 – 07 will be the Berkshire club's first ever season in England's top flight ( though they would have been automatically promoted in 1995 as Division One runners-up had it not been for a reorganisation of the league which saw them forced into the playoffs where they had lost to Bolton Wanderers in the final ).

4 – 2 on aggregate, Panionios NFC, Eintracht Braunschweig 6 – 3, FK Željezničar Sarajevo 3 – 3, and lost 3-4 to Wolverhampton Wanderers F. C.

Forest did reach a third successive League Cup final that year, but lost to Wolverhampton Wanderers.

It hosted its first match in August 1994 when Huddersfield Town lost 1 – 0 to Wycombe Wanderers in Football League Division 2.

In 2000, Dynamo controversially lost 2 cup finals, to Longford Wanderers at Dalymount Park and to Connolly Celtic.

After English Premier League new boys Stoke City lost their opening game of the 2008 – 09 season 3 – 1 to Bolton Wanderers, Paddy Power controversially paid out on bets on them being relegated.

Pompey lost the game 1 – 0 and went on a run of form that left them near certainties for relegation in mid-March but O ' Neil's performance in a crucial 1 – 1 draw against Bolton Wanderers saw him keep his place in the starting XI.

They finished 14th in the First Division and for the second season running Saunders managed a team to the Football League Cup final, but once again they lost – this time to Wolverhampton Wanderers.

Despite two famous victories over old rivals Wolverhampton Wanderers in the semi finals, Albion lost 1 – 0 to Derby County in the Wembley final.

They made it to the FAI Cup final and after a number of replays against Bray Wanderers they lost, leaving themselves with nothing to show, bar the Irish News Cup, for what is considered to be one of their most impressive seasons.

They disposed of Bray Wanderers in the semi-finals but lost in the final to local rivals Derry City, who had finished ninth in that season's Premier Division.

Speed's father and sons were again present a week later at the Reebok Stadium, as another of his son's former teams Bolton Wanderers lost 2-1 to Aston Villa.

After Tottenham lost 2 – 0 to Bolton Wanderers in Berbatov's first league match in England on 19 August 2006, he scored his first goal for Spurs three days later in a 2 – 0 home victory against Sheffield United.

There was certainly previous incidents for example on 3 May 1952 Corinthian-Casuals lost 0-4 at Wycombe Wanderers and at the same time drew 1-1 with St. Albans City at Champion Hill in Isthmian League fixtures.

In a League Cup game less than a week later, he helped his side recover from being 3 – 1 down at half-time to win 8 – 3 against Wycombe Wanderers, scoring two goals in the second half comeback.

He made his return in the second game of the season against Bolton Wanderers on 23 August 2008, coming on in the 53rd minute for the injured Obafemi Martins.

Four days later Owen scored his first league goal of the season as he netted United's second equaliser with his first touch in a 2 – 2 away draw against Bolton Wanderers.

The Wanderers batting improved the following morning, and they added 145 runs for the second innings, declaring their innings closed with five wickets down.

Toller was the pick of the Wanderers bowlers in the second innings, claiming seven wickets and conceded nine runs.

Founded as a team for the English community in Montreal, they joined the Montreal Canadiens, who appealed to the French Canadian population ; this was the first time since 1918, when the Montreal Wanderers folded, that Montreal would have a second hockey team.

Despite his age, he continued to score regularly ( being the second highest Premier League scorer in 1996 – 97 with 23 goals ), and on 13 September 1997 he broke Cliff Bastin's Arsenal goalscoring record with a hat-trick against Bolton Wanderers ( a record since surpassed by Thierry Henry in October 2005 ).

The 1908 Wanderers team scratched their names inside the bowl, which was just prior to the second band being added to the Cup.

The Wanderers would lose the Cup they had held for two years, finishing second place in the ECAHA to Ottawa.

Kinnaird played in for Wanderers ) gives a concise description of the style of combination adopted by the club, particularly in the section which describes the second and third goals, After a “ hand ” within thirty yards of the Wanderers ’ lines, Weir got possession, and, successfully charging the English forwards, passed it on to Herriot, who in turn placed it to Campbell, who by a well judged kick dropped the ball just below the bar, thus securing another goal for the Scotsmen in sixteen minutes.

Coventry's record attendance was also set in this year – officially recorded as 51, 455, ( although many people who were at that game suggest the attendance was a lot higher, possibly much over 60, 000 ) against Wolverhampton Wanderers, the team that finished a close second to Coventry at the top of the table.

On 17 May 2009, Yuvraj picked up his second Twenty20 hat-trick against Deccan Chargers at the Wanderers Stadium in Johannesburg.

Notts County made up for this on 31 March 1894, when they won the FA Cup at Goodison Park, defeating Bolton Wanderers 4 – 1 in a game in which Jimmy Logan scored the second hat-trick in FA Cup final history.

In the semi-final Cheltenham beat Wycombe Wanderers 2 – 1 away and drew 0 – 0 in the second leg at Whaddon Road.

On 4 December, he scored his second goal of the season at Ewood Park against Wolverhampton Wanderers in the 43rd minute, playing the full 90 minutes in a 3-0 victory.

On 22 August 1998, Bellamy scored Norwich's 5000th league goal in competitive football, scoring the second ( a penalty ) in the Canaries 4 – 2 win over Queens Park Rangers Despite this personal high, he missed two months of that season through injury after a clash with Wolverhampton Wanderers defender Kevin Muscat, but still managed to have a successful season, amassing 17 goals in 38 appearances.

This loss left Swindon second in the table behind Wycombe Wanderers.

He had to wait almost two years for his second cap, which came against Scotland on 3 April 1954, the same day that his club West Bromwich Albion were playing rivals Wolverhampton Wanderers in a vital First Division match.

Charlton Athletic are their nearest challengers in second place, with Bolton Wanderers, West Ham United ( newly promoted ) and Manchester United completing the top five.

* 15 April 2006 — Sheffield United become the second side to secure promotion to the Premier League after they beat Cardiff City while Watford and Leeds United only draw with Wolverhampton Wanderers and champions Reading respectively.

* Wanderers Stadium second wicket partnership record: 182 with Andrew Strauss, 2004 – 05 v South Africa

With eight league matches of the 2001 – 02 season remaining, Albion lay in third place in the First Division on 67 points, 11 points behind rivals Wolverhampton Wanderers, who occupied the second automatic promotion spot.

* Wanderers is also used as the second part of the name of various sports teams, including: