BOLTON Wanderers are determined to make up for their Champions League disappointment by being crowned the "Best of the Rest" when the Premiership season ends on May 13.

Defeat at Arsenal on Saturday effectively put paid to any hope of the Whites claiming a top four finish.

And Everton's dramatic 2-1 victory over Charlton yesterday meant they dropped to sixth, behind the Merseysiders, on goal difference.

But Sam Allardyce and his players have no intention of settling just for one of the three UEFA Cup places thatv are now available following Chelsea's FA Cup semi-final victory over Blackburn Rovers.

The target now is to finish fifth, where they have spent the majority of the season, securing their best ever Premiership placing and their best top flight finish for 48 years.

Allardyce, who had his doubts even before seeing Wanderers lose 2-1 at the Emirates Stadium, finally conceded that, for this season at least, the Champions League dream was over.

But, with Everton, Portsmouth, Reading and Tottenham all serious contenders in the fight for a UEFA Cup place, he insists there is still much to be decided and much to play for in the four remaining games, starting with Steve Coppell's Reading at the Reebok on Saturday.

"If we'd got a result, even just a point at Arsenal, we could still have gone for it," the manager said, acknowledging that Wanderers had blown their chances of breaking the dominance of the Big Four.

"But the main aim, as it has always been, is to finish top of our league' and top of our league' means fifth.

"I think that would be a major plus for a club like ours.

"What I don't want is to see us ebb away in the last four games because we've been here for so long that we want to see it through.

"It would be a major achievement for this football club to finish fifth in the Premiership and we don't want to let that go, because that would be an anti-climax.

"In the end, if we do finish in the UEFA Cup, that's fine, but we really want fifth spot to show what a magnificent season we've had."

Wanderers will go into the Reading game without Ivan Campo, who will be banned for one match - his third suspension of the season - following his 85th minute dismissal for two bookable offences at Arsenal