Brighton

‘Please go and buy a striker Fosun,’ implored ex-Wolves player Mel Eves, whose pained cry was coming over loud and clear on the radio airwaves. Mel made the task sound so straightforward. Beauty, after all, is in the eye of the beholder. Had a pre-season purchase involved unfashionable matchwinner Glenn Murray, most of us would […]

It’s funny, you suffer the first defeat in months and find yourself envying the opposition and lamenting your own team’s suddenly obvious shortcomings. Cynical I know, but that’s just how it goes. As instrumental as Neves and Moutinho have been for instance, there’s no doubt the mobility and brute power of Abdoulaye Doucouré offered Watford […]

At least the ‘supporter experience’ away from the pitch is slowly changing for the better, with a master-blaster missile launcher sending T-shirts high into the stands for fans to clamber over empty seats for. Embed from Getty Images Meanwhile, a couple of wolves (or huskies of some description) were paraded as the teams entered the […]

I think we’re safe from relegation. That’s the only big plus to come out of last weekend. Embed from Getty Images   For Blackburn to make up 11 points on us with only 15 left to play for (18 in our case) seems unlikely. Add to that all the teams between us and the bottom […]

When Kenny Jackett had amassed 15 points from the opening 13 games of last season on a shoestring budget, the natives were restless. Embed from Getty Images Yet after an extraordinary summer of shenanigans and a storyline of Sky Dream Team proportions, here we sit, a solitary point better off under Walter Zenga, with two […]

There’s been some tough away fixtures in the first quarter of the season. Embed from Getty Images After tonight we’ll have played Brighton, Villa, Newcastle, Blues and Huddersfield. Assuming this match follows a similar pattern to those other fixtures, we’ll have been competitive with everyone, which must give Walter Zenga belief. Wolves seem to be […]