Just as I was tearing apart the keema naan opposite the girl who’d become my wife, the panic set in. In a tatty curry house in the arse-end of Dudley – in the days of Proudlock and Pollet – I looked into the eyes of the rest of my life on our first date, knowing […]
Wolves 2 Chelsea 1
When a blanket of snow and ice covered Wolverhampton last winter, when steam rose from Diogo Jota’s crumpled body after another assault, some of us cast our minds away from the ceaseless Championship slog and dared to imagine how salvation would present itself if we ever reached the Promised Land. On the sole occasion I […]
Playing the system
Far be it for Wolves fans to exaggerate, but talk of Nuno’s side being the best ever promoted to the Premier League always did feel premature. In my mind, this Wolves side is actually a paler imitation last season’s Championship winners, never mind the best newbies to step foot into the Big Time. Amid all […]
Brighton 1 Wolves 0
‘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 […]
Forget me not
Five years ago – virtually to the day – I was scurrying along Waterloo Road, desperate not to miss a pre-match tribute to Peter Broadbent in the Football League Trophy. The smattering of applause in a ghostly stadium for an all-time great made me cry, more for the painful inadequacy of the send-off than the […]
Wolves 2 Southampton 0
Fireworks at Old Trafford, fireworks before kick-off…It’s a wonder they’ll be any left come the 5th of November. How many points will we amass by then, you wonder, thinking back to the last four seasons in the Premier League when things weren’t half as explosive. Father Christmas was more likely to be making an appearance […]
