Huddled in the warmth of a corporate box at Southampton back in 2009, I looked out at the desolate St Mary’s stadium, save for Charlton’s defeated players warming down in sub-zero temperatures after Johnstone’s Paint Trophy defeat. Carl Ikeme jogs alone, steam rising from perished head. Floodlights shine at nothing. A lone groundsman prods at […]
Transfers, tantrums and teenagers
Old habits die hard amongst some Wolves fans. In the moments before and after the January transfer window closed, many were moaning about a lack of activity like the bad old days, as if Mujangi Bia and Jan Budtz were the two players through the door. Rather than lament the lack of ‘first-team ready’ recruits […]
Wolves 0 Man Utd 0
A dazzling light show and booming pyrotechnics played out to a Stairway to Heaven soundtrack to millions of households. …It was as if Christmas hadn’t even arrived. Let’s pretend it was December 24 instead, and a shared name in the hat for round 4 is the present under the tree. It’s a hat that does […]
Norwich City 1 Wolves 2
Those footballing gods have a funny way of working – if you care to believe in them in the first place. Punishing Wolves for profligacy against Spurs in our last fixture, and doing likewise to Norwich City in this, when the game should have been buried at half-time. But boy, doesn’t it feel good when they’re smiling our […]
Wolves 1 Tottenham 2
A penny for Adama Traoré’s thoughts. Having flirted with serious injury after traversing the most cynical of challenges from Alderweireld, Kane, Dier and company, breaking point finally came. Our man-of-the-match’s shoulder bore the brunt in injury time (rather than his medial or cruciate ligaments, thankfully) and he lay stricken on the turf, as referee Stuart Attwell presumably […]
You got to let me know
Talk of Nuno staying or going evokes memories of Bully in ’95 and the time he was off to Coventry. Nearly 30 years have passed since The Clash barked along to a Midlands Today montage and in all the years since, only Nuno is worthy of mention in the same ‘cult’ conversation. ‘Darling you got […]
