‘I could have self-isolated instead of watching that,’ rued an old boy in the Billy Wright toilets after the game. ‘I wish the players had of,’ muttered another, which kind of summed it all up. Playing this game behind closed doors would have done us all a favour in truth, in a game that wasn’t […]
Espanyol 3 Wolves 2 (Wolves Win 6-3 on Aggregate)
The football was largely forgettable, but the experience will live forever. Travelling to Barcelona to watch Wolves play a game of football was always going to be a surreal journey, with League One reminiscing and head-scratching aplenty as we skip around Las Ramblas. A far cry from us shuffling down Waterloo Road in arctic conditions […]
Wolves 4 Espanyol 0
Clutching Chicken Tikka wraps in one hand, polishing Sir Jack’s bronzed shoe for good luck with the other, those befuddled Espanyol fans must have wondered what world they’d entered. Swapping paella for pork scratchings and La Rambla for the ring road, a parallel universe might have felt about right. If it didn’t before kick-off, then […]
Why not me?
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 […]
