Chelsea

I’ve been blithering on about poor refereeing for the last month, so accept my sincere apologies if you think I’m overreacting, but this was another category A blunder. Two weeks ago, Chris Wood nearly takes Matt Doherty’s head off at Burnley and it’s completely overlooked to deny us any chance of finishing in the top […]

Whatever happens on Sunday, it’s been a wonderful season. We can’t finish any lower than seventh, we’ve already beaten last season’s points tally and there’s still the Europa League to follow. If you’d asked any Wolves fan at the starting pistol I’m certain 99.99% would have been delighted with such a result. There have been […]

A balmy evening in Belfast sure feels like a long time ago. A love affair with something new, where nothing felt impossible and time in an ornate Irish bar felt infinite. Forty-five days have passed since we embarked on that Crusade and in the space of 45 minutes against Chelsea, it felt like a lifetime. […]

The 2-1 win in this fixture last time out might well have been the most important result of the season. It triggered an upturn in form at a pivotal point in the campaign after a run of defeats threatened to drag us down towards the bottom third of the table. Nuno changed the tactics and […]

The 2-1 triumph over Chelsea in December was a crucial turning point in the season. Wolves had gone two months without a win and questions were rightly being asked about whether Nuno and the squad had the tactical dexterity to compete in the Premier League. Plan A wasn’t working and Plan B had yet to […]

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 […]