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. […]
Wolves Vs Chelsea Preview
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 […]
Chelsea Vs Wolves Preview
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 […]
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 […]
Wolves Vs Chelsea Preview
The thing that disappointed me most about the Cardiff defeat was that we played into their hands. We sat too deep, rarely put a foot on the ball and forced far too many long, aimless passes forward. In doing all that it made for a slippery, end to end contest that they were much better […]
Wolves 0 Chelsea 2
There was as much to lament as admire about this gutsy performance against the best team in the land. Embed from Getty Images The Premier League leaders were pushed and pulled for an hour, but as great teams do they absorbed the punishment and ultimately cantered over the finish line. George Saville could have […]
