Crystal Palace

Thoughts of Crystal Palace at home invariably bring on the cold sweats if you’re a football fan of my vintage. If it wasn’t Chris Armstrong wedging one in the stanchion, it’d be Bruce Dyer taking the pegs out the North Bank net. If Iain Dowie wasn’t bicycle-kicking my FA Cup dreams into obliteration, then Darren […]

I agreed with those saying the team selection wasn’t right at West Ham. It’s easy to be critical with hindsight and only Bruno Lage knows who was physically up to starting the game so soon after Arsenal, but Wolves looked weak and disjointed. The main issue was that you had a lightweight from three who […]

That was the performance of a soft midtable side. Disappointing but not entirely unpredictable. We exchanged punches with Palace in a dull first half but when they upped the pace in the second, we simply fell away. It’s for Bruno Lage to determine why that was and in doing so he must also look at […]

What a pleasant moment. Top of the Premier League form table over the last 5 matches and back to what used to be our typical perch of 7th in the overall standings. OK, we’ve squeaked through in a lot of those contests, but we have to be humble enough to recognise our shortcomings and accept […]

If anyone was still in denial about Wolves being in a relegation scrap, they can be in no doubt now. In what must rank as the most spineless, characterless and listless performance since the days of Dean (not including our A****n surrender), we couldn’t be bothered to run off the ball when we had it […]

We might have camped out in our defensive third at Stamford Bridge, but there were still opportunities to score at the other end. The free-kick Neves ballooned over, the Dendoncker header in the first half, another chance for the Belgian in the second when he failed to control Neto’s through ball and of course the […]