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Life in 2020 has been a year of firsts for many, and I’m no exception. This is the first time I’ve watched a Wolves home game with a bottle of white wine in tow. It was a nice tipple but, like all of you, I’d much rather be at Molineux. Nuno is right when he […]

I’m not a fan of lazy analysis, but it’s impossible to overlook the difference between first and second half performances. The Wolves formula is start conservative, get a foothold and wait for the game to open up. It’s yielded great results, so it’s hard to be critical of this approach. But against sides who are […]

Twitter, as many Wolves fan know, is not always the go-to destination for reasoned football analysis.  But credit to the chap who rightly summarised that if Andy Carroll had been in our squad today, he’d have been the best player on our bench. Because that adequately underlines the paucity of options at Nuno’s disposal. No […]

Half time in the game at St. James’ Park was a pivotal moment in the season. It was the first game without Willy Boly and Nuno’s experiment playing Matt Doherty in the back three had failed. Cue a change of formation, Dendoncker into defence, Traore further forward, Doherty in his natural position and all of […]

With Saturday ruined by news of Willy Boly’s ankle, Sunday was also veering precariously close to Misery Street. Trust Nuno to come up with an idea nobody else had thought of to fill the considerable void created by the big man’s absence, deploying Matt Doherty on the right side of a back three. It didn’t […]

The best teams – more often than not – find a way to win. Whether it’s through quality, resilience or outrageous good fortune, coming out on top becomes second nature. Wolves are rediscovering the habit having delivered the goods without being at their best so many times last season, including this very fixture. We didn’t […]