February – So Far, So… Meh—But the Rest of the Month Still Looks Exciting
the month and things have gone… Well, not great, but not terrible either. Read More …
Category: Football
A Frustrating Night at the Golden Palace
I honestly think we were the better side against Arsenal last night. Not “just about” the better side, but the better side by some distance. Read More …
Wanderers Blockbuster February
February is going to be a massive month for Wolverhampton Wanderers. Six games in twenty-two days, one very winnable-looking game in the FA Cup followed by five very tough-looking Premier League fixtures. Read More …
Are there any Premier League Clubs still wholly British owned?
I’ve imported some older blog posts of mine from other blogs into this one and going through them I came across this post from 2010 on the sale of Blackburn Rovers to the Indian chicken farmers, the Venkey’s Group. Read More …
End of an Era – #ThankYouNuno
I’m in shock. I was going to write a piece this weekend analysing what ‘went wrong’ this year at Wolves, but that no longer seems appropriate—at least, not in the short term. Read More …
2020/21 – The Season that Football will want to Forget
From the lack of crowds to the burned-out players leading to a higher than usual injury rate, to the utterly abysmal way in which VAR seems to be getting worse, not better and the over-saturation of coverage of TV… It’s just been a bit shit. Read More …
Fatherly Pride
It was with a very fatherly sense of pride that I watched my son’s football coach call him back for a “quick word” after he’d dismissed the rest of the team following their 7-1 victory this weekend. Read More …
Saunders can do a Job
I’ve got to say, I really like the noises coming out of Molineux following the appointment of Dean Saunders as manager. Read More …
@BBCSporf, #SneijderToQPR and the Power of Twitter
This past Thursday and Friday, we had a wonderful example of both the power of Twitter in 2013 and the way that Football has sold it soul to a media that laps up everything to do with it, no matter how dubious the source. @BBCSporf is a classic example of a parody twitter account. It Read More …
Steve Mogan’s Big Decision
I posted about this on Facebook a couple of days ago, but I’m going to expand on it here. Wolves owner, Steve Morgan, has a massive decision to make in the next few days. Massive. Does he hold his nerve and trust in his initial judgement regarding Stale Solbakken’s appointment as manager, or does he Read More …