17th February 2004

FOLLOWING the painful defeat on Tuesday night it was important we did not cause a ‘knee jerk’ reaction in the way in which we reflect on a night of Football which could ultimately condemn Wolves to Nationwide Football next season.

The determination which has seen Wolves take valuable points off the likes of Manchester United and Liverpool in recent weeks was not evident on Tuesday and it will be hard for the Fans to re-discover the same hope of achieving the impossible they had prior to the Leeds game.

 Winning breeds confidence whilst being hammered does the opposite, with extreme effect. Wolves are now stuck at the bottom of the Premier League and staring Division One in the face, however another glimpse of the performance level which saw Wolves take points off some of Footballs elite could shoot Wolves north and towards the direction of safety.

 It’s hard to take positives from such a devastating set-back but Vio Ganea is showing his true colours and Carl Cort can only get better, add to that the return of Paul Ince and the influential Henri Camara and things start to look slightly brighter than they did when the full-time whistle blew at Elland Road several days ago.

 The most optimistic Wolves Fan would not have believed that Wolves could have finished the season with just two defeats and clinched promotion to the Premiership after the defeat to Bradford City towards the end of December 2002, so why should the most pessimistic Wolves fan not believe that Wolves can perform the impossible and clinch survival in the Premier League in 2004?

 It’s how we bounce back from this latest set-back which really matters now, but with our home record as good as it is, nothing says we can’t beat Fulham.

 We overturned the curse of the South Dressing Room at the Millennium Stadium in May, we overturned the odds the bookies had set against Manchester United in January, so what is stopping us bringing a halt to the curse which claims that every side bottom of the Premiership on Christmas Day goes down?

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