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Wolverhampton Wanderers
February 3, 2010
Posted by Daniel Pountney on 02/03/2010

Whatever Mick McCarthy says about being content with his squad and his two signings from Belgium, he can’t be happy with Wolves’ transfer activity in January.
Two unknowns from a minnow league can’t be what he was expecting when the window opened.
And it certainly wasn’t what us fans were hoping for.
Why oh why did I stay glued to my computer waiting for a big name signing to be announced?
Disappointment is my overwhelming emotion though, not anger.

January 18, 2010
Posted by Daniel Pountney on 01/18/2010

Howard Webb clearly stopped Dave Jones getting to Wolves' summer targer James McCarthy in the 2-0 defeat against Wigan.
The youngster fired the visitors ahead and effectively won the game after Wolves had been earlier reduced to 10 men by the man in black.
Trouble is, there's nothing in the rule book to say Howard should be reprimanded, striken from the employment record or shot.
The truth is he did everything right and we lost because we were poor.
It puts an even greater need on some fresh impetus from the transfer window.

January 11, 2010
Posted by Daniel Pountney on 01/11/2010

The West Ham game was called off and so I missed my Wolves fix at the weekend.
Only some speculation about who might arrive in the transfer window will stop me getting the shakes and coming out in cold sweats.
So here are some of the players we're definitely in for, some we're rumoured to be in for and a few that I wish we were in for.

December 14, 2009
Posted by Daniel Pountney on 12/14/2009

Wow! Back to back Premier League wins, the first top flight victory in the capital since 1066 and out of the bottom three.
After losing to Blues we needed something special to get the survival campaign back on track.
That was it, and as if to illustrate the point, it’s 16 points from 16 games and that is bang on target as we reach the half-way point of the season.

December 8, 2009
Posted by Daniel Pountney on 12/08/2009

Yes, Craddock’s goal was obviously offside and had that decision gone against us, I would be furious.
In fact, Jody was offside when he scored against Stoke too.
But by my reckoning, it’s still 4-2 to the referees.
The men in black denied us certain penalties against Wigan, Portsmouth, Sunderland and Villa so we’re still behind in the decision lottery.

November 30, 2009
Posted by Daniel Pountney on 11/30/2009

It was the most important game of the season so far and we produced our worst performance of the season so far.
With that result we took a big step towards relegation.