Bom Dia! and welcome. It’s time once again to visit Molineux, where after a frustrating start to season six, Nick and his Portuguese Wolves have finally started to pick up some form. Can they keep up the good work with a Champions League quarter final against a European heavyweight looming?…
We’re 8th at the halfway point of the season. Goals were a problem at the start, but we’ve finally got our act together in that department and the results have come with it. We’re only 4 points off the top, so it’s still very much all to play for. Let’s see where this week takes us…
I’m happy to say that we pick up where we left off last week, destroying second-from-bottom Blackburn as Coelho makes it nine goals in seven games, accompanied by The Boa and JP.
It’s rare I feel I’ve earned these awards, but after winning every match we’ve played in December, I do feel deserving this time…
My loan keeper is recalled by his parent club. He never played, but served his purpose…
Our next FA Cup game is an all-Midlands affair with Birmingham, and it’s plain sailing for an hour. The Blues then start to improve, and hit back twice, but we survive the cupset, and will play Sheffield United in the next round…
Just when I was starting to get a settled team that was playing well, one of my first-choice centre backs is out for 3 months. Ah shucks!
From one cup to the other now, and Batigol breaks the Fishlock… sorry, deadlock for Leeds before Amaral forces extra time, but Cafu strikes to cross one piece of silverware off the list of possibilities for us this season…
After a fruitful few weeks full of goals, we’re back to not being able to hit a barn door again at Newcastle, as Denilson proves that the bottom of the table curse is still very much with us all these years down the line…
But the loss at St. James’ Park proves to only be a minor blip for the time being at least, as we slice The Blades’ open with Coelho on target yet again as he and Picão steel the points…
Unfortunately a week later, we can’t repeat the same feat against the same team in the FA Cup, as Charvet grabs a brace to cut our dreams of cup glory to absolute ribbons…
The second Spanish deadline day arrives, and I let Delfim leave after he slipped further down the pecking order following Gomes’ arrival…
Liverpool have just sold Solskjaer to Chelsea, Fowler is injured, they’re 16th in the table and winless in 6 games, which is all promising, but obviously they still manage to f*cking beat us.
This man appears to be quickly gaining a reputation as the new Luis Miguel Pinto…
We’ve not had a draw in a while, so decide to throw one in against 14th-placed Wimbledon. The only plus is that neither Carl Cort or Marcus Gayle scored against us for a change…
We’re missing both first-choice centre backs at Bolton, and it’s another sh*t show as Manarte scores against us for the umpteenth time. How we’re even still in the top half I don’t know…
And as if things weren’t bad enough, Coelho and JP are now both suspended for two games, so our immediate goal-scoring hopes lie with Loja and forgotten man, Pedro Pauleta.
I fear the worst at Elland Road, but amazingly we lead at half time after scoring both of our shots on target. Batigol pulls one back, and Dani Pauleta, who replaced his namesake, Pedro, makes sure of 3 much-needed points…
We get to half time against Ipswich with 4 shots on target but no goals and their keeper is already on a rating of 8. I think I know what’s coming, but it actually turns out to be quite easy in the end, probably largely down to their red card, but I couldn’t give a flying f*ck…
Our league form may be patchy and we might be out of both domestic cups, but…
Here’s the quarter-final draw. We’re flying the English flag after Liverpool went out in the group stage, and one potential plus is that it’s not season one Juventus, in fact their squad is almost unrecognisable. Let’s f*cking go!
Well, I was NOT expecting this. We’re in dreamland from the start as we find ourselves 2-0 up inside 10 minutes, and Coelho makes it 3-0 at half time. The red card certainly helps, but I’m absolutely fuming at conceding twice. Let’s just see what happens in the second leg…
Three days later we go from the unexpected to the expected, as we’re welcomed back to domestic life with another shite result, as 11th-placed Barnsley become the latest team to rob us of points. Unbelievable.
Poor old Pedro. Just as well he’s not playing…
It’s absolute bedlam for the first half an hour at home against Arsenal with no less than seven goals, and then as if by magic, it quietens down and nothing else happens. All that matters is the result though…
So, to our biggest game to date… One of the plus points from the first leg was that Del Piero was suspended, but he’s back for this one, and gets the visitors off and running as our dreams are well and truly crushed within the first half an hour. Oh well, it was nice while it lasted…
Moving on from that disappointment, the league is now all we have left to play for. Miraculously we’re 4th with 9 games to go. We’re 7 points off top, but after wasting countless opportunities to put ourselves in the title race, we only have ourselves to blame…
Join us next week for the remaining 9 league games against Villa, Middlesbrough, Everton, Chelsea, Coventry, Leicester, Man Utd, Sheff Wed and Sunderland. It would be nice to finish at least 2nd to secure Champions League football again, or could we even do the unthinkable? Adeus!
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