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…
Bom Dia! It’s that time of the week again, so let’s check in with Nick, who has just about calmed down after a frustrating time last week. Can he and his Portugueezers bounce back after a less than impressive recent run of results?Here’s Nick with the latest…
The league table isn’t looking great, but things aren’t as bad as they seem because we have a game in hand, and if we can win that, it’ll take us up to joint 3rd place, so let’s try and do just that to start this week as we mean to go on…
BomDia! and happy Valentine’s Day to all you Champ lovers out there! Nick and his Portuguese Wolf pack have just enjoyed their best season yet, finishing runners-up in the Premiership. Can they build on it?…
The dust has barely settled after our final game, and I’m straight to work on the squad. Riccy is first to depart…
Bom Dia! It’s Friday, and time to visit Nick and his squad of Portuguese talentat Wolves, who are well-positioned in season 6 with 15 games left. Can they hang on for another European finish or perhaps even better? Here’s the man himself…
Liverpool are emulating their real life “Slot Machine” at the minute, and closing that 10-point gap is a lot to ask, but let’s see if we can at least give them a run for their money…
Bom Dia! and welcome back to Molineux as we check in with Nick to see how he and his Portuguese-only Wolves squad are getting on. A change in formation has seen them start season six impressively, but they’ve always struggled with consistency, so can they keep it up? Here’s Nick with the latest…
After twelve games were 4th, which isn’t to be sniffed at. Liverpool lead the way just as in real life, but 5 points isn’t an insurmountable gap, so let’s see what we can do to catch them.
Bom Dia!and welcome to season six with Nick and his squad of Portuguese Wolves. After getting to the Premiership at the third time of asking, they’ve finished 4th and 11th and got to the UEFA Cup semis, so what will this season hold in store?Over to Nick…
Here’s our Graham with a quick reminder of the squad before we get into the action. After the disappointment of last season, I bought some fullbacks over the summer in the hope that a change in formation might mean a change in fortunes. So, let’s get started…
BomDia! and happy Friday to you. Capping another full week of Blog Squad adventures is Nick with his Portuguese Wolves, who are in with a sniff of European football with just five games of the season remaining, so how will it all unravel? Over to Nick…
Here’s how things stand. After last season’s 4th place finish, I was quietly confident going into this campaign, but it’s been a bit of a topsy-turvy season, and we’ve never really properly got going, so if we do manage to sneak a European place, I’ll be over the bloody moon.
Bom Dia! and welcome once again to more Friday frolics with Nick and his squad of Portuguese Wolves, who after making a great start to their second season in the Premiership, have been going through a blip lately. Can they sort it out this week?…
Despite sliding from 4th to 9th last week, we’re only 6 points off 2nd spot, so it’s not actually as bad as it sounds. Let’s see how many places we can climb with just 16 games remaining…
We start by getting knocked out of the FA Cup at the hands of Sheffield United, as José Veiga has a debut to forget in our goal. There’s no shame in conceding a Tom Youngs strike, but I’ve no idea who the other bloke is…
Old Trafford has been a surprisingly happy hunting ground for us so far, but despite being 10th, United are in no mood to be messed around, and lead after 5 minutes, but we battle back and leave with a well-earned point.
Oddly, we have a 3-week break with no game before facing league leaders and midlands rivals, Aston Villa. We look to be heading for another good point, only to come unstuck at the end and leave with Niel points…
The recent slump hasn’t gone unnoticed by the board, and after being in the Premiership for just under two seasons now, apparently 8th place is no longer good enough for them…
But just as all is starting to look lost, things finally take a turn for the better in front of a record 36,997 spectators against 4th-placed Leicester, thanks to Pauleta, who gives us a 1-0 lead to sit on for the remaining 87 minutes…
We follow the narrow win over the foxes with another against rock-bottom Spurs, where the usually invincible Ian Walker has a rare off-day and is surprisingly easy to score against, as Capucho and Pauleta do the damage.
European football returns after a 3-month break, and we make it three wins in as many games with a solid away performance on Tyneside to put one foot (or paw, seeing that we’re Wolves) in the UEFA Cup semi finals…
A visit from Wednesday is all about the fours… Pauleta scores for the fourth game running to set us on the way to a fourth win in a row, but despite a red card, the visitors equalise four minutes from the final whistle. Four f*ck sake!
The points are shared again in a rescheduled midweek catch up game at Elland Road, which extends our recent unbeaten run to 5 games, but I’d rather the two extra points. This Cassin bloke is really starting to p*ss me off…
A dismal stalemate at Stamford Bridge with 17th-placed Chelsea follows, thanks mainly to Mickael Landreau again, but it’s not all doom and gloom as the point lifts us to 6th place…
My keeper’s fine form is finally rewarded with a call up to the national side, well done Miggy.
And carrying on the four theme, Newcastle take the lead in the fourth minute, but we grab a late equaliser to make it four draws in a row and progress to the last four of the UEFA Cup…
Our reward for despatching The Toon is a quarter of a million and a semi with Real Madrid. Oh joy…
Liverpool end our unbeaten run in a match that’s all done and dusted inside 7 minutes. It probably should have been a heavier defeat, but our keeper is man of the match and most of the defenders have 8/10, which says it all…
The arrival of Veiga means that I now have four keepers, so I say a permanent Ciao to Cao.
And Hugo Porfirio, who has quite frankly been useless, has the choice between Southend, Carlisle and Chesterfield, and opts for the latter…
There are no deadline day incomings, but I decide to let Manarte leave as we’ve got a lot of strikers, with Alexandre doing well out on loan and staking his claim for next season…
We’ve enjoyed playing Newcastle lately, and in our third meeting with them in a month, Pinto marks his return from injury with a goal, and his midfield partner in crime joins him on the score sheet to take us up to 5th in the table…
I was frustrated after all those draws, so this is a nice surprise…
To the UEFA Cup semis then, and our trip to the Bernabéu goes about as badly as it can, the only silver lining being two away goals, which may or may not come in handy depending on how many we let them score in the second leg.
We’ve never managed to shake off our ability to throw in pathetic performances against the bottom teams. Scoring two against 15th-placed Barnsley would have been great if we didn’t give them a 3-0 head start. The Little Tykes…
We wrap this week up at Craven Cottage, where we take the lead somewhat against the run of play, and the hosts are deservedly level in no time. Try as we may, we just can’t find a winner, and it’s two more points dropped…
So here’s the table after all of that, and after a winning a few and climbing up to 5th, some poor results have seen us drop back down to 9th, where we started this week. We’re only two points outside the European places with four games left though, so all is not lost yet…
A quick look at the squad before we go, and after a few sales, we’re down to my preferred size of 26, with most of the youngsters out on loan getting valuable experience…
So that’s it for another week. Join me again next week for the final 5 league games against Bolton, Birmingham, Arsenal, Coventry and Sheffield United, as well as that second leg with Real Madrid. It’s also a World Cup summer, so we’ll be following Portugal’s progress in Japan to pass some time in the close season. See you then. Adeus!
Bom Dia!And happy new year to you! Nick and his Portuguese Wolves are back from the festive break to give you your Friday fix of Champ once again. They were in a great position when we stopped for Christmas, but will that continue this week? Here’s Nick…
After just under a third of the season, we sit in fourth place, equal on everything with Liverpool but with a better goal difference, so not too shabby so far. Let’s get cracking…
Bom Dia! It’s Friday again, and that can only mean that Nick is back to resume his Portuguese adventure with Wolves, who have just finished 4th in their first season in the Premiership. Will European football help attract any big names to Molineux over the summer?…
I’ll start with an apology… some of you may have noticed that last week, I said I was taking a break from this adventure to bring you something special this week. Unfortunately, that something special isn’t quite ready yet, but good things come to those who wait…
So back to Molineux we go, and we start with an outgoing as Soares heads to Spain. He only played 3 games this season, but was a bit of a stopgap anyway…
