I was full of pride watching Great Britain achieve their great haul of medals in Beijing, but why was it that for the entire Olympic fortnight that Great Britain had to be referred to with the truncated title: ‘Team GB?’
The Spanish Olympic squad didn’t call themselves “Equipo España”? So why did we have to give our team such a quaint little name?
Our country is “Great Britain” and, as far as I’m aware, it as always been referred to at the Olympics and other sporting events under this name.
With only a couple of games into the season, Mr. Morgan has announced the possibility of generating extra revenue by bringing in a sponsor and renaming Molineux.
Not for me, sorry. Why discuss this and the rebuilding of the ground at a time when 100 per cent of our focus should be on what’s happening on the pitch?
What sponsor would we attract anyway in the Championship? Arsenal has ‘the Emirates,’ and what would we have, ‘the Asda?’
I know that Steve Morgan is trying to look to the future, by talking about a 40,000 Molineux and generating extra finances. I would like discussions like that to stay behind closed doors, especially as we are getting in average gates below 23,000.
Anyway back to footballing matters. How many people have used one of the phrases, ‘concentrating on the league’ or ‘mickey mouse cup,’ this week?
We followed up our majestic win at Portman Road by being knocked out of this silly cup by the Millers.
I always enjoy seeing Wolves in the hat for a cup draw, but to coin yet another clichéd phrase, ‘we were never going to win, so who cares.’
Mixed fortunes for a couple of last season’s signings this week. Little George Nganyuo Elokobi looks like missing either a good chunk or possibly the rest of the season with knee ligament damage.
George was beginning to give us some real penetration from that full back position. His tackling had improved from last season, so he will be a big loss.
Let’s hope he makes a speedy recovery and we see him back in the team before the season is out.
On the flip side, congrats to SEB on his England U-21 inclusion, just reward for a brilliant end of last season.
Old Wolves boy Keith Andrews has finally got his dream move to Blackburn from the MK Dons confirmed. I always thought that Keith got a bit of a rough ride at Molineux and never really had the opportunity he deserved.
Given the chance at the Dons he has improved massively as a player and a leader on the pitch. I know a few Wolves fans were scratching their head that he has gone to Blackburn, but I won’t be surprised if he does a decent job up there.
Only a few days until the transfer window shuts up shop until the New Year. With Craddock and now Elokobi both out, it’s not difficult to see where Mick’s focus will be.
Yes, that’s right, up front! Just kidding, but it’s no surprise to see Roy Keane upping the price of Higginbotham for his best pal McCarthy is it?
Hopefully with Rio’s younger and slightly rubbish brother moving to the Stadium of Light for a ridiculous £8million, this should leave the path clear for Wolves to snap up Higginbotham for a reasonable fee.
I was probably unfair on Mick in my last blog (which I was guilty of quite a bit last season) in saying that he hasn’t tried hard enough to get in defensive recruits.
We all know Balde wanted a ridiculous salary, so let him go to Brum where the parachute payments will be burning a hole in their pockets. Without our “Asda” stadium sponsorship, he is out of our financial reach!
Anyway, I’m sure Mick and his team of scouts will come good with a couple of decent defensive signings before the end of September 1. I’d recall Mark Little from Northampton as well, but then I always did think it was a waste to send a player of his abilities on loan there.
Saturday sees us take on newly promoted Forest in a Midlands derby. I still rank the game in February 2000 against Forest at Molineux as the most bizarre game I have ever witnessed.
I was sitting with Steve, a Forest fan, and witnessed the oddest sequence of events I will probably ever see at a football match.
Early on in the game Akinbiyi head butts the unlucky Tony Vaughan. Ade quite rightly receives his marching orders and then when Tony comes to, he receives his marching orders as well!
The weirdest moment was reserved for Michael Branch. Forest keeper Dave Beasant, spots Lee Naylor is injured and sportingly boots the ball out of play.
From the resulting throw in Branch, who claimed to not realise what was going on, takes on Beasant and scores. Cue lots of angry scenes on the pitch and laughter in the stadium, apart from my mate Steve who was fuming and still talks about that incident more than 8 years on!
Good luck to “Team Wolverhampton” at “The Asda” on Saturday. I’m going for a 2-0 win.
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