Wolves blogger Tim Spiers believes there is nothing wrong of dreaming of the club’s glory days even in what is a very different game today.

If there’s one thing I can’t stand about the Premier League, it’s the never ending gluttonous media hyperbole.

Walcott is world class! Manchester United drop two points in title race! Andy Carroll for England!

So screamed certain newspaper, TV, internet and radio outlets after yet another weekend of fixtures, which no doubt had a cataclysmic effect on next May’s league standings.

In the relentless 24/7 football culture we find ourselves in – embodied perfectly by Sky Sports News – every game, including a pre-season friendly, is a must win and every game carries with it monumental importance.

Mind you, over in the golden seats at Molineux this is something we can well associate with, expectations have long outstripped realisms in this small corner of the football globe.

So, if Chelsea are already champions, Newcastle are safe from the drop and Wigan are doomed for the Championship, what does a four-point haul from two games tell us about how Wolves will fare this season?

Personally I’m optimistic of a fairly comfortable season in mid-table.

The way we so forcefully earned ourselves a point at Goodison Park on Saturday, and proceeded to go for all three once Sylvan Ebanks-Blake had equalised, hints that we’re ready to put a few noses out of joint this year and make a big mark on the division.

One of the most promising aspects of the game was that of the 14 who played only Messrs Hahnemann, Doyle, Halford and Guedioura have been signed since our Championship promotion season.

It’s a sign that our youthful squad are learning on the job as they go and is a testament to the work boss Mick McCarthy and his underappreciated assistant Terry Connor put in day after day behind the scenes.

Three points against Newcastle on Saturday and the expectations bar will be raised even higher – some will be dreaming of top half, even Europe and beyond.

But then that’s our prerogative as lifelong supporters, particularly of a club which once had the right to call itself one of the greatest in the world.

Many of us have been brought up on tales of when Stan Cullis, Billy Wright, Ron Flowers and Peter Broadbent guided us to three – one more than those football powerhouses Manchester City and Tottenham – league titles.

With that in my mind, there’s nothing wrong with dreaming that one day we’ll return to the top step of English football once again.

It’s often been said that the great expectations Wolves fans have are a burden on the players – well, on the contrary, it’s a burden on us, the cursed supporters!

At a club as grand as ours, with the tradition and history we possess, Championship football or Premier League relegation battles are hard to swallow for supporters of a certain vintage.

Plenty was made of the controversial ‘You’ve Let Us Down Again’ banner after the 2002 promotion cock-up but, let’s be honest, it was true.

Wolves had let us down again in the respect that once more we were light years from where we all thought the club should be.

There’s absolutely nothing wrong with dreaming of those 1950s or even 1970s glory days to return.

The problems come when that expectation turns into anger and frustration at the current crop not being good enough to lift us to the highest level.

One man who often played like he took the weight of 28,000 people’s dreams on his shoulder was Andy Keogh.

It wasn’t a surprise to see Keogh move on to pastures new at Cardiff this week, but I for one was sad to see him go.

His many qualities and faults have been the subject of thousands of debates between Wolves fans over the past three years, so I won’t repeat those now.

All I’ll say is that it’s a crying shame that Keogh, for whatever reason, couldn’t quite realise his undoubted potential in a gold shirt.

Unfortunately the same can also be said of Matt Murray whose retirement on Thursday was devastating, if again not unexpected, news.

Murray is without doubt the best goalkeeper I’ve ever witnessed diving around the Molineux goalmouth and I doubt we’ll see a home-grown player as good as him for a very long time.

His two seasons in a Wolves jersey, 2002-03 and 2006-07, carry many fond memories and during the latter campaign in particular Murray was without doubt one of the best goalkeepers in the country.

Without him we certainly wouldn’t have reached the play-offs that year, he single-handedly won us a few games along the way.

Never more so than in that famous 1-0 win over the Baggies at Molineux when Diomansy Kamara must have felt like the ball was magnetically attracted to Murray’s considerable frame.

Another very happy memory from that season was a jubilant win at Leicester on the final day which confirmed our play-off spot.

Murray and Keogh both starred at the Walkers as we trounced the Foxes 4-1 and recalling the sense of unbridled glee and optimism among the travelling gold and black army at the final whistle gives me goosebumps even now.

Keogh’s stock was at its pinnacle that day – in 2007-08 his fall from grace was to be ugly and dramatic.

As for Murray, he never played for Wolves again. Funny old game, as they say.

Right, to finish off I’ve penned a couple more expectations for the coming season.

After being refused the contract to take over the new Olympic stadium after 2012, David Sullivan to claim Lords Cricket Ground as the perfect ground for West Ham when they leave Upton Park.

“We’ll even give the MCC members half price season tickets!!” enthuses Sullivan. “Forget hundreds of years of cricket tradition, that’s in the past ain’t it? The Hammers are the future!

“Bish bash bosh.”

Arsene Wenger to protest about Stoke’s overly physical approach as the Potters claim a gritty 1-1 draw at the Emirates Stadium.

“They’re animals!” screams Wenger. “One of them broke Van Persie’s toenail!”

And what about when Bendtner blatantly dived to win a penalty Mr Wenger? “I didn’t see it.”

Following Albion’s miserable relegation from the Premier League with just 13 points, Baggies chairman Jeremy Peace defends the club’s penny-pinching spending policy and vows they’ll come back stronger than ever in 2012.

“I’ve got big plans for when we get promoted from the Championship again,” he says. “I’ll be stretching the budget to three loan signings.

“We’ve got the long term future of the club in mind, we’re not daft here.”

After Barcelona midfielder Xavi sees a goal ruled out in the Champions League final, despite the balling clearing dropping two feet over the line before bouncing back out again, FIFA president Sepp Blatter promises to introduce goal line technology before the year 2059.

“We want to get this absolutely right,” Blatter says. “Don’t try and tell me FIFA is a backwards organisation.

“For the next World Cup we’re offering women free bikinis with every ticket they buy as long as they promise to wear them in the stadium.

“We aim to please!”

Enjoy the game if you’re going on Saturday. Champions League here we come!