Liverpool 0 Wolves 1
Wednesday 29th December 2010, 10:00PM GMT.
Stephen Ward may never score a more important goal after bagging the winner for a completely deserved win for super Wolves at Anfield.
Makeshift striker Ward struck his first in 130 games after boyhood Liverpool fan and man of the match Sylvan Ebanks-Blake split the Reds’ defence in the 56th minute.
It was apt for the Irishman, who left Anfield under a cloud on Boxing Day last year after he was sent off in the corresponding fixture of 2009/10.
And Wolves held on without much trouble as goalkeeper Wayne Hennessey made just one save all game, from Raul Meireles in the seventh minute.
The win ended a run of seven straight away defeats for Mick McCarthy’s battling side to give them a first success on the road since March 23 at West Ham.
Victory also moved them off the bottom and to within a point of safety – setting it all up nicely for their trip to the Hammers on New Year’s Day.
The national headlines will no doubt be all about Roy Hodgson’s future as Liverpool manager.
But that shouldn’t detract from an overwhelmingly deserved win for Wolves – their first at Anfield since 1984.
And there were giant performances all round as they kept only their second clean sheet of the season.
Manager Mick McCarthy made one change from the side beaten 2-1 by Wigan on Boxing Day with the return of Matt Jarvis for David Edwards, who dropped to the bench.
After Nenad Milijas blazed high and wide from 25 yards, Liverpool went desperately close to taking a seventh minute lead.
A superb quickly-taken free kick from Fernando Torres allowed Meireles to get goal-side of a static George Elokobi, needing the swift intervention of Wayne Hennessey to parry his first effort before Richard Stearman headed away the loose ball.
Wolves kept their composure to win two corners in quick succession and from the second, Stephen Hunt lobbed inches over.
It was the visitors who then had a prolonged period of possession as Roy Hodgson’s side struggled to keep the ball and were often hassled out of their stride by eager Wolves.
Indeed, Wolves continued to make a mockery of their position at the bottom of the table by frustrating a lacklustre Liverpool.
The visitors were more than holding their own and had silenced the Kop.
But they had to be thankful for a block by Christophe Berra to ensure their hard work wasn’t undone, when he got to David Ngog’s curling effort which appeared to be heading for the top corner of the net after the striker turned Stearman.
Nevertheless, Wolves more than held their own going into the break, so much so that the Reds were booed off at the break.
Liverpool started with renewed purpose at the start of the second half – but Wolves had a shock in store for them.
The Reds forced two chances through Ngog.
First his header was held under the bar by Hennessey after he outjumped Elokobi, then he fired wide from the edge of the six-yard box after Glen Johnson beat Elokobi to cross.
Wolves almost got a look-in when a poor kick went straight to Ebanks-Blake, but the busy striker couldn’t get the ball under control quick enough to cause the Spaniard any more embarrassment.
And the visitors were by no means finished.
Ronald Zubar, who struggled so much against Wigan, suddenly turned up on the left wing and remained further forward moments later as he almost turned home Ebanks-Blake’s cross, forcing goalkeeper Pepe Reina into a diving save.
The away side continued to press and a cross from Elokobi was diverted wide by Ebanks-Blake.
But the goal Wolves had been threatening duly came in the 56th minute, when Ward poked home through Reina’s legs after Ebanks-Blake put him through following a poor clearing header from Sotirios Kyrgiakos.
Ward’s effort stunned the Kop and there were more anxious moments for Liverpool,as some chaotic defending allowed Kevin Foley to dance through only for his goalbound shot to be deflected wide with only Reina to beat.
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Good win. Baggies losing yesterday puts the icing on the cake! Bring on west ham!!! Ding dong!!!!!!!
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How good were Wolves? Superb in defence, composed on the ball and the SEB worked fearlessly in attack. How rubbish was the wolves bashing commentary from Andy Gray not a positive word spoken just how pool Liverpool were. Get over the fact they sold you.
Back to the point or 3. Well deserved lads.
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HaHa anyone catch WARD’s arshavin/tevez thumb in the mouth celebration for his baby boy CLASSIC!! He is such an idiot its 2 funny, for 1 night and 1 night only you are a ledge WARD, no doubt headlines will be about Mick but that performance was all down to the players, YES liverpool were really poor and couldnt put 2 passes together but we took the game to them!! Bring on WEST HAM
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well done to the lads,..well deserved, made xmas a little brighter for a lot of us!!
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Ermmm where has this stephen ward been hiding all this time?! Never seen him before!!! Well done mick you play a CF in a CF position and look what happens…Simples wasn’t it! Lol yeh his celebration was a bit like your dad dancing but we can give him that, feeling much better about west ham now!
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All you boneheads who dare to question Super Mick’s tactical nous and understanding…..
Look, listen and learn !!
Brilliant
Hello Bangkok Wolf
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After the Wigan game I said Wolves were perverse enough to win at Liverpool! But perverse is not the word….they were so committed, so brilliantly set up by Mick closing down on the Liverpool back 4 at every opportunity and even keeping possession. Brilliant !!!!
And all praise to Mick…so courageous to keep more or less the same team after Wigan!!
My explanation of the Wigan debacle?…..we were match-rusty like Liverpool were tonight !
UTW for ever ! Stan
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Bye bye Woy, please do us a favour and quit! Hopefully mr Henry will see sense. Bring back Kenny
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saw this game and this is how we should preform, we know we can and we know how to do it but yet we arnt consistent enough, least we aint bottom and we have kept a second clean sheet
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A performance and result which will be rememebered for many a year.
I could not fault any player in the Wolves team, and it would be unfair to name a man of the match. They all were.
This result means we are in touching distance of safety and the season is far from over.
Well done Mick McCarthy and the team. Now for West Ham.
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Explain that !
How can we go from such a dismal performance against Wigan to probably our best ever Premiership display.
Well done MM and the team for a superb display.
SEB again was my MOM but there were a few close behind and well done Stearman after that abysmal display on Boxing day.
Let’s hammer the Hammers …..again !
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Still looking ropey defensively…there’s no way R Dunne will come that i can see, L’pool looked like a team that hadn’t played in weeks…which helped but you still have to beat them. Wolves did, well done Wardy well deserved goal and creditable team performance…if we can do the same on Sat some may start to believe again…
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Thankyou so much for that result tonight lads, really made my christmas. I feel so much more inspired about going to west ham now as well. Cant wait to stop at home new years eve so i am fresh for a day out in london. Up the wolves. Still think we need to get rid of MM though, although i accept many will disagree with me! We are all entilted to our opinion though.
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Watched the game tonight, the difference between this and Wigan was staggering. Closing down, winning second balls, finding players with defensive headers etc. – all the things you’d expect of a team in the top flight and not looking a bit like a team at the bottom of the league.
Same again at West Ham and we should be confident of at least a point but that would mean two quality performances in a row, a rare thing in 2010 but next game is in 2011 – a new year, a new start perhaps.
Well played tonight one and all, now lets start the climb towards safety.
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Historic result, and well deserved by all the players, especially Ward, Hennesy and SEB, clean sheet as well.
We have discovered how to play the offside trap and make some tackles.
I have never knocked Ward’s effort and he played very well again in a forward position for a second time, so why does Mick keep playing him at LB?
However this changes nothing, it was a very poor Liverpool side, we need a new Manager ASAP or we will go down, I just cannot believe that Morgan is going to give him more money in January as some reports are suggesting, I wouldn’t give him a penny.
Will we be complaining about the Arsenal side played today, as this as cost us tonight.
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I hope you lot know how much you drive us poor Wolves fans MAD !
ABYSMAL
SHOCKING
DISGRACE
AWFULL
LAZY
RUBBISH
CRAP
HALF SOAKED
all adjectives that sum up boxing day performance.
WONDERFULL
COMMITTED
SPIRITED
ORGANISED
HARD WORKING
all adjectives that sum up tonights performance.
You have set a benchmark WOLVES, now keep it up!
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Well done Wardy… strange what things happen when you play the players in correct position seh Mick?
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very well done all for the fantastic win tonight……………………………………….. look, lets not get carried away, on our performances all season so far we dont deserve to be 2nd from bottom. I can see a team on 46 maybe 50 points going down come may. West Ham away wont be easy………… Lets get off micks back and trust in him….happy new year all wolves fans and lets hope we get 51 points come may.
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WELL DONE TO ALL AND ESPECIALLY WARD AND STEARMAN.
NO7 Cullis, you were spot on after the Wigan game and your explanation tonight.
no11 Cuddly, Hope you enjoyed the cricket nearly as much as you enjoyed the game tonight.You should not be surprised though,just the same as Perth to the MCG.
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Hopefully all the vile Ward haters will have crawled back under their stones and slimed back to sleep, never to appear again on these boards. I really hope he gets national exposure for the attributes some of us have always seen, unfailing commitment to the club, athleticism and wholehearted effort. Forget ‘Sack Mick’ and do something positive. Get behind the team.
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What a fantastic team performance, but what a ‘save’ from Hennessey and headed clearance from Stearman, to stop Liverpool going 1- 0 up? how would have wolves players reacted if it had gone in? But after that early scare we played very well has a ‘TEAM’ so many good performances. UTW:
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If ever there was proof that Ward is not a defender then this was it, Ebanks and Ward superb and Just about everyone else mind you!
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Fantastic and well deserved by the whole team.
To all those who blame Stephen Ward for every point we drop – just one ounce of humility please, just one! All year listening to how bad we are and we are 2 points behind Villa and only 4 behind the mighty WBA. To all those who appear every time we win and then vanish – please support the team when they need it!
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What an impressive performance. Wolves were superb ..it would be outrageous for a team of this quality to be anywhere but in the Premier League!
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Great performance again, great result. Can’t explain what happened at Mol against Wigan. If we can beat Liverpool at Anfield, I know they played poorly but a’lot of that was down to us, we can get a result anywhere. 1 or 2 good results and some quality signings, they ARE out there to be signed, will make for a great start to the new year. By the way the premiership form table doesn’t make for bad reading. UTW.
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Reina remember this this time last year when you ran the lenght of the pitch to get ward sent off???!!!!!!
Well here is his reply well worth the wait.
Feed the scousers let them know it’s Christmas time!
Utw
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What a great team performance, full of energy, commitment and no little skill. Yes Liverpool were not great tonight but you know what? – they aren’t these days anyway, a mid table team with a couple of great players in Gerard and Torres. If we can sustain this level of performance and work rate we really are capable of climbing the table. The team just need to be more consistent and believe in there own ability and we may stay up yet as the bottom half of the table is SO tight.
Come on me babbies
WTID
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Wolves were the best team from start to finish,but Match of the Day make it look like a smash and grab raid.Don’t upset Hansen and his beloved Liverpool.Hope Morgan enjoyed the win as much as all the Wolve fans.
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i critised mick for the performance against Wigan where we didnt turn up.
But I have to say we did turn up today against a poor liverpool side but what a performance!!!
I think we should enjoy it and the fans who went will never forget this night because it is very special. It reminds me of earlier this year when I went to west ham and saw us win 3-1
But I dont think we should get carried away. We still need an experience central defender and midfielder who can perform consistently well as stearman,elokobi,berra have proved they cant do.
West ham are not great defensively but have a more than decent attack and will cause us a lot more problems that livepool did today.The also easily beat wigan who we couldnt compete with. The west ham will be a lot tougher than todays.
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Crikey, astonishing, baffling, mind blowing and what else can I say, amazing result, we should go to Liverpool region every time away.
I missed an hour out drinking with my work mates ironically one a Liverpool who said we will win, didn’t be believe him one bit. I walk in with 20 minutes we are 1 – 0 up unbelievable, there,s another big word to describe this result, I had right oh rant after Wigan. This does take a lot of pressure from the home form, get one win away and we have a chance of survival.
I must say it would typical wolves to loose to west ham and beat Chelsea, mad season.
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Well done lads a great performance. Consistency is now key – we need performances like this every week now – not like Boxing Day!
Ward deserves some praise too for his well taken goal.
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I have been saying all along we aint going down, the lads are working too hard to let that happen. I know Wigan was bad on Sunday but the lads have come up with the goods tonight and it was well deserved.
I hope this shuts up the so called commentators on sky who thought tonight was going to be a pushover for Liverpool.
Well Done lads you really deserved that win. You never give up, your sheer guts and determination will keep us in the Premiership. Play like you have today on Saturday and you will succeed.
Love everyone of you. I am absolutey thrilled to bits for everyone involved with Wolves.
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Oh how we deserved that win tonight…
One word… Magnificent !
They battled hard and positively right from the back all the way through to the front two who were both contenders for man of the match, was horrified to see Fletcher warming the bench again but i suppose in light of the fact that it was Wardy who scored the winning goal you can’t really knock it. Was pleased to see Zubar come back to form as he was AWOL on Boxing day against Wigan, thought George Elokobi had a good game too, in fact the entire back four deserve HUGE credit tonight as the two central defenders in Stearman and Berra were solid. Very pleased to see every ball being fought for in midfield too, i just get the impression that if Henry had been present then we may well have been lacking in midfield. Good to also see Jarvis starting tonight, i was very disappointed when he started on the bench on Boxing day, i thought it was commom sense to play your best players from the start ! Still not convinced that Mick can do the job we’re hoping for but on the whole at least we can be positive about 3 WELL DESERVED points and probably the joint best performance of the season (the other coming in the win over Manky City)
West Ham on New years day is now a HUGE game, a real six pointer… a crap cliche but true nevertheless in this case. Lets hope we can build on this tremendous win tonight.
Well done boys, you’ve really done us proud tonight. Proud to be a Wolves fan. South Bank STH forever.
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beat the scousers in every dept, kept gerro n torres quiet. think milijas had a wkd game in the middle with his tackling (which he never usually does).
similar set up and performance against the hammers, soon be up the league…
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PROUD!!! Superb show from Mick and the lads. Roll on Saturday!!
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I am still no fan of MM but have to give credit where credit is due and I support my team always – a fantastic TEAM performance to not only win but keep a clean sheet.
The energy on display was outstanding from the whole team. When you keep a great player like Torres quiet to the point you are not sure he is on the field then you know you have played well.
Hopefully, we recover in time for the next match – I don’t know about the players but I am exhausted after that effort!!!
COME ON YOU WOLVES!!!
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Believe! The proverbial “Fat Lady” is still gargling, yes, but Wolves are still the main act! Who says they can’t turn this season around? It will be a miracle, for sure, but today was a mini-one, so another small one at the Boleyn Ground can go a long ways to our eventual salvation. Believe. Say what you want about Mick, stubborn as he is, but he loves an underdog. Might be mad to bet against him and this scrappy tram! Don’t give up! UTW!
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let’s hope this is a positive and a draw at west ham could be the start. let’s reel in the baggies. villa. blues. that’s when the pressure starts?
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Out of the darkness …which reminds me, time for another Guinness
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Wolves were great tonight, did us all proud, fingers crossed there’ll be more of the same against the Bubbles on Saturday. At the very least we are still in the thick of it and can walk tall for the next few days!
Re No 2 and yr Andy Gray comment, rubbish! Andy concentrated on the Wolves positives every time his co-comentator said how poor Liverpool were.
Come on you wolves!
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Over the moon! Fantastic perforamance lads and it just shows that Mick is not done yet.
Boxing day was really a bad day at the office for our boys and this result shows that we are still in there fighting.
We have had too many matches so far this season where we have played well and not got the points and then with the Wigan performance I did start to think that was it for us this season, but we go into the new year still fighting.
A win at West Ham or at least a point is a must of course, espeically when you see our fixture list after that! The first 3 months of next year are going to be tough and then we should have an easier end of season.
As I have said before, Mick did know about the problems we would have at the back this season, especially given his view on our finishing position potential at the start of the season.
Fingers crossed and another 19 performances like this and we will be in happy land come the end of the season.
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Awsome. Simply awsome. Better side from start to finish. PLEASE play like that a bit more often! WWFC ’till I die.
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good win tonight much better performance than that debacle on boxing day
well done wolves and well done MM
still think big sam is the man to take us forward though !!
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WELL DONE BOYS FANTASTIC DIPLAY LETS BUILD ON IT COME ON WOLVES YESSSS
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7 – read your blog today on the Wigan performance and it stuck in my mind – well what a call!!
**** my old boots though, what is more surprising?!
– a 2nd clean sheet of the season?
– more than doubling our away points tally?
– winning at Liverpool?
– Stephen Ward getting the winner?
Who cares – WE ARE WOLVES!!
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I really hope all the muppets who knocked Mick and the boys read these comments tonight. Don’t get me wrong, I know your doing it out of passion, but COME ON, get behind your team! McCarthy is brilliant. The work ethic is demands is refreshing to watch. We have really good players coming back from injury and may even get a couple in January. Well done Super Mick, you and the boys deserve a beer or two tonight! Every single player, played out of their skin tonight. Im proud to be a wolf!!! Well done boys
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Performance and a half!
Well done to all, especially Ward, SEB, Berra and MM.
UTW!
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eat your words, get behind the team we all love wolves and we’l be here long after the M’s have gone. well done lads
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A brillant and fantastic performance by Wolves tonight topped up with a cool finish by Wardy, the same player many critics argue that he is one of MMs favourites. Sure he must be and although not a great quality player he gives his all whether he plays in defence, midfield or up front.
All the boys played their hearts out and in the end made the Liverpool players a laughing stock simply by letting score an ‘equaliser’ that didn’t count as the Wolves players let six of them be in an offside position.
Going around the players they were all Men of the Match and this after the rubbish performance against Wigan only three days earlier.
You were simply brilliant tonight. Give us more like this and we’ll sure stay another season in the Promised Land.
A Happy New Year to all Wolves fans scattered around the globe especially those who are lucky to see the team play week in week out although here in Malta we are lucky to see all Wolves matches LIVE on the box.
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No 3,
Whats so funny about Wards celebration ??
Forgive me for supporting wolves till the day i die, but the last thing i was thinking when stephen ward scored the goal that won us a game at Anfield was how he celebrated !!!
He scored !!! MM picked him, so therefore give the manager credit on this occasion for picking the right team to win a game and getting his tactics SPOT ON…..You as a wolves fan are calling a match winner an IDIOT ?? ERRRRMMMM Has any Wolves player managed a winner at anfield in the last 26 yrs – Think not mr doom gloom.
To all the wolves fans who stick by mick good on ya, Bring on west Ham….
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Watched the game with Liverpool fans and no commentary, watched it at home again with commentary.
Did not see Wigan game just goals.
Have to say this is like Blues game, we beat a very poor team.
That being said, great result and performance.
Anyone agree but David Pleat is best commentator around.
Bottom line is there is no point switching out Mccarthy, we are in this with what we have. A couple of good loan signings in Jan and we could make it.
A win against WBA and things are looking up,
Happy New Year
Charlie
ATLANTA WOLVES
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I didn’t give up on you babbys. Mick is honest, the team is honest, how long have we suffered insincere managers? Yes they maybe aren’t good enough, yes he’s maybe made bad signings, they all
do. All of the time them boys give us everything they’ve got. Support them and let’s get hoping they survive. You do make your own luck in this game but I’m proud to support a team of tryer’s, good enough or not, they are trying for us, how often can we say that over the years. Best wishes to all Wolves fans in 2011, have a good new year all of you!
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One for the Happy Clappers like myself.
Onya Mick and boys, let’s put some distance between the Hammers and ourselves on Saturday & after that Chelsea, who are particularly vulnerable at the moment.
You supporters that have the good fortune to go and watch our wonderful club get to the Molineux and make it as hostile and intimidating as you can for the arrogant millionaires, make yourselves a 12th player on the pitch.
A victory for the ages, away at Anfield!
Go you Good Things.
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Great victory okay it was against a poor Liverpool side but you can only beat what is put in front of you.Every player played their part to perfection not allowing Liverpool time to play their brand of football, tactics for once were spot on and the lads should be congratulated on playing their hearts out for the full 90 odd minutes.Its true what they say that the game is played from above the shoulders given what we dished up on Boxing Day to todays game only highlights this.
If we can keep playing with the same enthusiasm for the remainder of the season then there is no reason why we can’t survive in the Premiership and what a confidence boost going into our next match at Upton Park. C’mon you Wolves.
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Amazing! What a performance, we didn’t let Liverpool play at all. Milijas, Berra, SEB and Wardy were a different class.
Out of darkness cometh light!
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I hope Mick hangs in there, I truly do, just like his “never say never” patch-work squad, statistically the most depleted team in the League. If anyone is going to keep his cool, not let the moaners get his ire up, and protect his players, most supossedly not good enough for this division, if you read most of the dross in these posts, when we lose…it would be him! Maybe being a “thick” plonker, as Mick get labeled, is a good thing, which is enough to ignore so many short-sighted, must have it yesterday, throw the baby out with the bath-water supporters who think it’s a snap managing a Premiership side. Go on Mick, do what you have to do, get those lads bunkered and their backs to the wall; siege mentality will go along ways to surviving, inclding the ridicule of our own saddos, let alone another year in the top-flght! UTW!
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A great result and a vastly improved performance over Boxing Day. The big question that really upsets me is:
Why, oh why, oh why, oh why do Wolves go from the abject to a more convincing performance in only a few days?
It was like watching a different team out there last night – far more urgency and desire.
I’m with some of the other writers regarding the defence, and it needs sorting. In my opinion, Elokobi lacks any skill whatsoever, Stearman is a lightweight, and Berra will concede penalties.
Another plus is that only 4 points separates us from 11th spot.
So, c’mon you Wolves, keep playing with desire, you know it makes sense…
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Like all Wolves fans enjoyed the game from start to finish,Liverpoool were as poor as we were Boxing day.Seb’s through ball precise Ward finishing clinical,3 points were crucial ahead of West-Ham saturday.A must not lose game ahead of a very tough January fixture list.
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Lets not get TOO excited about beating Liverpool.
In the cold light of day they are just 4 points above us in the Premier and if we are to survive me must beat our nearest rivals.
This is not the Liverpool of old, they play without fire and without passion, infact they are in serious decline.
LIVERPOOL HAVE NOW LOST 8 GAMES THIS SEASON
The Liverpool of old never lost that many games in 3 seasons.
THEY ARE IN A RELEGATION SCRAP NOW.
Last nights victory will count for nothing if we lose to West Ham away on Saturday.
From a Wolves point of objective I was well impressed with the majority of performances but the one person who gave me greatest concern was Mr C BERRA, he is such a liability. He nearly gave away a goal early on in the game and how he didn’t conceed 2 penalties for hanging on I will never know.
Right I have had my say after a good nights sleep, now back to my Special K and Yougart.
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After the Wigan game it would have been easy to give the trip to Anfield a miss.
Live on telly, night match, roads a mess and weather not good.
But as a Wolves fan you make a big investment for nights like last night.
As a supporter that grew up in the 70′s Anfield will always be one of Football’s great venues, last night it might as well have been a libary!! – never sung ‘Walk On’ at the end of the game.
The fans have lost heart, they don’t believe in their team anymore.
We Wolves fans are hardened supporters we see the poor performances ‘week in week out’ but just occasionally we see a great performance……
WOLVES WON AT ANFIELD
A young squad being led by an experienced manager – up or down the future is bright.
Special mention for Ward, you can say what you like about his footballing ability, his passion to play football cannot be doubted.
We are a decent Centre Half away from stopping up.
UTW
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A ray of hope. Good performances from the usual suspects Stearman and Ward. Foley outstanding in central midfield. Successful strengthening in January and we should be ok.
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Very happy with the win, but no estatic. Why? Well, after Man City we went further downhill.
It’s fantastic to beat the likes of them and Pool, but what is the use when you can’t beat Wigan and West Ham?
Another reprieve for Mick. Another reason for all the ‘Where are the doubters?’ brigade to say we should stick with him.
I am against changing managers too quickly. We did it too much in the past. However, this was a good solid performance but against a team performing badly and there was a solid element of luck, luck we DIDN’T make.
I truly hope this is the turning point, but if anyone can remember the euphoria of beating Man Utd (Kenny Miller scoring) several seasons ago, it did not make a lot of difference. We still went down.
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At last Stephen Ward is getting some credit and more importantly playing up front, the position he was originally bought for.
How he ever ended up at Left Back I don’t know, but he’s playing in his natural position and playing well
All round superb team performance, and let’s not take anything away from that
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O MIGHTY MICK I SALUTE YOU.
Wardie class taken goal will never question your ability again this season
Wolves were great played real classie football at times.
SKY- hang your head in shame Andy made good football comments rest of tean at sky totaly BIAS.
LIVERPOOL WERE OUTCLASSED– Get that straight-
Its not over till Fat Lady Sings– Crazey Dave-
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Well done boys thought the whole team played well. Hennessey came for balls well. Zubar & Elokobi great getting forward. Berra & Stearman played brilliant. Milijas his touch and vision is a class apart from any other central midfield player we have. Jarvis & Hunt caused chaos down the wings and we’re tireless. SEB was superb only a goal could of topped how he’s been playing. Stephen Ward well well what can you say? I’ll hold my hands up for battering his ability because as a second striker he can do it and do it well that’s his position job done (he can’t go back into defence though he can’t defend) but last night he was awesome as he was against B’ham. STEPHEN WARD hold your head up high you scored the winner at Anfield – if anything i know you’ll be loved by the Man U fans too today!!!
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Current Form – Wolves 3 wins in six matches
Current Form (over last six games) puts us sixth in Prem League behind Man U, Man City, Spurs, Arsenal and Blackpool.
Upward momentum….
UTW
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Great performance. We can’t get carried away though, we need another win soon, ideally at West Ham but if not we need to take that performance as confidence and try to win at least one of the games after that – Chelsea, Man City, Liverpool, Bolton & Man Utd. Glad that Ward took that chance, otherwise we’d all be saying it should have been Fletcher in that position to have that shot, not Ward. Liverpool were dirty, we outplayed them and could have had 2-3 penalties. Well done to Mick and the team!
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So proud of the lads you were great tonight! I agree with no.20 about Stephan Ward I suppose some will still have a go at him, but he never lacks commitment. Mick I still believe.. To go to Liverpool and play like that was fantastic..
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Ken Dodd, the beatles, bill shambled, stan boardman, Barry grant, cilla black, Derek hatton …. Your boys were outclassed and this was not the reserve team that thrashed villa. I have now seen us win twice 1 nil at anfield but this was a brilliant all round display. Must show the same passion against alf garnet’s boys!
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62 – filthy wolf. What a plonker and a plonkerish post.
There’s always one fan who thinks they are showing some wisdom by bringing every one down and saying “well we saw what happened last time we beat a top4 team”.
We go to anfield with a threadbare squad and off the back of a defeat and produce a performance like that and all you can say is we went down when we beat man utd in 2003/04 season – laughable
Having not won away all season – this could not have been a better result to get before we go to west ham. I’ll be there but I’m sure you’ll be at home so you can bitch about the outcome on this post straight after the game.
No team needs doom mongering arm chair pundits like you.
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It should have sad shankly but predictive text but shambles is quite apt for the scousers!
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Nice to see the usual Mick bashers have all gone into hiding tonight! Great to see such commitment and fighting spirit and everyone getting behind the club!! UTW
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English Excile. yeah because Berra is the only defender in the while football league that pulls players shirts. neither was a pen and if you think they were then we should have had about 4, every time Berra was in their box he was not only having his shirt pulled but once he had the shirt pulled off his back and the next time he was being choked. happens in every game in every league.
if anyone worried me it was Elokobi a couple of times his positioning was terrible. cracking result awesome display and im sick of hearing people say how they feel sorry for Hodgson because of the team he inherited, if he doeasnt want the players hes got im sure most the other managers in the prem would love to have them.Thats the way you should play against these teams close them down and dont give them anyspace, how many times did they pass back to Reina.
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seen the game on the box and what a performance by the lads ,this could just turn our season around but lets not forget that liverpool didn’t play a game in 3 weeks and they looked rusty but saying that we need the points and we got them.bring on the hammers!
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Good win for wolves last night, But still think Mick’s not the man for the job, when it seems like its is last game he gets a win, but no dout, we will lose our next 8 games,
But that was the best i have ever seen the wolves play in many years, Andy gray is a idiot, never praises the wolves!!
We just need to get 2 more defenders a mid and forward in Keane, sell flect.
Just keep asking myself why? can we not play like that ever week, Miljas was brill, ebanks great and credit to ward for the finish, because not my biggest fan.
Wolves Forever!
Big Boy Rich
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English Exile
I agree with all your points, this was a poor Liverpool team but after our performance against Wigan, I just couldn’t see us performing like that, the fact that we did, credit should be given to all concerned.
Regarding Berra, if the ref gives 2 pens for them, he would have had to have given us 2 aswell, that business in the penalty area is bizarre to say the least!!!!
Milijas my M.O.T.M.
Great effort, great clean sheet, great result!!!
Just do the same against West Ham.
Well done boys
UTW
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WHO THE £%&* IS ALAN SHEARER
WHEN WEVE GOT STEVIE WARD WARD WARD
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strange how proffesional teams complain they play 2 amny games then they lose one and say it’s because they havn’t played for 18 days,as for number 62 were was our luck ya div no luck involved we deserved our win we were the better team by a street.
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YOU LOT MAKE ME CHUCKLE!!
MICK IS NOW GOD?
I WAS AS GLAD AS ANY SUPPORTER ABOUT LAST NIGHT & IM QUICK ENOUGH TO SLATE THE TEAM & MANAGER WHEN WE ARE BAD SO I WILL CONGRATULATE THEM ON A EXCELLENT AWAY PERFORMANCE LAST NIGHT, EVERYONE DID THERE BIT!!
BUT…
THIS HAS JUST KEPT MM IN A JOB FOR REST OF SEASON & IMO THIS WILL END UP IN RELEGATION.
IF HE HAD HAVE LOST LAST NIGHT & THEN ON SATURDAY HE WOULD HAVE BEEN GONE ME THINKS, SO HE CAN’T BE DOING THAT WELL CAN HE!!
BLIND FAITH SPRINGS TO MIND!!
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Crowfish
No one say’s Mick is God?
Your logic is twisted ‘if’ we had won against Wigan it would have been 3 straight wins??
To support the Wolves requires an element of ‘blind faith’ or we would all support Man Utd?
We may never win the league (but maybe the cup one day?)we travel thousands of miles for nights like last night.
Savour the moment.
UTW
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me thinks why dont your touch you caps lock and talk sense
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It’s simple is’nt it play players in a position they prefer and are used to and look what happens. All it is is 11 fit men v 11 fit men . We out played them in every department. Who would have predicted Stearman would give Torres an awful time… did he have a shot/header on target?? We still need to strenghten in all areas to make us a more consistant side. We have the basics of a decent PL side but we lack leadership. If SM/MM identify certain areas we need to get players in we will climb the league. Spening £10m in January will be money well spent… Hope Mr Morgan enjoyed that result last night..
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Well said Crowfish, McCarthy gets his tactics right for the only time this season and he’s suddenly a genius, Wolves were brilliant last night but one swallow doesn’t make a summer, McCarthy is the man who will take us down, if you happy clappers are okay with that, fine, but don’t tell us we should all be bowing down to and tugging our forelocks to the least successful Premiership manager ever.
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What a 24 hours!!!
Watching England retain the Ashes at the MCG and then a truly great all round performance by me babbies at Anfield.
Oh yeah, today down to the Mornington Peninsula to enjoy the beach.
Fantastic!!!
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Those of you saying Liverpool were no good completely miss the point. We defended from the front and matched them all over the pitch. Nobody got any room to pick a pass and Ward and Ebanks deserve tremendous credit for the defensive work they did. This worked because (surprisingly) Liverpool did not have enough players comfortable on the ball which was worked out by guess who?? Oh yes our tactically inept management team! There is not one poster on here (including me) who would have thought that what we did last night would work, but thats why we are sitting at home typing and Mick and Terry are running the team.
PS Crowfish – your comment is as pathetic as your grammar, are you actually glad we won or not?
PPS Wanderer in Error – come on a bit of praise for Stephen??
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Gary Breen Lives!! Well done Wardy I’ve moaned about some of his games over the season but never about his effort. Keep him in the forward line he gives Ebanks the support he needs.
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Great win for us last night we out played them and we deserved our win, we’re now 4 points behind the steptoes and we shall soon catch them up and overtake them, how do you like them apples steptoes.
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Thanks to injuries things looks better. MM couldnt find the correct team but injuries helped him..
Wolves with Henry and Doyle: 1 win in 11 games
Wolves without Henry and/or Doyle: 4 wins in 8 games.
Wolves with Mancienne in the starting 11: 4 points in 8 games.
Wolves without Mancienne in the starting 11: 14 points in 11 games.
Maybe a clue what to do when Henry, Mancienne and Doyle are fit again.. DONT bring them back in the starting lineup!
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Great win, great performance and MM got the tactics bang on. Now someone tell me why we didn’t turn up on Sunday.
Raising your game at Anfield is one thing, playing against Wigan at home is another.
I’ve constantly stated on this forum, you could never question effort but that alone will not keep us up.
My greatest fear is that we’ll lose the next 5 but MM position will be guaranteed. I’m not a MM hater, far from it. His honesty and no nonsense style is commendable most of the time. It is his selection policy and tactics that I question. Yesterday he got them spot on, well done to all. Now watch this space.
That said, lets make sure we have a full house and get behind the team on Wednesday. In the meantime, a repeat of last year against WHU would make my New Year.
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I reckon all true fans have been sticking with mick, last night was a bit more than an away win it was more of an EARTHQUAKE,
numpties please go away and pretend to support another team STICK WITH MICK come on you wolves forever.Brigtet
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Arsenal field a weakend team (8 Changes) at Wigan – Wigan get a much needed point.
I am looking forward to the FA charging Arsenal with fielding a weakened team making reference to the Wolves ruling last season – no doubt that this was a weakened Arsenal team.
The Premier League is full of S%&t
Clubs like Wolves have to overcome massive hurdles with big club bias from referees etc etc
UTW
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Great goal Stephen,one to remember !
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Last night was a great win. Still we are deep in the mire and need some kind of result Saturday. The teams around you cannot beat you! Well done and I for one will admit I gave you no chance of winning. Then again neither did the bookies……
Win the weekend and the baggies may only be 1 point off us……
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70 – I dont know where you get this ‘thread bare’ squad from. This is Mick’s squad.
Ok, we are missing Doyle and maybe Craddock but that’s about it. There isn’t another player in the squad I would bring back.
Certainly not Henry, who I’ve said for 2 years now is not good enough.
Anyway, Seb was completely awesome my MOTM followed closely by Milijas. I thought Stears played well too for someone who is so inconsistent and error prone, he looked like a rock!!
Maybe we need to get used to one good game, then one bad , one good, one bad… who cares, I just want us to stay up!
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What a result and performace- total respect to the whole team amd MM for getting just about everything right. The determination of these guys has to be admired.
Milijas was superb in the middle of the park.
SEB worked tirelesly
Great finish by Ward
The rest of the team also played very well with a confidence I have not seen for a long time.
BRING ON WEST HAM
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91 Sir Billy – I agree. I think it’s a disgrace to make 8 changes and give Wigan a valuable point. Please can chelsea now follow suit and do the same for us please :)
By the way Andy Gray. On 68 minutes you said ‘the game isn’t lost yet’ didn’t you mean ‘the game isn’t won yet?’ . So much for loyalty eh. Well, the wolves fans hold you in about the same sffection as you hold the club! None whatsoever.
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Could have taken the game to L`pool.
Could have closed them down so they had no time on the ball.
Could have fought like Wolves
Could take a lot of positives from the game.
Could have put more of a shift in.
Could play like this every game
Yes you gave me everything I asked for last time on here, namely.
A CLEEN SHEET AND GOALS.
Thanks lads, proud of you, especially as my son is a l`pool supporter and the rest of my family are all Blues supporters.
Just want to ask Father Christmas for more of the same please.
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bob paisley, bill shankly,ian rush, kenny dalglish,graeme souness,tery mcdermott,phill thompson,steve gerrard, the beatles,the royle family nerys hughes and all those scousers who over the years loved to beat wolves every time, well we gave your boys one hell of a beating.
that finish would have done king jhon richards proud, good performance from the lads in old gold last night, what happened to torres and gerrard?
defence still dodgy, but thankyou mm and wwfc for making my week, and shut all those gloating villa and tesco fans up at work.
oh and heres a tip for jack the hat and len cantellorocket from the darkside sandwell town boys, have a look at 365 stats . and see where wwfc are and where the super boggies are. last 10 games we are 14th and the boaggies are where? bottom lol. proud happyclapper utw
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Congratulations on a great performance last night, this win was thoroughly deserved. The only thing that us Liverpool supporters can take from this game is that it will hopefully shorten the disastrous reign of media and LMA darling Roy Hodgson. Those who wanted Rafa out got their wish, I’m not gonna bet against Wolves finishing above us this season if Hodgson stays. You lot were organized, full of heart and fought to the last minute. A thoroughly deserved win! Enjoy.
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Great Performance all round – SEB was AWESOME If we could play like that for the rest of the season I would be confident we can stay up
Ward deserves the goal and the praise – A striker he is – A Prem left back he aint
The TEAM fought hard and deserved the win!
Hope we can keep the momemtum going till the end of the season
Happy New Year to ALL football fans
Up the Wolves!
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Couldn’t go due to asthma attack yesterday so still never seen Wolves win at Anfield :(
Really pleased with the win, particularly as Sky were so ‘It’s been 27 years since Wolves won here’ Sky also went on about Wolves having the worst defence in all four leagues and only gaining one point on the road all season.
If Liverpool saw this on the tv in the dressing room, they would simply believe they only had to turn up to win.
Pleased for Steven Ward..he is no LB but he is a Cf which is ahem the position he was signed for.
But lets not get carried away, this is only one game. our position does not belie the truth that we are a very poor team and facing probable relegation with MM in charge.
I would still like to see a more successful manager brought in to spend for January- preferably Martin O’Neil or failing that boyhood Wolves fan Big Sam.
Roll on the Hammers on New Years Day and a Happy new Year to all Wolves fans, peace and good health to you all.
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80—- how is my logic twisted? imo if we had lost at pool and west ham MM would have had the chop! its not logic, its an opinion! if we had beat wigan i still wouldnt have felt any different towards MM as i have also travelled thousands of miles watching his complete drivel! so 1 result does not make me change my opinion of him! another word for you to look up! “fickle”
& Most posts today are brown nosing MM im just stating that this win does not make him a better manager! when its in black & white! he’s the prems worst ever!!! to a certain extent i agree we all need a little blind faith to follow wolves but to think this man can get us out of this mess is waaaaaaaay deeper than blind faith!
after all, having spent the money we have should we not be a better side?
NOT WORSE!
81—- oh dear, i just love it when someone tries to make a point and then there half brain decides to throw a wobbly & results in a sentance that makes no sense what so ever! “me thinks why dont your touch you caps lock and talk sense” a great phrase! one of my favourites! try stating your opinion instead of slating others then running off!
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What a terrific performance by all the team last night, well done Mick you showed great tactical awareness in outplaying a Liverpool team who were forced back for most of the game, they had no answer to the commitment of our boys. It was a pleasure to watch and even the most neutral of fans would agree that we deserved every single point. Mick proved again that he is the man for the job so come on you doubters keep the faith and get behind the entire team, WE CAN STAY UP!
ps Wonder if the Greek has a dry cleaners cos he was trying to get the shirt off Berra all night!
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I got to admit I have knocked MM, TC & co in the past.I’ll also admit I’ve knocked Wardy.
Got to admit I really enjoyed chocking on humble pie.
He used to be s****
But now he’s alright
Walking in a Wardy wonderland!
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Could the fact that Andy Gray doesn’t appear to have any affection for Wolves be that we all used to sing “Hark now hear the south bank sing a new kings born today.. His name is Stevie Ward and he better than ANDY GRAY!!”… Init Simples!
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who’d be a wolves fan eh!!.
dire against wigan and awesome against liverpool.
well done lads brilliant performance allround.
this 3 pts keeps us within touching distance of safety there will be several clubs in and around the relegation battle and the west ham game could make all the difference either way
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I reckon Dr Who must be an Old Gold fan… escaped the Xmas special & used his time machine to squeeze some 50′s magic into 2010. Beating Liverpool used to be par for the course you know!
Bring on the Claret & Blue Daleks…
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Congratulations, the acolades are deserved but that match has finished and the next one is on the horizon .
The team played as though it was a training session, happy and relaxed and there were no fears which gave the impression that Liverpool had failed to turn up.
Blake’s running across the line and making gaps for others in the Liverpool defence showed that he can play a bit. I have knocked Foley on his lack of agility but with Milijas’s class play he played the ball so as Foley did not have to turn ; well done Mili, you were my man of the match and well played Foley, you looked a class act
Well done to all but why does Berra have to wrestle with the opposition? Why does Mc Carthy allow him to play in this way. It is not clever and he is not payed to do that. It wil back fire on him and more so on his team mates when he gets sent off. So please , lay soccer and nor rugby.
You have shown that despite M.M your can play, so let us all see you keep this game going and give the supportors what they pay for.
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You lot make me laugh. St Winifreds school choir could have beaten Liverpool last night. Yes we played well, but that automatically wipes out all the dire performances that preceded it? The strange line ups, the bizarre substitutions, the playing players out of position, picking his favourites, wasting money in the transfer market? That all goes out the window because we beat a Liverpool side that look on the verge of mutiny? There is only one thing more sure than a happy clapper knees up on the E&S boards after last nights result and that is that we will be playing Championship football next season while ‘super Mick’ remains manager. You’ll see I’m right.
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Just go MIck and take clipboard with you
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109 I have said several times and still maintain that with MM & Co Wolves will be in a constant season after season of relegation battles or even a yo yo club at best
Imv we need a manager and coaching staff that will help the playing side improve with Prem quality to stabilise the young and hungry
I believe that the likes of Mark Davies would have stayed under a different manager but that is my opinion
Imv I also believe that Wolves need a CEO that can attract more investment and better sponsors than Job Done Jez not to mention Prem quality players to the side that are better than what we already have!
Happy New Year to ALL
Up the Wolves!
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notts wolves your right one win over liverpool does’nt wipe away all the previous poor performances, but what it does do is keep wwfc within touching distance of safety, and brings fresh hope for the hammers game. oh one other fact is that the same liverpool destroyed chelsea recently. utw
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90,Briget&Tony I reckon all true fans have been sticking with mick,So ALL TRUE FANS are happy to be bottom or second bottom.All true fans love seeing 2 or more goals being put past us constantly.All true fans love seeing dire performances as a NORM rather than the exception.All true fans love seeing players being asked to play anywhere other than where they should be.All true fans prefer to see a £100,000 pound 1 goal in 4 seasons striker in front of a £7 million 5 goals this season(as a sub)Striker Mind u Fletcher has’nt been a left back yet.
True fans your aving a laugh.
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Disasterous result as it means a stay of execution for Mad Mick and Terry who
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Are you a premiership manager or just a wannabe, Keep your comments to yourself, i suppose if you had any say in running Wolves we would be in top 6 by May, STICK WITH MICK forget the Bhatti brothers buckets and don’t be a dinosaur or are you an ‘handsworth stripey’ STICK WITH MICK also this 12 bottom team battle is more interesting than reading drivel from old gold haters.Brigtet
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Can’t understand why the Wolves fans are so excited about this. They need to get a grip on the reality of the situation they are in.
Wolves are still going to be relegated as they are a very poor team who play poor football and don’t deserve a place in the Premier League.
What all of these misguided Wolves fans seem to be missing is that they only won because Liverpool were REALLY POOR.
I am sure Wolves could have beaten most Sunday League sides and “looked good”. It does not mean they ARE any good. Liverpool were simply VERY VERY poor. It is is simple as that.
Wolves will be lucky to pick up another point in the rest of the season.
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superb win at anfield, well done mick and the lads. I dont care if liverpool were bad this is still a great result. On another point i hope the F A have a word with wenger about all his changes at wigan, did,nt he say we gave man utd an advantage when mick made those changes last season, that point could be crutial to wigan this season, knowing the F A though nothing will be said.
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unfortunately 116 is correct, and when i look at the fixtures coming up. oh dear oh dear.
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Yes, yes, all congratulations in order but we are not out of the woods by any stretch of the imagination. Just as has been said already a stay of execution. Time to make a concerted effort to have the main Numpty removed. Get a real manager in and we may still have a chance but after another abysmal defeat to the bottom club, our chances become slimmer and slimmer. Happy New Year
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