On this day: Wolves score first in 11 at home
The Wolves faithful may think they have it bad now - but it was nothing like what the home fans were experiencing before they came into play on this day in 1985.
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Wolves, on their way to Second Division relegation in bottom place, had gone a whopping 10 league games without registering a goal on their own turf, writes Craig Birch.
The depressing sequence began on 1 December 1984, a 1-0 defeat to Brighton. A 3-0 drubbing at the hands of Blackburn and a 2-0 loss to Leeds came before the year was out.
They saw in 1985 with a 2-0 disappointment at home to Carlisle, with a goalless draw at home to Middlesbrough at least yielding a point, unlike the one-goal game with Barnsley.
Another stalemate came with the visit of Portsmouth on March 2, before a 1-0 loss to Grimsby three days later. They were downed 3-0 by Oldham, too, before the month was out.
Shrewsbury Town came away with all three points after a 1-0 victory on April 6, with the situation growing increasing desperate when Oxford United came to town seven days later.
It was there 'Wolves, punch drunk and tottering after six months of ceaseless punishment, found the stamina and willpower to fight it out to the finish,' according to reporter David Harrison.
That might turned out to be a false dawn, but the 10,647 that attended at an increasingly-crumbling Molineux did see Wolves register, either side of two goals from the away side in a 2-1 reverse.
Wolves and future England goalkeeper Tim Flowers took the blame for both, starting when he was badly caught out-of-position from 45 yards by Bobby McDonald's hammer of a free-kick.
It crashed off the under-side of the crossbar, with Gary Briggs beating Flowers to barge the ball over the line. But, cometh the hour, Campbell Chapman arrived to level the scores.
Full-back John Humphrey whipped in a cross that Chapman poised himself to meet and he volleyed past Steve Hardwick in the away goal. There would be a twist in the tale, though.
With seven minutes to go, Flowers failed to clear his lines again as Jeremy Charles put the ball into the centre and Kevin Brock managed to slide home the winner. It was harsh on Wolves.
Oxford manager Jim Smith said afterwards: "We would have been happy to settle for a draw, at that stage. It didn't surprise me that Wolves displayed so much fight.
"We have played all the teams down at the bottom, just recently, and Wolves are certainly not the worst." As it transpired, even 'the Bald Eagle' himself would be proved wrong.
Wolves went down at the foot of the standings, two points off second-bottom Cardiff City and seven adrift of safety. They would be relegated the following year, too.
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