Martin Swain news, page 2


Swain’s take on Martinez’s Villa snub

If there was any doubt about the scale and pace of Aston Villa’s alarming decline, it has been banished by Roberto Martinez’s rejection.


Part two of Swain meets McCarthy

And now for something completely different? Or will it be more of the same?


Martin Swain meets Mick McCarthy

It’s the nature of the beast we call football that one day Mick McCarthy and Wolves will part company.


Martin Swain on Stoke 3 Wolves 0

Wolves captain Karl Henry was right – if not quite how he imagined he would be.


Alan Wiley on the tough run for refs

If it’s been a bad couple of weeks for the nation’s small and hard-pressed band of referees, then they fully expect it to get worse.


Premier League drop fight is best yet

It’s not only the most congested scramble for survival to visit the Premier League in its 20-year history but also surely the most unpredictable.


It’s all in the mind of Roy Hodgson

Roy Hodgson took Fulham from the Premier League scrapheap to a Europa League final by what was termed “positive brainwashing.”


Martin Swain on Albion’s new boss

Roy Hodgson’s appointment will be viewed as a safe pair of hands arriving to take hold of the tiller even if the timing of the announcement remains a little curious.


Martin Swain on Wolves’ wonder run

Three days on and time for a question nagging beneath the euphoria of Molineux on Saturday evening.


Martin Swain on Wolves’ cup rout

Fresh from their visit to Coronation Street, Wolves scripted a suitably happy return to the Rovers against Doncaster at Molineux.

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