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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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