Steve Morgan - the devil? Let's have some perspective

Mistakes, sure he's made a few, but some would have you believe that our chairman is the devil incarnate, writes Wolves blogger Tim Spiers.

After Wolves had lost a football match on Saturday Steve Morgan was clearly to blame in the eyes of a few hundred supporters (I use that term lightly), who used a protest to demand his head on a stick, as well as Jez Moxey's for good measure.

It was a scene unimaginable just a few months ago, but it shows how low Morgan's stock has suddenly plummeted.

It's with good reason that Morgan isn't flavour of the month at the moment and he is certainly deserving of criticism for what's unfolded in recent weeks.

He shouldn't have made that blustering dressing room speech after the Liverpool defeat, then he showed Mick McCarthy too much or not enough loyalty when deciding to sack him in February, depending on your viewpoint.

And he made a complete pig's ear of running the search for McCarthy's replacement, asking every man, his dog, his budgerigar and the milkman if he wanted the job, before settling on a managerial novice in Terry Connor, precisely the thing Morgan's wingman Moxey said the club would avoid doing.

But that's where the charge sheet ends.

It's a sheet that doesn't include a lack of huge personal investment into the club, or the city as a whole, or a lack of vision, hard work, care, forward planning and diligence as he tries to establish a relatively small club by modern day standards in one of the world's toughest and most competitive leagues, while rebuilding the stadium and training facilities.

A club which had spent 24 years out of 25 outside the top flight, before promotion on Morgan's watch in 2009.

So can we all just have a bit of perspective please, instead of comparing him to the Bhatti brothers?

If you're of the opinion that the two are the slightest bit similar, then frankly you don't know what you're talking about.

I'd almost say you're not worth listening to but apparently we live in a society of free speech and human rights.

But seriously, you're not worth listening to.

As well as, I suspect, many of those people protesting, I may not have been around to endure those godforsaken days in the 1980s when the club was very nearly made extinct, but you don't have to have lived through it to know what happened, and know that we never want to go back there again.

I wasn't residing in Berlin in 1939 either but I can say with some confidence that Hitler was a bit of a bad apple.

But this is typical of the act-first-never-think-later behaviour of the more moronic element of our support and frankly it says more about the people protesting than the guys they are protesting to get rid of.

Morgan won't say it, the club won't say it, but I'm happy to – you're bringing shame on Wolverhampton Wanderers and I'm mortified that people up and down the country will now tar Wolves fans with the same idiotic brush.

The Scouse Mafia Out banner – a cheap, narrow-minded and illogical rip off of Newcastle's Cockney Mafia Out sign a few years back, is a case in point.

For a start it requires more than one person to comprise an entire mafia, so unless you're suggesting that Danielle Lloyd is Consigliere of the Morgan crew, with Adam Hammill as underboss, then your point, like your right to call yourself a supporter, is completely invalid.

And please, someone tell me, what is the issue with Moxey, the man for whom the most hate-fuelled bile is reserved? Tell me one thing he's done that makes him ripe for a public flogging?

Moxey may be relentlessly bullish and more cliché-ridden than a particularly vomit-inducing X Factor montage, but as a chief executive (and a negotiator in transfer deals) he's done far more good for Wolves than bad.

I see people using Stoke's recent success as an example of his ineptitude, despite the fact he left there in 1997.

Well, if we're going to use that kind of logic, his other former club Rangers are doing great aren't they?

And I suppose the justification for Barcelona's greatness can be traced precisely back to the moment Diego Maradona left in 1984, the incompetent swine.

I guess I'm preaching to the unconvertible here but if you just take a step back and look at the bigger picture, the business side of the club is actually being run very sensibly and with long term gain in mind.

It wasn't so long ago that a respected economics expert was asking whether we were the best run club in the country, for Morgan and Moxey are desperately trying to position the club for long term growth on and off the field.

The problem comes when on-the-field performances mask the progress that is being made.

But although relegation would be extremely painful, it has been planned for and certainly wouldn't be a disaster, as we would be well placed to come straight back up again.

The club is debt free and we wouldn't need to sell valuable assets - it just might mean taking a step back, before hopefully taking two forward, which by the way our near neighbours have managed without the need for moronic protests.

We're talking about a 10 or 15 year project here, not a five year play toy for Morgan to chuck some money at before jumping ship, and the line of progress doesn't necessarily follow a perfectly upward trajectory.

The way football is run is about to undergo huge changes with the introduction of financial fair play rules and Morgan, as a successful businessman, recognises that with some sane planning we could reap the rewards when clubs who have spent way above their means go belly up.

Ask fans of Boston United, Leeds United, Luton Town, Bournemouth, Rotherham, Darlington, Southampton, Stockport County, Crystal Palace, Portsmouth, Plymouth Argyle or Port Vale – all of whom have fallen into administration in the time Morgan has been at Molineux – whether our club is financially being run in the correct way.

So yes, he may have been indecisive and naive with a few of his football-based decisions lately, for which he has been rightly condemned, but for his business logic there is no one I'd rather have running the football club, so let's just put things in context.

Morgan, Moxey, Mick McCarthy, Roger Johnson and some underperforming players have all been guilty of attracting negative headlines in recent weeks.

But if you made a pathetic banner saying Scouse Mafia Out, chanted for Morgan and Moxey to leave, or accosted and harassed Jamie O'Hara and his family, you more than anyone else are the ones making us look like a joke of a club.