Joe Hart: I could have signed for Wolves

The current Torino shot-stopper began his career with Shrewsbury Town aged just 17.

But three years earlier, in 2001, he had spent three months on trial at Molineux when Dave Jones was in charge.

Hart was speaking to ex-Wolves keeper Matt Murray during a Sky Sports documentary, Joe Hart: The Italian Job.

Murray travelled to Turin to see the 29-year-old, who told him how he first abandoned the idea of going into professional football when leaving Shrewsbury as a youngster.

"When I was 10 or 11 I was playing for Shrewsbury, but had a bit of a meltdown for one of the games, I said 'dad I don't want to do this'.

"It was dead regimented, I wasn't about to play with my friends in Sunday League, you couldn't do this or that.

"I went and told the coach it wasn't for me. Dave Timmins the goalkeeping coach, Mr Shrewsbury, said if I ever wanted to come back it was open for me.

"I played in goal for my county and went on trial at Wolves. I got strung along and did a 13-week trial.

"That got binned and then at about 14 I was playing Sunday League, we had to line the pitch up and walk across it to check for glass and dog mess, stuff like that, it was a bad day and my dad said listen I love you but I can't watch this any more.

"I said shall we try the Shrewsbury thing? I got involved and Dave really pushed me. At 14 I was training with the first team in the Easter holidays."

Meanwhile, Wolves boss Paul Lambert believes there's big potential in the front four that impressed away at Nottingham Forest last weekend.

Lambert used Nouha Dicko, Bright Enobakhare, Helder Costa and Ivan Cavaleiro in tandem and the quartet looked dangerous.

The head coach said: "You've got to have flair in your team going forward. Those four were excellent and there's big potential between the four of them.

"One's only a kid, two are new to the league and have done well and Dicko is a really good player. He's dangerous and I don't think defences like playing against him.

"Against Forest every time they got the ball you could sense something was going to happen.

"That's important, that we have players in our side that can make things happen."

Lambert utilised a 4-2-3-1 formation at the City Ground, pairing Jack Price with David Edwards in midfield and switching from the 4-3-3 system he had used in Wolves' previous three matches.

He suggested he could change things around game by game depending on the opposition.

"There are certain games, such as Cardiff when it's blood and thunder or QPR where it's really tight," he added. "I felt against Forest that system was the right one to do. I like to be flexible. If you're only rigid to one system it can undo you."

n Watch Joe Hart: the Italian Job on demand on Sky Sports.