Kevin Doyle's warning in famous win

Kevin Doyle has warned Wolves they risk wrecking their survival bid by getting carried away with their magical win against Manchester United.

The £6.5million striker celebrated a memorable weekend after his winner against the Premier League leaders was followed by a Republic of Ireland double - named his country's Player of the Year and winning their best international goal award for his classy strike in a 3-1 Euro qualifier win against Andorra last September.

But the 27-year-old insists the shock 2-1 win over United will mean little if Wolves don't follow it up.

He said: "It's nice to win but we're in the bottom three and there's no point in us getting carried away.

"We've beaten Chelsea this season and you think 'oh great' and then we lose the following week, so unless we can get a run going there's no point getting carried away with this win."

United were Wolves' latest scalp after they beat champions Chelsea, Manchester City and Liverpool, while they have lost six out of seven against the teams around them.

Doyle admitted he has no idea why Mick McCarthy's side are so inconsistent.

He said: "It doesn't make sense and I can't explain it. Beating Manchester United won't make or break our season - it wasn't the be-all and end-all.

"It's beating the Wigans and the West Hams and the teams all around us that will make the big difference.

"It means more to beat the teams around us, because beating them denies them points and we're going to have to start doing that sooner rather than later. Hopefully we'll start doing that soon.

"I'd prefer to be doing it to the teams around us rather than having to pull out all the stops to beat Manchester United, Chelsea, Manchester City and Liverpool like we've done this season.

"It's been a strange season for us. When we do lose to lesser teams, the goals we give away are usually individual mistakes, or a lapse in concentration as it was at Bolton last week.

"Against Manchester United, everyone was switched on and that didn't happen."