Wolves thread 2019/20

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As wolves fans we never take anything for granted in the way that Liverpool man Utd and Arsenal do. For us bad times is been in the 4th division training on a car park, having a portacabin on the same car park that was ticket office and club shop, not to mention crumbling stands and danger of folding as a club. For those clubs dropping out of the top 4 is bad times they think they're entitled to always be at the top and backed with that view by the media on the whole.
 
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As wolves fans we never take anything for granted in the way that Liverpool man Utd and Arsenal do. For us bad times is been in the 4th division training on a car park, having a portacabin on the same car park that was ticket office and club shop, not to mention crumbling stands and danger of folding as a club. For those clubs dropping out of the top 4 is bad times they think they're entitled to always be at the top and backed with that view by the media on the whole.
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Its what REAL support is about mate. Our City friends here have been in a similar boat too, you have to know the bad to appreciate the good I think. I remember listening to a Southern based Rag on Talksport last year as I travelled back from a Wolves game and he was bemoaning their 'terrible' luck and he asked the question: "how much more must we suffer" I was so angry when you consider at the time, clubs close to United like Bury and Bolton were in the process of going out of business, they haven't got a bloody clue. I have ZERO respect for plastic fans, annoy the hell out of me!
 
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...or Bert Williams, Jesse Pye, Sammy Smyth, Stan Cullis, Dennis Westcott (a fine striker who scored 4 in an FA Cup semi-final at OT and came to City in 1950), Johnny Hancocks with his size 4 boots, Jimmy Mullen, I could go on......
 
Being born in 1971 I missed all that, my first game was 1979 when we had the likes of Andy Gray, John Richards, Kenny Hibbitt, George Berry, Willie Carr, Derek Parkin but then into the 1980s a real decline with the elusive Bhatti brothers owning the club but they were in it for property development not football and we almost went out of business and plummeted to Division 4 after selling Wayne Clarke to Birmingham as we needed the money.

At the start of the 1986 season we appointed 33 year old rookie Brian Little as boss but he didn't last long before being replaced by former Shrewsbury and Villa boss Graham Turner (lifelong Wolves fan) who then signed a 21 year old rough diamond from West Brom - Steve Bull, that was THE turning point!

We missed out in the first ever play off semis (losing to Aldershot) but then the following season with Bully notching 50 odd goals we won Division 4 and were promoted to Division 3. We won that too, Bully scored another 50 odd goals and got into the England team. We also won the Sherpa Van Trophy, beating Burnley.

We spent all of the 1990s in the second tier, big spending under exiled Wolves fan Sir Jack Hayward who rebuilt the stadium and promising much but achieving little on the field. Graham Turner was replaced by Graham Taylor in 1994, after a couple of years he was replaced by Mark McGhee then Colin Lee and into the 2000s we came, appointing Dave Jones who got us promoted via the play off final in Cardiff 2003 and Wolves were back in the big time - but just for a season, we were whipping boys making up the numbers and promptly returned to the 2nd tier.

Glenn Hoddle replaced DJ but then after leading us to copious 1-1 draws quit by text on the day that England were playing Portugal (how apt!) at WC 2006. Our squad by then was threadbare and in came Mick McCarthy who got us into the play offs against all odds where we lost to rivals West Brom before storming to the title the following season, 2008-09.

Mick gave us 3 seasons in the Prem before being sacked and replaced by his assistant Terry Connor who took us down to the Championship. Norwegian Stale Solbakken came in but only lasted until January when he was sacked after an FA Cup defeat to Luton and replaced by Dean Saunders. DEAN SAUNDERS!! What a joke he was! Took us down to League 2 which was unthinkable.

Luckily Kenny Jackett came in and brought us back up as champions the following season and then followed a couple of years of mid table mediocrity where owner Steve Morgan put us up for sale and the loathsome Jez Moxey had full rein of the club.

Then in the summer of 2016 we heard rumours of Jackett being replaced by Spaniard Julen Lopategui when the new Chinese owners took over - this was the first any of us knew of any Chinese interest! These rumours went on for weeks with no confirmation or denial from Wolves, nothing was said whatsoever but there seemed too much info for it to be made up. We finally had confirmation that Morgan had sold the club to Chinese conglomerate Fosun and about half an hour later, Lopetegui took the Spain job!

We ended up with Italy legend Walter Zenga as manager, mad as a box of frogs, charismatic, the antithesis of Kenny Jackett with his ripped jeans, bangles and tattoos and getting banned from a local pub for brawling with the bouncers who wouldn't let him in wearing Wolves trackie and trainers. In October he was fired and replaced with the dull and dour Scot Paul Lambert until the end of the season. Then along came Nuno Espirito Santo, the rest as they say...

Anyway, I'm on a Manchester City forum so I doubt many of you have lasted to the end of this long, drawn out post!
 
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