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Wolves fail to turn up

This space is normally reserved for a reflection on the latest performance in the long history of Wolverhampton Wanderers FC, writes Martin Swain. Cardiff City 2 Wolves 0 This space is normally reserved for a reflection on the latest performance in the long history of Wolverhampton Wanderers FC, writes Martin Swain. But as they didn't turn up on Saturday, that it is going to prove a little difficult. Well, when I say they didn't turn up, there were 11 players clad in that famous old shirt at Ninian Park, fulfilling the fixture and taking up positions on the pitch designed to contest a fifth round FA Cup tie against Cardiff City. But surely that wasn't Wolves, was it? It certainly wasn't the team we saw blazing a trail through the Championship this time last year and it certainly wasn't a team which its manager Mick McCarthy always promises, as a first and essential requirement, will go out with fire in the belly and steel in the mind. Indeed, after their tame and limp 2-0 exit from a competition blasted wide apart by so many Premiership departures, it took the players' warm-down to finally get temperatures rising in the Wolves camp. Read the full report in the Express & Star.

Wolves|Feb 18, 2008
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