Black and Gold- Wolves Etcetera

My gosh that was a long ol’ week. The Spurs have been in Dubai, playground of the rich and ‘The Only Way Is Essex’ try-hards (the new Malaga), and for those of you following him, Jermaine Jenas has been treating us to pictures of himself on camels and playing floodlight golf. Like I say, it’s been a long week.

Harry saw a camera and began batting eyelids at the Dubaian (made up word) media, saying he was offered a job there in the summer, which was apparently given serious consideration. Oh Harry, you big flirt you. Other excitement came from hearing that Chigwell’s own Casanova, Jermain Defoe had his ankle blapsed in a training session, only for the rumour to be instantly wafted away like some buzzing news ladybird, to the disappointment of several. Never mind, there’s always a chance he’ll fall over outside Faces tonight.

Wolverhampton. The scene of the heinous crime of being desperately rubbish during our tough run in last year, causing Harry to declare it the worst performance of his reign to date, and the fans to announce, not for the first time, that we’d officially blown our chance of 4^th place. Coming off the back of a disappointing result at Blackpool, where several fans made the same declaration, a similar performance for this years visit to the Black Country (not racist, that’s what they call it… and I don’t mean ‘they’ as in… oh forget it) may well have the masses in meltdown and begin to add credence to the assertion that we’re not quite ready to regain 4^th. Worryingly, the players are already passing comment on the visit of AC Milan next Wednesday, while the fans furrow brows and feverishly roll their hands, mumbling that the Wolves are ready to attack first, sentiments which this blogger echo’s. Let’s not get ahead of ourselves chaps. I’m looking forward to AC as well, but the less glamorous and equally (more?) important task of Wolves on Sunday has to be negotiated, and none of this resting players rubbish, we need our best possible team out and let Wednesdays line-up take care of itself. That being said, Harry is all about the CV, so expect to see a workmanlike midfield, plus Krankie, with Pav and Defoe up top while Peter’s saved for midweek. Not a clue on the defence. I’m going Benny at LB but other than that, I’ve lost track of who’s hot and who’s not.

The Old Gold (definitely not orange) men have something equating to form when playing the likes of us at home, dispatching chelski, manure and Liverpool with aplomb, and the Jamie O’Hara-inspired troops managed to do what we didn’t last week by putting away their chances against Blackpool for a routine victory. James is of course unable to play as part of our loan agreement, so let’s hope they lose a bit of cohesion without the new Steven Gerrard. Not my words, the words of some dilbert at the guardian who blew his load over his performance last week.

Predictions? I’m sure we’ll hear a raft of quotes in the lead up to the game about how we now need to focus on Wolves and ignore Milan. We’ll do the exact opposite of course and conspire to be cringey. Let’s hope the luck that abandoned us at Blackpool returns by the bucket load for a 1-2 win.