Written by kirsikka

After a heroic last-second win against Liverpool, the current league champions and having finally come through our two-month horror list of fixtures in surprisingly good form, next up was bottom-of-the-table Wolves. Less a banana skin and more a full-on banana tree blocking the way. We could all see it coming, and there was every chance we were going to smack into it.

No returning players from injury meant no changes to the starters. Rayan was added to the bench. 19 years old and having just left a city that famously suffers from areas of deep poverty, his first trip in England took him to Wolverhampton…Let’s not lose sight of reality, though. We were still starting with a striker as a 10 and a fullback on the wing, and without the resources to swap them out that our...