Wolverhampton Wanderers boss Mick McCarthy was not about to bemoan his side’s recent bad luck which has led to five straight EPL defeats and sees them second-from-bottom, ahead of West Ham on goal difference.

But he might be in line for a “quote-of-the-season” award or two. He told television interviewers after their heart-breaking 2-1 loss at Manchester United that “all that heroic failure nonsense doesn’t interest me. We got zip, diddly, zero, zilch.”

And they got zip and diddly of a 2-0 home loss to Arsenal and a 3-2 home defeat to one of the season’s surprise packages, Bolton Wanderers.

 

Against the Gunners, they conceded in the first and last minutes, and were 3-0 down against Bolton before eventually losing only 3-2.

However, Wolves’ last five matches, in the last 22 days, have been against the top five teams in the current EPL table. And a less fraught-looking run of fixtures starts with this Saturday’s trip to the other surprise package of the EPL season, Blackpool.

Both sides have conceded plenty of goals this season, while sometimes struggling at the other end and McCarthy this week told the Wolves club web-site that the game would “be 8-8 or a goalless draw.”

Wolves midfielder Karl Henry has re-ignited the debate over Wolves being a “dirty” side, a debate which seemed to have calmed after the team’s recent performances.

He told BBC Radio 5 that Wolves did not deserve to be “called a dirty club and a disgrace to the Premier League.”