Football Season Guide

Wolverhampton just about managed to survive last season despite doing their best to blow it all away on the last day of the season and Mick McCarthy will be be determined not to let another traumatic campaign of that sort in the upcoming season. Wolves should not have been in the dire predicament they were given their top displays against the very best sides and he will be aiming his efforts in the summer in making his team play in the same away against the lesser guns. It has been a relative serene summer in the Black Country but both Rogers Johnson and Dorus De Vries are shrewd signings. Making Jamie O'Hara's move from Tottenham permanent was a vital move too that will ensure that Wolves possess the necessary drive in midfield that has been provided by him on many occasions in the latter part of last season. Matthew Jarvis and Kevin Doyle are staying on for the time being and anyway the team is under no pressure to sell. The main area for improvement is the defence after en some really silly goals were conceded over the course of the last year and the presence of Johnson, coming back from two great campaigns in partnership with Scott Dann, should go a long way into shoring things up. Michael Kightly is finall over his injury nightmare and ready to make his mark in the league two years overdue. He has the potential to be a regular but the same applies to Stephen Hunt too, the wily winger who missed too much of last season but came up with key goals when involved. Wolves in general looked well placed to stay up, but they did so last year too and then nearly went down. One never knows with this volatile team that can be inspiring and then diabolical in a flash of a second but the logic spekas that they are way too goo to be embroiled in another relegation fight.