It’s been a long Christmas-New Year combo this year, and, frankly, I’ve been busy. Too much eating, drinking and sleeping and tv footie to fit in any serious blogging.

So, besides you, my beloved fans, what have I missed? Wolves festive record is as follows:

Wolves 2-0 Burnley
Liverpool 2-0 Wolves
Wolves 0-3 Manchester City
Tranmere 0-1 Wolves (FAC)

This leaves them nestling not unhappily, but a little unsecurely, in 15th – 1 point above the drop zone. The Burnley game was a good result, and let’s not get involved in any nonsense about whether it vindicated McCarthy’s team selection for Man U or not – it was a good result for the fixture.

Wolves performance in the next two was fair, but it would have been nice to have seen a point or two. Wolves looked capable of comfortably achieving a draw against Liverpool were it not for stephen Ward’s avoidable sending off, but it was not to be.

It’s also good to see progress made in the Cup, even with an uninspiring performanace against Tranmere. The result was what was required and Palace await in the next round…