3 Games to go, 1 Win Needed.........Surely
Mick McCarthy
By Simon Garner
April 14 2009
Well here we are, the season is almost at an end and as the title says 3 games to go, 1 win is needed to clinch promotion. Surely, surely we are there?
I honestly cannot contain my excitement, sitting in the pub with a few friends on Monday having a meal and I saw on the TV that the score was now 3-2 to Wolves against Derby. Well lets just say my pint covered my plate but boy it was worth it. I have never known a season like it. Every game has not been without its ups and downs, the performance against Birmingham last week had all the signs of the team bottling it, but it seems to have had the complete opposite effect. The team were terrific in the first half against Southampton and the desire was there (if not the performance) against Derby to grab the win. Our result coupled with draws for Birmingham, Sheffield United and Reading has now put us within 1 win of the Premiership.
I said at the start of the season that I thought that this would be our season but in reality did I believe it? Was it just another showing of blind faith that I and many fans have every season? Well ultimately it seems that it wasn't, yes OK we are not actually promoted yet, but I can hear the fans chanting their hearts out from the stands, see the players celebrating with one another on the pitch and dare I say it, on the podium against Doncaster Rovers on the last day of the season, with the league trophy lifted high into the air? One thing that has got my back up is the Birmingham City fans saying we will be the worst team to ever get promoted into the Premiership..........if that is the case and they do come 2nd (which personally I don't think they will) and get promotion (which again I don't think they will) how carp are they then? If we do go up as champions then how rubbish must they be. Anyone notice how quiet they have gone since they beat us last week and as the old song goes "I'd rather be a dingle than a ............"
I will still stand by my view that I do not care where we in the league as long as we get to where we want to be, but even now I have the taste, the urge if you will that I want that title, and what a better team to take it off than West Brom. God that would be some feeling, don't you agree. I would just like to take a brief second to congratulate Andy Keogh on 2 great goals on Monday, the guy works his socks off game in game out and personally I don't think he gets the credit he deserves. I even think that a certain member on this site might even change his opinion of Keogh. No? Well maybe you are right.
To summarise then I am over the moon with our league position and I honestly cannot wait for the next game to come. I would just like to end with the following:
"Super, Super Mick, Super, Super Mick, Super, Super Mick, Super Mick McCarthy!"
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the pressure is off,so the lads can play with freedom.
i'm a wolves pessamist,but i believe the job is all but done now.
Wolves: Championship Champions 08/09
With that attitude we should be able to finish with a flourish and go up as champions.
And your right - comments from the Blues fans says far more about the poor quality of their performances than it does about ours.
Would be great if we could finish it like champions on Saturday, but it may be we could lose all three games and still go up !
Somehow, this season has been our season, just like when MM got Sunderland up.
Weird though it is, I guess we have to give some credit to MM !!
After seeing the winner fly in at Derby I was sold on it, I have never seen a tighter more together team and fans set in my life.....lets just slam the door shut on any negatives on sat by beating QPR.
When that job is hopefully done we get the "Deckchairs and Cigars" out and look forward to whatever comes our way during the coming months!
Quit yo jibba jabba.
Love Life Love Keogh!