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Sheep in Wolves' clothing

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Let's rewind to the beginning of the 2011-12 season: the general feeling amongst the pundits was that Wolves had made a couple of good signings which would improve the squad and help them achieve a respectable mid-table/bottom half Premiership position. April 2012: Wolves are relegated with three games still to play, boasting nine straight defeats in nine home matches and, despite our CEO's pointed comment of "This is no job for a novice" after sacking the previous manager, an utterly out of his depth novice in charge. Where, as the old cliche goes, did it all go wrong? Firstly, it's worth tentatively suggesting that the UK sports media are not entirely objective and unbiased, and  that Wolves-related coverage at that point might possibly, due to Mick McCarthy's genial nature and sometime membership of punditry's old boys' club, have been a tad rose-tinted. That being said, predictions of us comfortably solidifying our big league status wer...