This weekend Wolves entertain West Ham for the first time in the top flight since March 1984. Mick McCarthy’s side will be buoyed by an excellent home record of 15 wins from their 23 league games in last season’s Championship title win. Wolves lost just three matches at Molineux on their march to the title and will have a bumper crowd behind them for their first match back in the Premier League.
Sylvan Ebanks-BlakeMick brought in Reading’s Kevin Doyle in a £6.5m deal which will add firepower to the side alongside the 2008/09 Championship’s top scorer Sylvan Ebanks-Blake. Combined these two scored a total of 43 league goals last season. Former Royals goalkeeper Marcus Hahnemann also joined and his experience of the Premier League may be vital to a relatively young team.
Wolves certainly won’t want to begin the Premier League season in a similar fashion to how they started their last top flight campaign as they began the 2003/04 season with a 5-1 hammering at Blackburn. West Ham made vast improvements under Gianfranco Zola last season but a similar result seems very unlikely.
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