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Whistling in the dark?

Wolverhampton Wanderers had just lost their fifth home game in succession, have won only one of their past 14 in the Premier League, and are a Championship team in all but name.

Connor, their L-plated manager, is plainly out of his depth and the board clearly boobed by sacking Mick McCarthy a month ago without a decent replacement to hand. The fans, feeling betrayed by a potentially catastrophic mistake, vented their spleen before and after the dismal performance on Saturday when the club's owner, Steve Morgan, and the chief executive, Jez Moxey, had to run the gauntlet with police protection. The players, too, were abused, to which Jamie O’Hara tweeted his objection.

It is a sad state of affairs for erstwhile giants of the domestic game, who are learning the hard way that promoting from within hardly ever works – largely because most managers employ assistants who pose no threat to their tenure.

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Wolves face Manchester United next Sunday, then Arsenal and Manchester City in April, and Connor was whistling in the dark when he said: “We spoke about the situation after the game and we still believe we are good enough to get out of trouble. One result doesn’t break a season and we’ll continue to compete.”