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New Middlesbrough manager Gordon Strachan may have slipped up on his first day in charge of the Riverside Stadium outfit, by inadvertedly revealing a list of transfer targets.

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Wolves will host Aston Villa this week at the Molineux this Saturday on ESPN2 (for all of you US viewers) in what should prove to be a hard fought match between two local rivals. This big derby match-up will aim to please a near-capacity crowd that will be flooding into the Molineux.

Wolves

Team News:

• Manager Mick McCarthy will be hoping his team shuts down Richard Dunne as he tried to sign him over the summer.

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Blackburn v. Wolves Team news: Good news for Blackburn, Australian Brett Emerton is back in contention after a thigh injury, Franco Di Santo and Ryan Nelsen passed fit. Although, Steven Reid is still sidelined with an ankle problem. Wolves will be without Sylvan Ebanks-Blake (hamstring), Micheal Kightly (broken metatarsal), Chris Iwelumo (also out with broken metatarsal) and Kevin [. Click to continue reading...

Midweek, and therefore mostly useless, version. But certainly worth consideration for next week's matches.
Injuries mount for Wolves

Striker Sylvan Ebanks-Blake is sidelined for a couple of weeks with a hamstring injury picked up in Saturday's opening-day defeat to West Ham, while right-back Kevin Foley is also ruled out for a similar spell with a medial ligament problem.

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Written by Seb Gevers
When George Burley took over at the helm of the Scottish national side, he knew the scale of the task ahead of him. He knew, because history tells its own story. Scotland, a team forever on the edge of qualification. Scotland, a team forever on the edge of the next round. Click to continue reading...

Wolverhampton Wanderers Biggest Ins: Marcus Hahnemann, even in reserve, is an experienced goal keeper who will help the young crop Mick McCarthy has. Kevin Doyle is a good depth purchase up top while Greg Halford is a good right sided box to...
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Chris Iwelumo was hoping to make his comeback from injury in time to take his spot in the Wolves team for the start of the season and to take part in Scotland's World Cup qualifiers but the striker looks like missing the first two months of the season as a ... Click to continue reading...

The next World Cup qualifier for Scotland is against Norway on the 12th of August and Chris Iwelumo wants to be part of the action but his recent surgery on a metatarsal injury picked up in a pre-season friendly against Perth Glory may rule the striker out. "I'll do whatever I ... Click to continue reading...

by Usman Azad, Football Perth Editor
FOOTBALL PERTH takes a look back at some of the memorable and no-sot-memorable points of the Perth Glory versus Wolverhampton Wanderers friendly on Friday.
Promising result from both teams
Perth Glory and Wolves can take plenty of positives from the game. Click to continue reading...

One game down, one victory secured, one bad injury - and we're still no clearer knowing which team Mick McCarthy will send out on Saturday August 15.
I think there are five certainties for McCarthy's line-up against West Ham - Kevin Foley, George Elokobi, Michael Kightly, Sylvan Ebanks-Blake and Kevin Doyle. Click to continue reading...

After all the exciting transfer rumours following our title-winning promotion to the Premier League, finally a fact.
Mick McCarthy has confirmed he's been talking to Sir Alex Ferguson.
But where does that leave us? In reality, precisely no further forward in trying to second guess the transfer activity of McCarthy, Morgan and Moxey. Click to continue reading...

They are the best attacking duo this season in Coca Cola Championship. They are playing with the leading team who is with six points of advantage in front of Birmingham City and who is a dominant side this half-season. Two of them scored the total of 25 goals of 45 the entire team scored. They [...] Click to continue reading...

5pm last Saturday. George Burley is being hailed by the press for the double substitution that led to Chris Iwelumo's debut goal, the winning goal. Somewhere in a darkened corner of Hampden Kris Boyd decides to turn his back on his national team. Nobody cares. One moment of inexplicable madness can, of course, change a lot of things. Click to continue reading...

Dear Chris Iwelumo, Feel better soon, it could've been worse (even though it was out of your hands). Love, The Offside Click to continue reading...

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Norway did you miss that! You know it is a bad miss when the culprit looks on in shock as the ball misses the target. This is exactly what Scotland striker Chris Iwelumo is doing in this photograph. He had a gilt-edged chance to score the winning goal against Norway on his international debut. But [. Click to continue reading...

This is going to go down as one of the worst sitter misses in recent history. You could even argue it was harder to miss the target than hit it. But while all of Scotland is up in arms, you'll also notice the flag never went up with Chris Iwelumo clearly offside (albeit slightly). [...] Click to continue reading...

Chris Iwelumo somehow misses an open goal for Scotland :

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FO hero Jonny Brain
Weekend Wager summary -- Despite the ignominy of Gillingham's freakish 7-0 defeat at Shrewsbury it was a satisfactory first week for FO's bets. A one point stake on each of the 15 selections returned an overall profit of approximately four points. Hats off to Macclesfield goalie Jonny Brain who put behind him a dreadful start to the season, keeping out 24 Bournemouth attempts and landing a FO a 4/1 winner. Click to continue reading...

If you believed the e-mails I was getting last week and read some the internet message boards the Charlton players were a total disgrace and had "no heart or desire to succeed". Chris Iwelumo was described as "a big lump" amongst other things and one fan even went as far to call him: "the biggest waste [...] Click to continue reading...