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Welcome to the Championship (6/6): Wolverhampton Wanderers

The final episode of the Exiled Robin’s series of six posts introducing you to the Championship’s newest members focuses on perhaps the most familiar of all to City fans, with regular clashes against Wolves over the past 10-15 years.   Find other posts in the series here: Welcome to the Championship (1/6): Blackburn Rovers Welcome to the Championship (2/6): Sheffield Wednesday Welcome to the Championship (3/6): Charlton Athletic Welcome to the Championship (4/6): Bolton Wanderers Welcome to the Championship (5/6): Huddersfield Town About……Wolverhampton Wanderers Nickname: ‘Wolves’         Manager: Stale Solbakken Play at: Molineux, 99 miles from Ashton Gate Capacity: 31,500; Last Season Avg Attendance: 25,682 Interesting Facts:   Wolves led the way in many aspects seen as standard in the modern game – although others had dabbled, Wolves hosted a series of floodlit matches against illust...

Season Previews

Well the quiet summer period is nearly over and the first game is looming large on the horizon. In the football blogosphere - I think that's now officially a word - season previews have gone mad, with Twitter offering fans the chance to easily interact with each other and get a series of comments on the other teams in the league. Below I've attached links to a few of the previews I've contributed to for your perusal. Enjoy! I've got to start with this quite incredible collaborative effort between top football league bloggers @twounfortunates http://thetwounfortunates.blogspot.com/ and @the72Football http://theseventytwo.com/ They have pooled their considerable resources, links, contributors and acquaintances and put together a simply fabulous 108-page, printable blogzine (I'm pretty sure that's not a word!). Go to either of their homepages and look for the Seventy Two Unfortunates football league preview. More than 18,000 people have read it to dat...