Kevin Doyle - a right Royal signing!

Kevin Doyle and Mick McCarthy have been talking to Midlands Today's Ian Winter after the £6.5m transfer from Reading to Molineux was completed. tinyurl.com/doyleyoutube

The full BBC online story is here: tinyurl.com/kevindoyle

Anfield awakens Mardenborough memories

If you were only allowed to attend one Wolves game next season in the Premier League, what would it be?

For me, it's the Boxing Day trip to Anfield, provoking magical memories of my trip to Liverpool in January 1984.

No-one gave us a chance, even though Liverpool were without the injured Kenny Dalglish, as the team anchored to the foot of the table arrived on Merseyside.

But I'll never forget 3.13pm on January 14.

I can still picture Danny Crainie skipping past Phil Neal on the left, and crossing for Steve Mardenborough's shoulder to send the ball looping over Bruce Grobbelaar.

It was such a fantastically unexpected win, although Wolves over the previous few years had enjoyed great success against the Reds at Molineux.

Both John Richards and Mick Matthews secured single goal Molineux victories, and who will ever forget the stirring evening of November 25, 1980?

Wolves 4 Liverpool 1. It still reads as an unbelievable scoreline.

For me there's something magical about Wolves playing Liverpool. English football's team of the 50s playing the team of the 70s and 80s.

Whether it's Anfield , and the atmosphere created within, or just the fact that Liverpool are one of the world's best-known football clubs - and Wolves have earned the right to once again face the Reds.

Overall the fixture computer has been relatively kind to Wolves at the start of the season.

Relatively, the fixtures in August and September have scope for points accumulation. But we'll have to hold our nerve through October and November.

Today's the day the excitement becomes a reality, and even if we struggle through a sequence of games that bring us head to head with Everton, Villa, Stoke, Arsenal and Chelsea, I'm sure we'll still be in there fighting.

And I'll still have Boxing Day to look forward to.

Dann the man sparks transfer excitement

On the day Cristiano Ronaldo decided to run off to Spain rather than face George Elokobi, serious signs are emerging than Wolves are ready to make their first forays into the summer transfer market.

And if by this time next week Wolves' Premier League ranks have been swelled by Scott Dann, Marcus Hahnemann and Nenad Milijas, I'll be a happy Wolves fan.

Criticism of the Wolves hierarchy over their summer transfer inaction is frankly laughable.

What's the rush? And who have we missed out on so far?

It was always going to be mid to late June before any transfer rumours became reality, but it does look as though the moves for Dann, Hahnemann and Milijas are serious ones. You can just sense it.

We should have signed Dann when he was still at Walsall, and that will be a costly error. But it's all relative as Wolves tap into the Premier League millions.

Over 38 games Dann, Richard Stearman and Christophe Berra, with Jody Craddock as back-up, will do me, even if they struggle to handle Wayne Rooney, Fernando Torres and Didier Drogba in six of those matches.

I like what I read about Milijas, but haven't abandoned all hope of David Jones, Karl Henry and David Edwards making an impact.

And Hahnemann would be a shrewd signing, even if I believe that Mick McCarthy will show sufficient and justified confidence in Wayne Hennessey to establish himself in the Premier League.

On Wednesday our Premier League dream will come to life with the publication of the fixture list.

These three potential signings would confirm that Wolves have learned from the painful mistakes of 2003.

And there's still time for us to sign Michael Owen.