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.