Selecting the players, games and kits from Old Gold history he deems to be the most underrated is BBC Radio WM broadcaster and commentator, Mike Taylor.
Goalkeeper | Matt Murray
The youngest generation of Wolves fans may know Matt as an increasingly polished broadcaster. They should know that his goalkeeping was just as accomplished, and he qualifies as underrated only because injuries so cruelly limited his career. We’ll never quite know how highly he might have ended up being rated on a wider stage had they not done so.
Defender | Jody Craddock
Like Murray, becoming well-known for his second career, as a skilled and imaginative artist. Don’t forget his first career, half of which he spent with Wolves, often alongside players with a higher national profile, like Gary Breen or future Premier League winner Joleon Lescott. Craddock was always durable and dependable.
Midfielder | Dave Edwards
Purple goalscoring patches in 2014 and 2016 finally seemed to earn Edwards belated acceptance from his harshest critics. Across nearly ten years and three divisions, he ran hard in midfield and never hid, even in the darkest hours. Various media outlets now benefit from the shrewd judgement he showed as an interviewee in his playing days.
Forward | Andy Keogh
Another of Mick McCarthy’s ‘put a shift in’ specialists. There were sharper finishers around – contemporaries like Sylvan Ebanks-Blake and Chris Iwelumo outscored him in the 2009 promotion – but my recollection is that Wolves generally looked a better team when he was on the field than not. And occasionally, like Easter Monday ’09 at Derby, he stole the show.
Manager | Kenny Jackett
Yes, Wolves were the biggest fish in League One in the season Kenny Jackett led them to the title, but it could only happen because Jackett, the right man for the moment, cleaned up the mess he inherited in 2013 first. All the subsequent progress stands on the foundations he laid.
Match | Norwich 0-2 Wolves, 1997
An “I was there when…” game, now existing only in memory and online clips. Robbie Keane, pitched in for his debut at 17, bewitched Norwich and scored two startling goals. The thought that you are catching the first light from a bright new star is a rare feeling. By 5pm that day we all knew we’d seen something of that magnitude.
Season | 2021/22
A season not remembered as fondly as the peak-Nuno years; had Wolves not conceded a desperately late goal at Arsenal in February, it could have been. In the brief Bruno-ball mania, Wolves had won six of their previous eight games. It was a lot of fun up to that point. But the Arsenal winner was the pebble that started an avalanche and swept Lage out of Molineux by the autumn.
Shirt | 1991/92 home
One of my pet theories is that everyone thinks the best era of entertainment – music, TV, films, sport, whatever – is what was around when they were about 15. With that in mind, I looked up the Wolves shirt from when I was 15, and it’s a no-frills classic: classic shade, classic badge, classic sponsor with a local connection (Goodyear). I rest my case.
This article originally featured in Wolves’ official 2025/26 matchday programme. Last season’s programmes are still available to purchase online through retailers Curtis Sports.