Wolves Enter A Break Of The Most Freakish Kind

Considering the deep gloom that has hung over Molineux at times in the last few months, this has also been the season that keeps on giving.

Not so much in the on-field results sense, although that aspect has improved considerably since Christmas, with the outcomes against Arsenal, Villa and Liverpool (League) standing out as truly memorable. 

We refer more to all the statistical oddities 2025-26 has thrown in our direction – manna from heaven for those of us who love to delve into the club’s history books for comparisons.

Have Wolves, for example, ever embarked on a 50-day break between home matches during a season? And we’re not talking about weather-enforced delays here.

On a similar theme and with some mathematical neatness, how unusual is it for them to now be going 25 days without a fixture at all?

Well, there was no such gap at this time last year, nor the one before, nor the one immediately prior to that. If ever.

And, for example, in 1969-70 (if we can hark back to the sort of era with which Wolves Heroes is most synonymous),  Bill McGarry’s Wanderers played no fewer than seven matches from March 17 (the day after this week’s draw at Brentford) to April 10 (the day the side emerge from their unusual break by visiting Nuno’s West Ham).

And that wasn’t a season that contained any cup replays – just a considerable amount of the sort of weather disruption that was commonplace before undersoil heating and milder winters came along. 

Rob Edwards was asked by Sky Sports about the long break straight after the televised clash at the Gtech Stadium and wore a somewhat perplexed look over how the fixture list has panned out. 

The bringing-forward of the home game against Arsenal has been a factor but there are also an international break and a dedicated FA Cup quarter-final weekend looming in successive weeks – strange planning to say the least.

On top of that is the fact that Wolves are currently in a run of three successive away games, having recently played four home games (all at night) in the space of two and a half weeks.

And two of those Molineux clashes were three evenings apart, against the same club, so it becomes curiouser and curiouser!

We could go much further with this overview but should perhaps spare our readers any further statistical overload. Except to say that, despite the big improvement in Molineux results, it will be three and a half months since Wolves last scored at the North Bank/Stan Cullis Stand end by the time they kick off against visiting Tottenham on Saturday, April 25.

Thankfully, those at the opposite end have been treated to some epic close-up celebrations in the meantime.