Reflecting The Frenzy

Time Soon For A Familiar Change Of Course 

Words of wisdom for two young Kiwis from Darren Bazeley, who played 80 games in three seasons at Wolves from 1999. The Watford promotion winner is now preparing to pit his wits against England.

Wolves Heroes will be retracing familiar tracks in the coming weeks of early summer to reflect the build-up of World Cup fever.

As has been the case for more than a decade now, our news content for several weeks will be dominated by stories related to international football or individuals involved in it, past and present.

The change of policy will last either for the length of the tournament or at least for the span of the home countries’ participation, which we hope will be one and the same!

England launch their Group L campaign against old foes Croatia two weeks on Wednesday (June 17). From that clash in Arlington, Texas, Thomas Tuchel and his squad head to Boston to do battle with Ghana six days later and end their group programme against Panama in New York on Saturday, June 27.

Before the action gets under-way for real, though, they face the New Zealand side led by Darren Bazeley in a friendly at Tampa a week tomorrow.

They then wrap up their programme of friendlies by taking on Costa Rica in Orlando four days later. No danger of them being unaware what the heat of an American summer is all about, then!

We have a number of story ideas in mind ready to be implemented but would welcome any suggestions or prompting from our readers.

Please click on the big ‘contact us’ box near the bottom of the home page or simply email us at info@wolvesheroes.com if you think you have something we might not have thought of.

We plan to start this series of specialised articles somewhere around the middle of June, shortly before England’s first World Cup fixture.

We close this piece by wishing all the very best to both they and Steve Clarke’s Scotland, who kick off their campaign against Haiti on Saturday, June 14.