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Saturday sees a potentially mouth-watering clash as Wolverhampton Wolves entertain the footballing team that represent the cathedral city of Peterborough. With both teams almost reluctantly heading towards an end-of-season promotion battle, one thing for certain is this top-of-the-table clash will be the tie of the weekend in the Football League Sky Bet League 1.
Boro, or Posh as they are affectionately known, were the divisions early pace-setters, bulldozering through the league with ten wins and just one reverse in their first 13 games, with boss Darren Ferguson being talked about in hushed tones as a potential future Manchester United manager and the time likened to the Haarlem Globetrotters. However an awful October saw 5 defeats on the bounce and the team have struggled for consistency ever since, with only a victory in the Johnsons Pain Trophy over former Wolves legend Paul Cook's Chesterfield giving their fans something to cheer about in what has truth be told been a disappointing season.
Peterboroughs head coach is former Wolves midfielder Darren Ferguson. Darren has a famous dad - Sir Alex, who was also a football manager and an author. His recent book fired a broadside at this weekends hosts for mismanaging his son whilst he took home a wage under the guise of professional footballer here at Molineux. Fergie's revelation was two days before Peterborough embarked on their horrific run of form - and many attribute the interfering old Scotsman's attack as being a contributory factor in the clubs turn of fortunes this season.
With Peterborough likely to be unchanged the onus will be on the imaginatively named Brit Assombalonga to fire home the required goals to make this a happy weekend for them. Assombalonga has been the divisions stand out goal-getter, finding the net 29 times this season. Wolves will also have to watch Michael Paul Trevor Bostwick, who, whilst unable to claim that he shares his naming convention with a pin-up from my pubescent years like Britt Eklands namesake Assombalonga can, can still boast an impressive set of names and his 6ft 1in frame makes him handy from set pieces with 3 goals to his name this season.
Wolves and Peterborough have shared many players over the years including one who will likely start on Saturday, Mark Little. Mark is often confused with the Australian funny-man of the same name who played Mrs Mangle's much-maligned son Joe in Australian daytime soap Neighbours, however his marauding runs down the touchline will be no laughing matter for Jackett's men as they look to maintain their impressive defensive record.
Another is a midfielder who knows Molineux only too well, Mick Gooding. Gooding never settled in the old gold and struggled to recapture the goalscoring form that prompted Graham Turner to fork out £100k for his services, but he can still boast a League One title medal, something everyone out there on the pitch on Saturday will still have great aspirations for.
Cheering his boyhood faithful on from his Las Vegas penthouse will be family-man and all-round-good-egg Mike Tyson. Born in New York, Tyson had no local soccer team to support growing up as a boy, but fell in love with Posh after a visit to the city in 2010. When he's not busy with art and crafts projects - one of which was to design a fake penis to fool drug testers after smashing a few cheeky lines of coke before a fight, he likes nothing better than to tune in to Talksport to find out how happy ginger-haired presenter Adrian Durham is at the latest scoreline in boroughs topsy-turvy season.
With the season reaching critical mass a noisy and raucous 22,000 is expected at Molineux including a near on 800-strong following from Peterborough where Wolves will be looking to bish bash Posh in the race for promotion.
Boro, or Posh as they are affectionately known, were the divisions early pace-setters, bulldozering through the league with ten wins and just one reverse in their first 13 games, with boss Darren Ferguson being talked about in hushed tones as a potential future Manchester United manager and the time likened to the Haarlem Globetrotters. However an awful October saw 5 defeats on the bounce and the team have struggled for consistency ever since, with only a victory in the Johnsons Pain Trophy over former Wolves legend Paul Cook's Chesterfield giving their fans something to cheer about in what has truth be told been a disappointing season.
Peterboroughs head coach is former Wolves midfielder Darren Ferguson. Darren has a famous dad - Sir Alex, who was also a football manager and an author. His recent book fired a broadside at this weekends hosts for mismanaging his son whilst he took home a wage under the guise of professional footballer here at Molineux. Fergie's revelation was two days before Peterborough embarked on their horrific run of form - and many attribute the interfering old Scotsman's attack as being a contributory factor in the clubs turn of fortunes this season.
With Peterborough likely to be unchanged the onus will be on the imaginatively named Brit Assombalonga to fire home the required goals to make this a happy weekend for them. Assombalonga has been the divisions stand out goal-getter, finding the net 29 times this season. Wolves will also have to watch Michael Paul Trevor Bostwick, who, whilst unable to claim that he shares his naming convention with a pin-up from my pubescent years like Britt Eklands namesake Assombalonga can, can still boast an impressive set of names and his 6ft 1in frame makes him handy from set pieces with 3 goals to his name this season.
Wolves and Peterborough have shared many players over the years including one who will likely start on Saturday, Mark Little. Mark is often confused with the Australian funny-man of the same name who played Mrs Mangle's much-maligned son Joe in Australian daytime soap Neighbours, however his marauding runs down the touchline will be no laughing matter for Jackett's men as they look to maintain their impressive defensive record.
Another is a midfielder who knows Molineux only too well, Mick Gooding. Gooding never settled in the old gold and struggled to recapture the goalscoring form that prompted Graham Turner to fork out £100k for his services, but he can still boast a League One title medal, something everyone out there on the pitch on Saturday will still have great aspirations for.
Cheering his boyhood faithful on from his Las Vegas penthouse will be family-man and all-round-good-egg Mike Tyson. Born in New York, Tyson had no local soccer team to support growing up as a boy, but fell in love with Posh after a visit to the city in 2010. When he's not busy with art and crafts projects - one of which was to design a fake penis to fool drug testers after smashing a few cheeky lines of coke before a fight, he likes nothing better than to tune in to Talksport to find out how happy ginger-haired presenter Adrian Durham is at the latest scoreline in boroughs topsy-turvy season.
With the season reaching critical mass a noisy and raucous 22,000 is expected at Molineux including a near on 800-strong following from Peterborough where Wolves will be looking to bish bash Posh in the race for promotion.
