Zola or a Nobody? Wolves opt for a Nobody!

With the Wolves chairman insisting that the inability to source a replacement manager for Mick McCarthy is not embarrassing, poor Gianfranco Zola must be wondering what he has to do to get another crack at football management. Such was the desperation of Wolves that they considered Walter Smith and Alan Turds Curbishley, two dinosaurs of the game who many believed were now extinct - but both said no! But despite that desperation, they weren't desperate enough, it seems, to offer the job to Zola.

So Gianfranco continues to wander around in football's wilderness, damned by his dog days at West Ham. Grant already has a job, of course. Clarke is ensconced as Number Two at Liverpool. Pardew is doing superbly at Newcastle. And now even Curbishley has been offered the chance to manage again. Only Zola is friendless in the job market despite the Italian's affability.

Why? Everybody likes him. Everybody respects him. He has friends in high places. But nobody wants to employ him.

Maybe, just maybe, it's because he is crap at the management job!

As for Wolves, they are a laughing stock! How can they sack McCarthy, trawl for a replacement and end up appointing the Irishman's number two? It's a complete joke.