How Wolves paid the price for poor recruitment with humiliating relegation

Maybe it was fitting that Nuno Espirito Santo relegated Wolves. It was the popular Portuguese coach who led the club to the Premier League eight years ago. Now at West Ham, his point at Crystal Palace has consigned his old club back to the Championship.

Down with five games to go, the reality is that Wolves' relegation has been coming since at least the start of this campaign. They lost their first six games and never did managed to clamber their way off the bottom of the table let alone outside of the bottom three.