Wolves earn vital points to move above Villa

I make no apologies for the length of time it has taken me to post up the very latest update of the Braggers' League table following the Wolves1-0 defeat of Villa last Saturday.

To put it bluntly I'm still a very unhappy Villa fan, especially as I was there at Villa Park with all the other claret and blue supporters chanting "you don't know what you're doing" to Houllier when he took Albrighton off and then all the Wolves fans also started singing "you don't know what you're doing" in sympathy.

Like we need sympathy from Wolves fans.

But fair play to you, at least your players looked like they were vaguely interested in playing Premiership football next season. The only silver lining that day was hearing that the Noses had lost at Wigan.

Perhaps it wasn't such a great idea to start the Braggers' League this season. Stoke are the only ones doing any good in the Premiership and I only included them in the Braggers League to make up the flamin' numbers. (Only joking, we love our northern cousins in North Staffs really!)

And yes, I am a moaning Villa fan.


Collins and Dunne spotted on the Holte End







Well anyway, well done to the Dingles on your first win at Villa Park for over three decades as well as gaining a boost to your own survival hopes, even if it did add to Aston Villa's relegation worries.

Matt Jarvis scored the only goal of the game after Wolves had seen two first-half efforts disallowed.

Wolves now go up to second place in the Braggers' League, Only goal difference with Stoke keeps Wolves off the top, but they do have a game in hand.

Blues win the cup but are certs for bottom place

Euphoric after their victory over Arsenal in the Carling Cup final, Birmingham City may be the only one of our 5 Premiersip teams from the West Midlands to win any decent silver ware in the 2010-11 season, but in the Braggers' League they look certain to finish in bottom place having lost four of their seven local derbies so far this season with only one derby left to go to gain three points.

Just one week after their big trip to Wembley the feelgood factor was knocked out of the Blues by the Baggies in an incredible 3-1 win to the Black Country visitors. The win took Albion off the bottom of the Braggers' table and puts them on level pegging with Villa with the slimmest of goal differences seperating 2nd and 3rd place.

Albion had earned an additional Braggers' League point at the end of February with a 1-1 draw at Stoke.

The reality of the Braggers' League has been that there is very little between our 5 West Midlands teams in the Premiership and even leaders Stoke can still be easily leap-frogged by Villa, Albion or Wolves for the champions place at the top. Amazingly Wolves still have 4 local derby matches to play this season and will face Stoke, Villa, Albion and Blues in the remaining couple of months.

It's all still to play for in terms of Braggers' rights in this monumental season when 5 West Midlands teams met in the top flight for the first time in decades. But will they all survive in the Premiership on the final day of reckoning?