Nobody likes change. It can be unsettling and unnerving. Sometimes it’s for the better and you get used to it (like when they changed Ben in EastEnders), sometimes you pine for the good old days (Opal Fruits were better than Starburst).
There were a series of notable and, yes, unsettling changes when Wolves played Southampton on Monday night.
Chiefly among them was the absence of a man who’d played the previous 10,890 minutes of Wolves’ league fixtures. Conor Coady had started and finished every league game for the previous three years, a run which began against Aston Villa in October 2017 when he was sandwiched in-between Danny Batth and Roderick Miranda. Ben Marshall came off the bench. It was a long time ago.
As if Coady’s non-appearance wasn’t strange enough, Nuno Espirito Santo lined his team up with four at the back. The last time Wolves started a game with a four-man defence, Silvio was in it. And Coady was at right-back…
