They are the best attacking duo this season in Coca Cola Championship. They are playing with the leading team who is with six points of advantage in front of Birmingham City and who is a dominant side this half-season. Two of them scored the total of 25 goals of 45 the entire team scored. They are the power Wolves called Chris Iwelumo and Sylvan Ebanks-Blake.
Chris Iwelumo is not a very young player, but it was not until the couple of seasons ago that he matured completely as a player reaching his top form. He changed a lot of clubs (St. Mirren, Stoke City, Danish Aarhus, Barnsley, Brighton, Alemania Achen) until he finally hit the spotlights. 2005/2006 season saw him helping Colchester United in their Championship promotion race and in the next season in their historic success, 1th place in the second league. He was great partnered with Jamie Cureton. His four goals to Hull in a 5-1 win will stay remembered, but also his Player of the month award he received in November 2007 when, as the Charlton Athletic player, he had scored two last-minute winners in two consecutive rounds.
Chris Iwelumo
This summer, he came to Wolverhampton Wanderers and fitted in just great, netting like mad, scoring 13 goals this autumn. Interestingly enough, he is not injury liable player: last season saw him playing EVERY SINGLE game for Charlton, while the only three games he was out this season with the Wolves were because of the unrighteous red card he received in the Preston game when he also scored his hat-trick in their 3-1 win. His three months at Molineux already got him a skipper arm band when Karl Henty was injury-sidelined, while George Burley, Scottish national team manager honored him with a call in October. Iwelumo had his debut for the Scottish national team but has been a largely disappointing missing an empty goal from three meter distance in World Cup Qualifier against Norway at Hampden Park (0-0). Still, his form and a ‘scoring powers’ guarantee new calls from Burley.
Similar to his partnership with Jamie Cureton in Colchester, or Andy Gray in Charlton, Iwelumo has once again done a great job with his current partner, Sylan Ebanks Blake. This chap is a lot younger but with a nothing less interesting career. Although a Liverpool fan in his hometown of Cambridge, Ebanks-Blake went through Manchester United youth academy, 2004-2006, played for the reserve team, then for the first team in League Cup, while he also spent some time on the subs’ bench in a couple of Champions League duels in the autumn of 2005. He even had the time to break his leg and heal it in the spring of 2006 when he was loaned to Belgian Royal Antwerpen where he played nine games, scoring four goals in the process.
Sylvan Ebanks Blake
Plymouth Argyle bought his contract from Manchester United that summer paying him some misery money (around 200 000 pounds), and young Blake started getting more and more time from Ian Holloway with the Pilgrims’ quest towards the upper half of the standings. He sealed his starting line-up place that spring, next autumn (2007) was brilliant for the lad – he scored 11 goals, signed for Wolves that January where he bagged 12 more thus becoming the top-scorer last season with 23 goals. He scored the additional 12 for Molineux side, so Red Devils can only cry over letting their talented kid going away. This autumn, he also played his national debut for England’s U21.
As long as the two mentioned are around, Wolves’ manager Mick McCarthy shouldn’t worry about a thing, just to take his organized PACK of Wolves to the Premier League. We still don’t have the information about the duo’s possible new destinations, but one thing is sure, Wolves will not let go of them that easily. McCarthy was granted with 10 mil pounds for January transfer campaign, so there is no doubt the excellent Wolves will bring in the extra quality in their strong squad, and they will hold a strong grip on their golden duo.
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