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Blues 2, Wolverhampton Wanderers 2 - chaos in the first-half, dominance in the second. How the derby played out

Blues and Wolves fought a thrilling derby at St. Andrew's, with the hosts not getting all they perhaps deserved

06.09.26, 18:08 Updated 06.09.26, 19:24

Colin Tattum

Colin Tattum

There have been some entertaining derbies against Wolverhampton Wanderers down the years and this one was a sizzler.

Blues and Wolves have not met at this level since 2018 and the visitors came to St. Andrew's rated by most rational observers as likely candidate for automatic promotion.

They still have a glazing of Premier League quality and Blues took the billing of the underdog hoping to ruffle and upset.

That was pretty much the way of things when the sides clashed spikily in the days of McGhee and Muscat, and later on during the bankrolling of Mendes' Molineux enclave.

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Colin Tattum

Colin Tattum covered Blues for the Birmingham Mail & Sports Argus as correspondent & chief sports writer for 28 years before becoming head of media & communications at St. Andrew's in 2014. Most recently he worked in academy talent ID & recruitment before returning full circle by joining renowned journalist Neil Moxley with the launch of Forever Blues.

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