Seven years ago today, Ryan Bennett scored a dramatic last-minute winner for Wolves against Bristol City. The goal, coming in a tense top-of-the-table clash, remains a highlight of Wolves' Championship-winning season.
It is December 30th on Monday. One of those dates in the calendar between Christmas and New Year when no one quite knows what day it is. Wolves fans know, though. It’s Ryan Bennett day. The seventh anniversary of the defender’s last gasp winner at Bristol City which provided one of so many magical moments of the Championship -winning season. Think Bully at the Hawthorns. Boly in Istanbul. Henry at the Valley.
One of those out-of-body experiences of sheer, unadulterated delirium at being in close proximity to such incredible drama. It was a top-of-the-table clash between irresistible force and immoveable object with league leaders Wolves heading to Ashton Gate on a run of ten unbeaten and City just one defeat in 13. It didn’t look great for Wolves early on with Danny Batth’s harsh sending off and City going in front, only for their keeper Frank Fielding to also see red before Barry Douglas’s free kick leveller. And it was Douglas who then teed up Bennett for a clinical last gasp header, celebrated not just by the adoring hordes of Wolves fans behind the goal but also, to the annoyance of the home contingent in the Directors Box, Head Coach Nuno Espirito Santo, who himself had also been sent from the touchline.“Even now that’s a moment and a goal which people still talk to me about,” Bennett recalls. “We were both at the top of the table and it was one those big games around Christmas where it was imperative for both sides to win to get some key momentum heading into the New Year. “You could feel it was a massive game with the atmosphere surrounding it on the night, even more so with the red cards and then Nuno sent off to the Directors Box. “I had actually come on after Danny’s sending off, and the goal was one of those things that just sometimes happens in football. “I don’t remember too much about it now, apart from Barry sticking it right on my head from the free kick, and everyone going mental as I ran of
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