MISSION IMPOSSIBLE... SORTED!

FORMER Wolves boss Dave Jones recalls a match against Leicester as “booed off at half-time – and carried off shoulder-high at full-time”.

Wolves fans saw one of the great comebacks in Premier League history at Molineux in October, 2003 – well, those who had stayed until the final whistle did.

Alex Rae (above, right) remembers coming out for the second half with Wolves trailing 3-0 and noticing “half the stadium had emptied. People were disgusted”.

Wolves looked as if they had put a sticky start to the season behind them, but just 34 minutes into the match, they were 3-0 down. Les Ferdinand – one of 10 signings brought in by Foxes boss Micky Adams during the summer – got the first two and Ricardo Scimeca rifled home the third.

Rae remembers the Wolves team being “shell-shocked” at half-time and said the aim after the break was “to nick a goal. At no point did we think we would go on and win it”.

Nor did Leicester’s fans – many of them cheered ironically after Colin Cameron pulled a goal back for Wolves, seven minutes after the restart – but, another seven minutes on, it was 3-2.

“Once we got the second goal, we thought, ‘This is a possibility’,” said

Rae, and it was the

Scot who came up with the 67th-minute equaliser.

He anticipated where Denis Irwin’s cross was heading rather better than Leicester’s defence and put his header past keeper Ian Walker.

“I thought, ‘We’ve got time left to get a winner’,” said Rae. There were five minutes left when Irwin steered a low cross into the six-yard box.

Henri Camara had fired only blanks in his opening six games, but this time the Senegal striker was on target – and Wolves had pulled off their Mission Impossible.