Wolves Warm Up With Trip To Dalymount Park

Bohemian FC is delighted to announce that Wolverhampton Wanderers will play a friendly at Dalymount Park on Saturday 17th July (kick-off 3pm). The English Premier League side will meet Bohemians in the first match of their pre-season programme.

Mick McCarthy will be managing his team in the top flight of English football for a second consecutive season in 2010-11. He has been manager of Wolves since 2006 and has brought in several Irish players, including Kevin Foley, Andy Keogh and star striker Kevin Doyle, who made the joint-highest number of appearances (34) for the club last season. Ex-Bohemian Stephen Ward has made 90 league starts with the first team since joining in January 2007 though he has had a knee injury this season. Ward will make the trip with the team home to Dublin even if he is not fit to play.

McCarthy recalled the “extremely successful” trip to Dalymount Park three years ago. “We are always well looked after but more importantly the training and matches offer just what we need at that stage of pre-season,” the former Irish international said.

“The other big advantage is that it’s reasonably close to home in the event of us needing to speak to any potential transfer targets and is also fairly accessible for supporters who I know often like to follow the team during pre-season,” McCarthy added. “We’re all looking forward to the trip, which, along with all the other fixtures, should give us a really competitive build-up to the season.”

McCarthy has made it clear he aims to strengthen the Wolves squad for next season, and this meeting with Bohemians may be an opportunity for an early sight of any new talent he has attracted. While Kevin Doyle is the subject of rumours about transfer away from Wolves, at least one other Irish international is being mentioned as likely to join Wolves.

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