Roy’s the clown in this circus

MICK MCCARTHY could hardly wipe the smile off his face.

He’d been speaking about how bleak things had looked for his Wolves side after a series of setbacks in the relegation dogfight over the Christmas period — Fulham and West Ham winning, Birmingham burgling a point against Manchester United and, worst of all, his own team going down to fellow strugglers Wigan.

“And then we go and win at Anfield,” he said, in a blissfully happy, slightly bemused, ‘who’d-a-thunk-it?’ kind of way.