Kevin Doyle ready for new chapter and new challenge

The traffic lights are green but our taxi driver slams on the brakes in Wolverhampton’s city centre and Tomasz Kuszczak is ready to light up the sleepy Monday morning with some colorful language.

The Pole’s ire bubbles as his train of thought is broken. He had just been busy extolling the virtues of club-mate Kevin Doyle and was coming to his main point before being rudely interupted. “Where was I?,” asks the Wolves goalkeeper. “Oh yes, Doyley. That guy...let me tell you, he will surprise you. Just when you think you’ve got him figured out he’ll do something to make you like him even more.”

Kuszczak is showing his first act of kindness — the second will come later when he pays for our short taxi journey from Wolves’ training ground to the nearby train station — because he knows that Doyle will soon be on the other side of the world playing his football, so there is no need for such lavish compliments.