O'Neil delivers scathing criticism of Wolves plight: It's clearly dire. Extremely dire.

Wolves face Manchester City on Sunday and the Wolves manager expressed, "The unexpected defeat against Brentford was a wake-up call for us. It served as a reminder that in this league, any team can defeat us if we make crucial errors. We must eliminate those mistakes if we want to compete against all the teams in the league."

"Maybe off the back of a bad run you see Brentford come in at the end of it and you think, ‘OK, let's go to Brentford and let's win’. It's never, ever going to be that easy. You need to take care of all the bits around your game.

“We conceded some goals that were almost unexplainable, and it did then just snowball into an afternoon where the game never really got going for us. We were always chasing, and you end up opening up and causing some problems to yourself. So, a bad day for us, the Brentford day, but one that hopefully lets the lads realise that no matter who we play at this level, we need to be 100 per cent on our game.”

He also said on Friday: “Points wise, it’s obviously bad. Very bad. I'll be the biggest critic of my team, I know we will face criticism from outside, but I'll have the most critical opinion and I felt a real need to be critical of them after the second half against Chelsea, the second half against Aston Villa and the 90 minutes at Brentford. I thought we were below our own standards in those, but the rest of it we've given a good go against some tough opposition, and come up a bit short."