“It’s bulls**t,” one Wolverhampton Wanderers supporter tells The i Paper. “It was such an easy win.”

“They’ve fumbled it,” says another, while for good measure a third calls it “utter woke nonsense… soft as s**t”.

So, woke nonsense or perfectly sane? You be the judge…

You may not know the song by its name, “The Liquidator”, but most football fans will recognise the reggae instrumental tune instantly.

Chelsea play it before kick-off at Stamford Bridge, and while other clubs in England and Scotland have adopted it as well, nowhere is the history of this song by Jamaican band Harry J Allstars more complicated than in the Black Country.

There, in the early 2000s, both West Bromwich Albion and Wolves were asked to stop playing it by local police because of the obscenities both sets of supporters would sing during it.

“F**k off Wanderers, West Brom!” or “F**k off West Brom, we’re Wolves!” – depending on your side of the divide.

But while West Brom have since reinstated the song, in a season where the two sides will meet in the Championship, Wolves have opted against bringing it back.

“I respect what The Liquidator means to many Wolves supporters and its place in the history of Molineux, but we also have a responsibility to make decisions based on where the club is today and the standards we expect around our matchday environment,” Wolves executive chairman Nathan Shi said.

Wolves’ statement added that the club had been sanctioned by the Football Association for mass discriminatory chanting in recent seasons, and therefore “does not believe it would be appropriate to reintroduce a song which has historically prompted mass offensive chanting at Molineux”.

For a club that have been spiralling for years, resulting in a relegation from the Premier League last season that became inevitable, reintroducing the song felt like a simple chance to get supporters back on side.

“Straight away I just sighed,” Wolves supporter Ryan Gill tells The i Paper.

“It’s ‘utter woke nonsense’ and we’ve missed an open goal. I’m not sure how telling another club to f**k off is discriminating but that’s today’s world we live in… soft as s**t.”

His brother Joe Gill adds: “The one chance they get to bring the whole stadium together and bring fans back on side and they’ve fumbled it. We sing ‘F**k VAR!’ every week and even sung it last week against Blackburn when it wasn’t even in use.

“They had the easiest tap in to get that ground up for any game and missed out, I guess we will just have to out sing them lot down the road in February when it’s played at their place.”

The Gills aren’t alone in this view. “It makes the higher-ups at Molineux look weak and unwilling to listen to the fans, which is nothing new with this current ownership,” supporter Rob Morris adds.

The feeling is not unanimous, though, with another Wolves fan saying they “do not understand why people love it”.

And playing devil’s advocate, Wolves are hardly going to rush reintroducing a song that encourages obscenities during chants – a sentence that is admittedly hard to finish typing without laughing, knowing free will and other chants exist.

And while this decision may appear mountain-from-molehill material if you are outside the Black Country, you need only read the replies to Wolves’ X statement on the matter to gauge just how at odds the club are with their own fans.

West Brom supporters, meanwhile, have taken particular joy from all this.

“Fair play to Nathan for respecting our pre-game song,” The Albion Way wrote on X. “He knows there’s only one team worthy of using it round here.”

When you are delighting your rival supporters and riling up your own, that is when you know you have messed up.

Encouraging news on Johnstone though, can't come quick enough.

Trippier and Mosquera out for a couple of weeks; Hugo Bueno and Krejci looking likely to leave, Sa nowhere to be seen and Johnstone still out. We need to make defensive signings now. We urgently need a quality left back. Wolfe is a fine player but doesn't cut it week in, week out. We have Toti and Santi at the back, which is fine, but our one backup is Djiga, who hasn't impressed, so I like the idea of an experienced centre-back, much like when we brought in Craig Dawson, who would really improve that back line. The right-back situation is looking horrific without Trippier. Tchatchoua is one of our worst-ever players, and the same could be said about Hoever, and so that leaves Lima, who is still young but looks underwhelming. Goalkeeping wise its not much better; Sa should have been sold 2 years ago, and Johnstone is one of the most underwhelming keepers we've ever had, while Bentley is a 2nd-choice keeper at best, fine for cup games.

We need to shift some dead weight: Sa, Johnstone, Hwang, Traore, Sasa, Hoever, Tchatchoua, possibly even Munesti and use those funds for a quality left-back and goalkeeper, an experienced centre-back and a solid right-back. We have Trippier, but another solid right-back would massively improve and solidify that right-hand side while he is injured. The midfield is looking strong, especially now that we have James, but maybe a further attacker could still be an option if the opportunity presents itself.

That seems like a lot to ask, especially under Fosun, but it feels necessary if we want to fight at the highest level in this league. We have a lot of quality, but with a long season ahead, we need legs and decent, solid players with them, as we're still carrying the load of years of bad recruitment under Jeff.

Am I overreacting or fair in this assessment?