Jørgen Strand Larsen, denied a £55m move to Newcastle at the end of the transfer window, remonstrated angrily with the home team’s coaching staff on the full-time whistle after he had been substituted late on as, for the second successive week, Wolves’ bid to get their season up and running was stymied by a late equaliser.
The Norway striker, recently back from an achilles injury, had just shot against a post, with Wolves leading through Bart Verbruggen’s own goal, as Brighton pushed for the leveller that duly arrived from Jan Paul van Hecke. Vítor Pereira, the Wolves head coach, had been dismissed just before the Premier League’s bottom side went ahead in the first half, when Marshall Munetsi’s volley rebounded off the bar, the goalkeeper and in.
