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Connor vows to fight till the end
Wolves manager Terry Connor insisted he would 'keep fighting until the very end' after his team's dour 0-0 draw with Sunderland.
Connor is refusing to throw in the towel even though bottom-of-the-table Wolves look certain to be relegated from the Premier League following the stalemate, meaning he is still looking for his first win in charge of the Molineux side."We will keep fighting right until the very end because that is me, that is the players, that is the club," Connor said.
"I asked for us to be competitive in all 38 games so we will keep trying to pick up points and make sure that every game means something at the end of the season.
"I know that they will keep fighting until the very end because the first thing is that the players are an honest bunch and they have been brought up that way.
"That is something we have asked them to do until they came into the club. They are honest and hard-working.
"It is difficult where they are in the league but it is not impossible and over last few weeks sometimes performances get a bit lost because of the results but the lads have kept fighting.
"We can still stay up so there is no pressure off there. You are still trying to win the games and perform well. We want to get to Wigan still having some chance that we can stay in the league and if we can do that we will take it."
Wolves striker Steven Fletcher had a second-half goal disallowed after a foul on goalkeeper Simon Mignolet that left Connor cursing his luck.
"It is one of those that maybe if you are at the top you maybe get it but when you are at the bottom you don't get it," Connor said.
"I acknowledge that (Kevin) Foley did bump into the keeper but sometimes they are given and a bit of luck goes your way and you get three points out of the game. That was a break against us today.
"But we are delighted to take a point and keep a clean sheet and with a bit more quality finishing maybe we could have taken all three points.
"Ideally with the position we are in we needed all three players but the most important thing was to take something from the game.
"In the last few weeks we have taken something we have played well but not got the rewards we should have had. If we had scored then I don't think anyone could have held it against us."
Meanwhile, Sunderland boss Martin O'Neill described the match as a 'reality check' for his team.
He spoke out after club owner Ellis Short had lauded his manager in the match-day programme and spoken of his top-six aspirations for the club only for many fans to greet the final whistle with boos.
"We did not do enough to win the game and it was frustrating in that sense," O'Neill said.
"We had little moments here and there but not for any prolonged periods of the game. We should do more. I know that it has been a great effort by the players and I keep reminding myself about the bigger picture but overall we should be able to do better.
"It’s very nice of him (Short) to say but we just got a reality check. Those are the words I am probably searching for. We have done really fine but we have to keep it going, keep the momentum going and don't let it drop and today we did not create enough and that is frustrating."
As for the boos from home fans, he added: "Nothing really surprises me. I think it has been a terrific effort but then perhaps because it is Wolves who have been struggling and maybe people would expect us to be able to win the game.
"I wish it was just as easy as that. It doesn't work out like that."