PLAYER SPONSORED BY:
PAUL CLIFT
Much-travelled Chris Iwelumo made a blistering start to his Wolves career and had already reached 15 goals for the season by the end of November.
A summer arrival from Charlton, the striker has also won his first two Scotland caps since arriving at Molineux and picked up the Championship Player of the Month award for November.
Injury affected his impressive exploits in the first half of the season and then indeed finished his campaign after suffering knee ligament damage following a tackle in the top-of-the-table derby at Birmingham in April of 2009.
But nothing could hide what was an influential first season at Wolves, in which the big striker finished with 16 goals from 35 outings.
Unfortunately he suffered more injury misery at the start of pre-season of 2009, breaking his metatarsal in the opening pre-season friendly against Perth Glory in Australia.
Iwelumo started his career in his native Scotland with St Mirren, before then playing in Denmark with Aarhus Fremad.
He then returned to England with Stoke and has also enjoyed success with Colchester as well as loan spells with York, Cheltenham and Brighton and a time in Germany with Alemannia Aachen.
Iwelumo made his long-awaited Premier League debut as a substitute against Aston Villa in October, 2009, before making his first start at former club Stoke.