Dyche: Boo boys won't bother MGW

HEAD coach Sean Dyche expects Nottingham Forest ace Morgan Gibbs-White to shrug off any hostile reception at former club Wolverhampton Wanderers tonight.

- SARAH CLAPSON

Three years on from his move from Molineux to the City Ground, the Reds playmaker is used to getting stick whenever he returns to his old stomping ground.

Last season, he was on the receiving end of a torrent of abuse from the home crowd and was booed from the first moment he touched the ball.

On that particular occasion, back in January, Gibbs-White’s response to the taunts was to score with only seven minutes on the clock and roll out his trademark fingers-in-ears celebration.

Forest went on to win 3-0 - a scoreline they would love to repeat tonight (7.30pm kickoff) as they bid to get back to winning ways in the Premier League after Sunday's home defeat against Brighton & Hove Albion.

“I'm not sure whether players feed off it,” Dyche said when asked about the grief Gibbs-White might receive from Wolves fans.

“It has always been there. But the way life has changed, it is often there on social media before the game - that’s a change in the reality of modern life.

“But players have often got stick going back to a former club. The measurement of how harsh or not that is for you to decide.