What a difference a week makes!

It was all doom and gloom for Town fans after the miserable performance against Leeds United at Elland Road, but now it’s a celebration of two encouraging wins on the bounce against Millwall and Wolves.

Molineux is one of the toughest venues in the country to pick up points, and let’s not forget that Wolves had the chance to go top if they had won.

But Town, on the back of their success against Millwall, went there with a plan and exactly the right attitude – and it seems Grant Holt has made just the impact manager Chris Powell would have desired.

So often in football – and you hear this all the time when supporters are debating the game – one player can be the catalyst for making everyone else play better.

Defensively, Town have looked much better since bringing in Mark Hudson from Cardiff and, now, they have a leader of the line up front.

When you bring in a new manager, you hope they will be able to spot players around the country who can be that catalyst.

It doesn’t matter if they are from the lower divisions or, like Holt, on the fringes at a Premier League or Championship club, if your manager can spot them and then convince them to sign then he’s doing a really good job.

Town are a club that people are happy to come to. They’ve pretty much always been well run, there is a good fan base, a fine stadium and now a tremendous training complex, too, in PPG Canalside. The club have been improving in recent years as well, and they are well thought of in the game.

Sometimes players sit on a big contract and lose interest in showing what they can do. But if you sign someone with a point to prove at the right time, and your manager can motivate, then suddenly you’ve got a player and a team on your hands.

Everyone wants the ball and everyone is eager to back each other up – so maybe my pre-season bet on Town in the handicap market isn’t quite dead in the water just yet!

The Ryder Cup again showed what a fantastic sporting event it is when Europe defeated the United States at Gleneagles.

If there is a competition which highlights the difference between individual and team play – not just in golf but in sport in general – then it’s the Ryder Cup.

And with Europe 110 under par and the USA 76 under par, it shows the standard of play was just incredible.

The togetherness of the Europeans – that dressing-room mentality of ‘we’re all in this together’ – really shone through.

It was shown by all the top players going out to support their teammates on the course, while the Americans appeared to be stabbing each other in the back.

Phil Mickelson, having been reputed to have a dark side to his character earlier in his career, has for the past number of years been Mr Sweetness and Light.

But in that final press conference, he let himself down badly because there was no need whatsoever to try and hang out team captain Tom Watson to dry in terms of blame for the loss.

If you have people with that attitude in your team then it can only go one way in my opinion.

It was awful and unseemly and the captain should have been shown due respect.

Tom Watson did not deserve what happened and Mickelson’s comments have damaged the sporting ethos of golf as a whole. The kudos the game had has dropped like a stone from my point of view.