Something in the (Molineux) water?

A quick glance at the top of League Two shows a heavy ex-Wolves influence among the managers striving for promotion.

Top of the pile Paul Ince's MK Dons, second in command Darren Ferguson's Peterborough and third in line Graham Turner's Hereford.

And they are just three of the ever-growing batch of former Molineux employees now plying their trade in management.

Paul Simpson has just taken residence further down League Two with Shrewsbury, while Brian Little is facing the mother of all battles to keep Wrexham in the Football League.

Move up a division and we find John Ward's Carlisle looking good in the race to reach the Championship and Stuart Gray's Northampton - of course aided and abetted by Wolves duo Mark Little and Daniel Jones - coming up on the play-off rails.

Then there's Keith Downing at the other end of the table hoping to mastermind another escape from the drop for Cheltenham, a job so far being carried out to impressive effect.

No one needs reminding that Dave Jones's Cardiff are also having a good FA Cup time of it just at the mo, so even without mentioning the fact that Doncaster boss Sean O'Driscoll is a Wolverhampton-born diehard Wolves fan I make it NINE former players or managers boasting ex-Molineux connections.

That's about ten per cent of the Football League's managers, and the Scottish clubs are also now getting in on the act.

Mark McGhee, with Motherwell, and Mixu Paatelainen, with Hibernian, are operating towards the top of the Premier Division while Alex Rae's first foray into management sees Dundee in second in Division One and just out of the cup at the quarter final stage having previously upset Motherwell in the previous round.

Can any other English club boast similar numbers among the managerial rolls?