The weekend in tweets - Black Country derby special

Following Sunday's Black Country derby win for West Brom, players from both sides took to Twitter to share their thoughts with the fans. Todd Nash shares the best of them:

Albion players wasted no time in taking to Twitter after the game and after the winger compared Peter Odemwingie to Torres and Carroll last week - and not in a complimentary way - Jerome Thomas wasted no time in claiming the credit for his return to goalscoring form. It's the banter wot won it.

Swedish defender Jonas Olsson joined the praise for the Nigerian striker with the hat-trick hero thanked his teammate in return for the cheeky back-heeled assist that set up his second and Albion's third of the game in what he described as an "unforgettable victory."

Having apologised to his teammates on Twitter last week after playing his "worst game ever" after losing at home to Swansea, Mulumbu posed with Odemwingie, Fortune and the man of the match champagne stating that a good player never plays badly twice in a row.

Former Swindon striker Simon Cox was delighted for the fans after helping to win them the Black Country bragging rights in a game that, he said, Albion dominated for the full 90 minutes and fully deserved to win.

After his manager had apologised for the performance, midfielder Jamie O'Hara was the first Wolves player to stick his head above the parapet and say sorry to the fans too. The plea to "keep the faith" fell on deaf ears though – instead his tweet was met with a chorus of abuse from angry supporters.

But despite the result, former Wolves goalkeeper Matt Murray threw his weight behind manager Mick McCarthy, praising him for not hiding after the game and the job that he has done in his long reign at the club.

The combative midfielder clearly found it difficult watching his former side capitulate from the sidelines having been forced to return to parent club Arsenal with a serious knee injury and, at the final whistle, summed up the feelings of Wolves fans in a word – devastated.