Preston North End 2 Wolverhampton Wanderers 2

With every draw and every lost two points, the chances of Wolverhampton Wanderers playing Championship football again next season increase.

Yet if Glenn Hoddle's men can keep going over the final nine obstacles of this marathon 46-match season in the same indefatigable manner they showed during this encounter, then the game's not up yet.

A fortnight ago, after the latest in a succession of miserable home draws against Watford, Wolves were ominously faced with three away games.

One of them they won, 4-1 at Crewe Alexandra. The other two, both against teams in the top six, they have drawn. Two highly entertaining draws too, which they might so easily have won.

Not a bad 11 days' work: nine goals scored; countless fans entertained. But sadly only five points.

Inspiring though the football has been (an extraordinary contrast to the dross that came before), it's still not enough. Wolves actually ended up going down a place on Saturday, and are now ten points off the play-off places. But their refusal to give up sustains hope.

Saturday's point was the 14th time this season that they have come from behind to claim a draw. Add to that the five wins achieved after falling behind and the evidence proves that this is not a team of quitters.

However, on a day when Wolves could so easily have been buried by high-flying Preston North End, there was more of a case for saying this was one point gained rather than two lost.

Hoddle had hinted before the off that he thought North End might be due a slip-up. But, fuelled by the confidence boost of Wolves' generous defending in the home side's first meaningful attack, it was clearly never going to be.

Richard Cresswell, left unattended in the six-yard box, headed home following an Eddie Lewis short corner routine. Yet, to their great credit, Wolves bounced back quickly.

Neat work by Carl Cort and Seol earned Wolves a free-kick just outside the North End box, allowing Jody Craddock to tuck in Lee Naylor's set piece.

From that moment on, for all Wolves' pace and neat football on the counter, Michael Oakes was kept by far the busier of the keepers.

Preston's dominance finally brought its reward when Lewis went over Joleon Lescott's outstretched leg in the box and the Championship's acknowledged penalty king Graham Alexander (who now has almost 50 of them to his name for North End) smashed it straight down the middle.

David Nugent twice might have made it safe for the home team before the miss of the game from Miller.

Seol ran from his own half to stretch the home defence and kept his composure to square for Miller in yards of space.

The Scottish international striker had time to take a second touch but, with only Day to beat, blasted his left-foot shot against the bar. And when the ball returned to him he blazed the rebound over.

Miller and Cort - six goals between them in their previous two games - wasted two more good chances. But then up stepped Seol to save Wolves' bacon, not for the first time, when he squeezed his left-foot snap shot from 20 yards just inside Day's right post.

As one expects these days, Wolves put their foot on the accelerator looking to win the game, rather than merely settling for a point. But, for once, they had to be happy with this share of the spoils.

On the minus side was Birmingham referee Andre Marriner's harsh decision to award skipper Paul Ince a sixth yellow card of the season for what was no more than an aggressive aerial clash with the smallest player on the field, Paul McKenna.

To counter that, Marriner was remarkably lenient of Miller.

Quite apart from the fact that the moaning Miller's almost constant whining to the referee throughout every game makes him a candidate for the title of the 'most miserable footballer in England', his challenge on home centre-half Chris Lucketti was a shocker.

He might be the club's record signing and scored more goals than any Wolves player since Steve Bull but, given the verbal abuse he levels at officials, he could do with a few deportment lessons.

And perhaps most importantly of all, he needs to be taught how to tackle.

This was the second week running that Miller has jumped into a two-footed challenge. And, on each occasion, he has been lucky to escape with only a yellow card, especially when he followed up with another choice verbal tirade at the referee and Lucketti.

Maybe it will be just as well if Wolves don't go up. The scrutiny of Premiership cameras wouldn't allow Miller such lenience.