Premiership 15/16 December

[FORSTERS_RIGHT_FOOT]

It's still a bit of a disgrace, giving ManUre the 3 points on a plate.

[soggy biscuit]

ALOL @ Kenny Lunt last night!!!

What did he do?

Tried to tackle someone on the edge of the box who was going to shoot but ended up knocking the ball up in the air closer to his own goal, ball came down again and he went in for a second attempt to clear it and booted it into his own goal.

Ended up looking like the first one was just teeing it up nicely for the deadly finish

[Ian Royal]

Why should Wolves get treated any differently to United or Fulham? They've played obviously weakened teams in the Premier League without any come back.

[Thaumagurist*]

Or even Portsmouth.

[T.R.O.L.I.]

IIRC, didn't Warnock do the same when Sheff Utd played at OT in 07/08? Don't think Sheff Utd got punished for that so I can't see it happening to Wolves.

[AF2]

Why should Wolves get treated any differently to United or Fulham? They've played obviously weakened teams in the Premier League without any come back.

dont see wat the problem is tbh, PL football is a squad game and the manager is entitled to pick who he likes from his squad, how is it even definable for the FA or anyone else to say who is and who isn't a teams first choice striker or centre back

If Man Yoo pick were to pick Welbeck for say Wigan @ home on a saturday and leave Berbatov on the bench ahead of a mid week CL game no one would say shit. I dont really see the difference.

[cmonurz]

Why should Wolves get treated any differently to United or Fulham? They've played obviously weakened teams in the Premier League without any come back.

dont see wat the problem is tbh, PL football is a squad game and the manager is entitled to pick who he likes from his squad, how is it even definable for the FA or anyone else to say who is and who isn't a teams first choice striker or centre back

If Man Yoo pick were to pick Welbeck for say Wigan @ home on a saturday and leave Berbatov on the bench ahead of a mid week CL game no one would say shit. I dont really see the difference.

^^^ This, from the perspective of the governing body. Wolves shouldn't really have a case to answer.

On the flip side, those who really know who the first-team are are the fans, and 3,000 can rightly be a bit peeved that they went to OT for a game that their club apparently had no intention of trying to win.

[No Fixed Abode]

Chelsea 2 - 1 Portsmouth

[LUX]

I dislike Portsmouth so much I actually wanted Chelsea to win this. Although I do like Avram Grant.

[Thaumagurist*]

Why should Wolves get treated any differently to United or Fulham? They've played obviously weakened teams in the Premier League without any come back.

dont see wat the problem is tbh, PL football is a squad game and the manager is entitled to pick who he likes from his squad, how is it even definable for the FA or anyone else to say who is and who isn't a teams first choice striker or centre back

If Man Yoo pick were to pick Welbeck for say Wigan @ home on a saturday and leave Berbatov on the bench ahead of a mid week CL game no one would say shit. I dont really see the difference.

Except that Wolves don't play in the CL.

[1960]

An aspect of the Wolves thing which I haven't seen mentioned is the fixture list. They typically set up fixtures as A H H A A H H A and so on. This is presumably so that no one team is having to play catch up all the time - half the teams have a chance of getting the home points in the bag during the first part of the cycle, whilst the other half get the advantage in the next part.

This seems eminently fair if we are talking Saturday games, but bizarrely this has happened in December in midweek. Every team that played away on Saturday/Sunday had to play away again Tuesday/Wednesday (Europa Cup-affected fixtures excepted). Take Arsenal - a frenetic and energy-sapping game at Liverpool, then back home and a couple of days later up to bloody Lancashire again. Totally unfair in my opinion.

Wolves had the same. To London on Saturday to play 87 minutes with backs to the wall, then to OT a couple of days later with the prospect of totally shagging themselves out before an important winnable game. Wolves may be guilty, but his motives were understandable.

[Row Z Royal]

Why should Wolves get treated any differently to United or Fulham? They've played obviously weakened teams in the Premier League without any come back.

dont see wat the problem is tbh, PL football is a squad game and the manager is entitled to pick who he likes from his squad, how is it even definable for the FA or anyone else to say who is and who isn't a teams first choice striker or centre back

If Man Yoo pick were to pick Welbeck for say Wigan @ home on a saturday and leave Berbatov on the bench ahead of a mid week CL game no one would say shit. I dont really see the difference.

Except that Wolves don't play in the CL.

What has that got to do with it? Sapping weekend win and a relegation battle on the following weekend - Man Utd midweek is not the top priority.