Comments on: Wolves Fined £25k For ‘Weakened’ Team Selection

By: Ründes Leder Brüserdienst 08/10 | «Zum Runden Leder»

Ründes Leder Brüserdienst 08/10 | «Zum Runden Leder» — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 12:31:42 +0000

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By: Fredmeister

Fredmeister — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 20:15:16 +0000

Agree with Ollie, this is ludicrous.

However, Id be interested as to how the quantified a full strength team. Could you make 9 changes? What about 8? A Pretty dodgy precedent has been set.

We (Man United) do stuff like this all the time and don’t get punished. I thought Mick showed a lot of balls by doing what he did, and its worked. Who knows, he took all the pressure off the team he fielded because they were expected to lose.

By: tom

tom — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 17:37:38 +0000

frank – it was weak enough for a terrible fulham team to beat you. The point is that the big teams get treated differently – ‘and thats a fact’. lol.

By: kritter

kritter — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 16:38:25 +0000

How’d you like to be a Wolves’ reserve player that finally got his got against the big guys, played decently, was proud of himself, and then finds out his team was so bad it deserved a fining according to the prem. Talk about an ego check.

By: tom

tom — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 15:45:20 +0000

Peter I know how gutted you must have felt by that. Obviously at the time I was delighted but I really was hoping that West Ham would go down not the Blades. Who, incidentally, should have been relegated retrospectively and possibly would have been if their ex-players didn’t stuff the ranks of the F.A.. Along with allowing Wimbledon to turn into a franchise letting West Ham remain in the premier league are the two biggest mistakes the F.A. has made. There have, however, been a series of non-sense decisions to come out of both the F.A. and The Premier League board and this is sadly just another in a long list.

By: frank

frank — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 15:28:58 +0000

Peter-

I’m a Liverpool fan and it was hardly a weakened side. We played two youth players and the rest were experienced first teamers We also had to rest up for a litle thingy known as the Champions League final. Stop drinking Warnock’s Kool-Aid, he’s the one that got you relegated, noone else.

By: Peter

Peter — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 14:28:33 +0000

Tom – spot one. Being a Sheffield United fan it fucking hurt. It guaranteed Fulham’s survival to compound with the West Ham disgrace. Wolves had every right to field a weakened team. Man Utd haven’t just fielded weakened teams before, THEY’VE NOT EVEN PLAYED IN THE TOURNAMENT! REMEMBER THE F.A CUP IN 2000!

Arsenal are forever fielding weak teams in the League Cup & the F.A Cup. Ultimately if the F.A had their way their would only be 5 teams in the Premier League – Man Utd, Liverpool, Chelsea, Arsenal & Man City. They hated Everton being in the Champions League so much they downgraded it by letting Liverpool in anyway. They’ll be fining Portsmouth next. A disgrace.

By: Addick Simmo

Addick Simmo — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 02:06:08 +0000

Total hypocrisy.How often do the “big four” rest players ad get away with it.Another example of the big clubs flaunting the rules and getting away with it while the lesser clubs are punished.I can’t help thinking the press should accept responsibility for blowing this story out of all preportion.

By: Delboy Dublin

Delboy Dublin — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:06:47 +0000

Wolves get punished for doing exactly what Sir Rednose of Salford does regularly in the Worthless/FArce Cups & against lesser sides in the GREATEST LEAGUE IN THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD EVER ™?

Hypocrisy of the highest order

By: AP

AP — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:02:52 +0000

Absolutely ridiculous. Remember the last game of the season last year, when United fielded their reserves against Hull? Obviously the FA won’t punish United, but a struggling side like Wolves? Give ‘em a fine to go with their precarious league table position.