Intermission for McCarthy

I really intended to have a series of posts with pictures of the kids. However, I really have to have an intermission to vent about the McCarthy situation.

If you follow the English Premier League, then you will know that Wolves recently lost to Man Utd 3-0. This game was a big deal because Wolves had managed to defeat Spurs at the weekend in a great display of football but then made 10 changes to the side and effectively put out a reserve team for the game against Man Utd. Fans howled in anger! The press howled in derision. And the plonkers at the Premier League board decided to get involved.

Now, I'm not going to get involved in discussing whether McCarthy did the right thing or not. To be fair, I can understand why he did what he did. His team would have been tired after the fantastic game they had against Spurs. Realistically, asking them to put in the same level of commitment 2 days later against Man Utd which is then followed a couple of days later by a relegation clash with Burnley is a really big ask.

On the other hand, I can also understand why the fans are annoyed. They paid good money to see their club take on Man Utd and instead were treated to their teams second string players being defeated by an injury riddled Man Utd.

So as I said, I can see both sides of the story and I really don't want to get drawn into a discussion as to whether McCarthy did the right thing or not. What I did want to comment on though was - why the f&$k are the Premier League Board getting involved in this?

The manager has a squad of players for a reason - so that he doesn't have to play the same tired legs that had played just a couple of days ago (squad rotation ftw). Bear in mind that the players that were selected to play by McCarthy weren't exactly green as grass either. Other than with one exception, all of the players had played in the first team before. Furthermore, some of them were full blown internationals. Granted, they may not have been the best players in the squad, but why should that be relevant?

I mean, its not like other teams don't put our reserve sides. The obvious examples are Arsenal (who have a policy of only playing youngsters in the League Cup) and Man Utd (who only last year, fielded a team of kids at the end of the season against Hull). Quite frankly, by getting involved, the PLB are just wasting time and money.

Plonkers!