Alastair Campbell Summarises The Wolverhampton Game

His thighs must have been sore too, so often had he slapped them in frustration as yet another cross whizzed across goal, met by nobody.

And when Steven Fletcher did connect with a Wade Elliott cross, he misfired, and the look on his face as the ball spun well wide suggested he knew it was not going to be Burnley's day.

By then Wolves were two up, and McCarthy's decision to rest ten outfield players in the 3-0 defeat at Manchester United last Tuesday was looking more than justified. In the match programme both McCarthy and Wolves chief executive Jez Moxey had defended the resting-rotation policy as being in the best interests of the club. Clearly feeling a bit defensive about it, and worried about the hammering McCarthy would get if his plan backfired, both went all scientific on us.

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