Alastair Campbell Summarises The Wolverhampton Game

Now, on the TV by the window, Burnley manager Brian Laws comes on to give his reaction to the match. The hubbub gets quieter as we strain to hear what Brian has to say. Managers tend to accentuate the positive, and he was certainly doing that. We created a lot of chances. We hit a bar and a post. Even when we went two down, we never gave up, and the goal we pulled back led to a concerted period of pressure and we might have got another. Oh, and if the referee had been in the right position we would have had a penalty (which, as Graham Alexander was on the pitch, we would have scored).

All that was true and it is part of a manager's job to keep spirits up. But the smile crossing his face as he spoke was in very stark contrast to the looks on the watching faces. These were not looks of hostility, but they were people questioning whether we really have what it takes to climb out of trouble.

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