psy93
09-05-2007, 03:41 PM
article by Paul Hayward, in todays Daily Mail
Fulham avoided demotion from the Premiership because liverpool reached the Champions League Final.Forget the Carlos tevez Imbroglio for a minute and consider how Chelsea's poorer neighbours scrambled to the 39 points, which was enough to keep them up, once Charlton had lost to Spurs on Monday night.
Four days after liverpool had made it to Athens they decided the first team could do with a rest and sent out the reserves at Craven Cottage. their team was; reina, insua, hyypia, paletta, arbeloa, gonzalez, alonso, sissoko, pennant, bellamy and fowler. Absent were finnan, carragher, agger, riise, gerrard, crouch, kuyt, mascherano, zenden, all of whom turned out against Chelsea in the semi-final.
Rafa Benitez will say he was within his rights to field a heavily weakened team, even though his next game-at home against Charlton this Sunday-was eight days away.
Fulham won 1-0: their first victory in 11 outings. here, surely, is a case of a big(snigger*)club materially affectingthe outcome of a relegation struggle by prioritising a champions League Final that was still 21 days away. And nobody outside Wigan or Sheffield says a word.
*not in original quote!
Fulham avoided demotion from the Premiership because liverpool reached the Champions League Final.Forget the Carlos tevez Imbroglio for a minute and consider how Chelsea's poorer neighbours scrambled to the 39 points, which was enough to keep them up, once Charlton had lost to Spurs on Monday night.
Four days after liverpool had made it to Athens they decided the first team could do with a rest and sent out the reserves at Craven Cottage. their team was; reina, insua, hyypia, paletta, arbeloa, gonzalez, alonso, sissoko, pennant, bellamy and fowler. Absent were finnan, carragher, agger, riise, gerrard, crouch, kuyt, mascherano, zenden, all of whom turned out against Chelsea in the semi-final.
Rafa Benitez will say he was within his rights to field a heavily weakened team, even though his next game-at home against Charlton this Sunday-was eight days away.
Fulham won 1-0: their first victory in 11 outings. here, surely, is a case of a big(snigger*)club materially affectingthe outcome of a relegation struggle by prioritising a champions League Final that was still 21 days away. And nobody outside Wigan or Sheffield says a word.
*not in original quote!