Official 2011/12 Barclays Premier League Thread
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It was in the 90s, but not a semi-final either.
It also featured a contender for greatest penalty ever taken - scored by the losing team's goalkeeper...
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It was indeed an FA Cup, 4th round replay in February 1995 at Molineux. The game went to penalties after extra time.
Mark Bright scored for Wednesday, then Thompson hit the bar. Guy Whittingham scored for Wednesday and Kevin Pressman saved the next. Pressman took the next penalty and, in the words of Andy Gray, "you could have two goalkeepers in there and they'd have trouble saving that.". 3-0 up after five.
Then it went wrong. Wolves scored, Wednesday hit the bar. Wolves scored and Chris Bart-Williams put a weak effort down the middle. Wolves scored to make it 3-3 and sudden death.
Who stepped up next? Chris Waddle... He got it on target this time, but it was saved. Don Goodman scored the Wolves penalty and that was that.
So Wednesday are, as far as I'm aware, the only team in history to ever lose a penalty shoot-out from 3-0 up, and Wolves the only team to win one from 3-0 down!
1'30 - the greatest penalty ever taken?
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We're only 3rd by virtue of playing more games. We're potentially fifth. We're fifteen points behind the leaders, we're five points and a game behind the Pigs, our goal difference is a joke compared to the rest of the top five, we've had a run of four successive defeats including away at nearly-bottom Chesterfield and at home, 1-0, to Stevenage - which is one of the five most embarrassing results in the club's history (another being losing 5-1 away at Stevenage this season) - and Megson doesn't seem to have a clue how to fix it. We have a very good squad for this division - assembled at eight times the cost of Charlton's - and we shouldn't be a play-off team. They shouldn't be playing route one, 🤬-kicking football.
I said when he took over that he didn't have a clue. Every time we lose he berates the players in the press. It would have made sense to sack him when we failed to get through the play-offs, but Mandaric clearly wants to rescue the season with just about a third of it left and get us up through automatic promotion - whether we don't go up with Megson or don't go up without him isn't important and it's no risk to try and get someone who can get us there.
I'm hoping for Roland Nilsson again
Or John Sheridan.
I said when he took over that he didn't have a clue. Every time we lose he berates the players in the press. It would have made sense to sack him when we failed to get through the play-offs, but Mandaric clearly wants to rescue the season with just about a third of it left and get us up through automatic promotion - whether we don't go up with Megson or don't go up without him isn't important and it's no risk to try and get someone who can get us there.
I'm hoping for Roland Nilsson again
Or John Sheridan.
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I might stop supporting Wednesday if we hire Warnock. As for Dave Jones... is it too much to ask to have a manager who isn't a dour gloomhound?
Roland Nilsson won the Swedish league with Malmo in 2010 and was Sweden's manager of the year that year. He had Copenhagen top of the Danish league when he was sacked in January to be replaced with the club's director of football. He's free, he's good and he's Wednesday.
Roland Nilsson won the Swedish league with Malmo in 2010 and was Sweden's manager of the year that year. He had Copenhagen top of the Danish league when he was sacked in January to be replaced with the club's director of football. He's free, he's good and he's Wednesday.
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Darren Purse backs Dave Jones for the job. I rate him as being a reasonably competent manager, if not a massive sourpuss.
Lee Clark's name has also been carelessly thrown about. Being a former Huddersfield man would be held against him. Even though he seems to be one of the more promising young managers.
Lee Clark's name has also been carelessly thrown about. Being a former Huddersfield man would be held against him. Even though he seems to be one of the more promising young managers.
