1 week Ago By Alan Tyers
and are also in action this afternoon, as it happens. Good afternoon, hope you’re having a superb Sunday, restful or fun-filled as per your preference, or possibly even both. You join us for our live blog of Wolverhampton Wanderers vs Manchester City, it’s second bottom against second top and obviously on paper/pools panel, you’d have this as an away win.
But we shall see. City are on 17 points. Liverpool, who play later, are on 18.
Arsenal slipped up yesterday and are on 17. This all means that City can go briefly top with a win. Their hosts are right down the other end, a wretched one point from 7 games and level on doal difference with bottom club Southampton.
Their manager, Gary O’Neil, has mounted a fighting defence against criticism. “We’re good enough to stay in the league. We will stay in the league,” he said.
“We need to get it going and we need to turn it around quickly so people stop asking me that question sooner rather than later. “I’m not going to say, ‘no’. And if I say, ‘yes’ people will say, ‘come on, then, you’ve got one point’.
“So it’s a tough question, but hopefully we can pick up a couple of wins and then people can stop asking me.” “I want to carry the can. It is my responsibility.
It’s on me,” he said. “There is an understanding outside of here as to the situation around the football club. I think that everyone knows.
“You can look at what we’ve sold and what we’ve signed and how much has gone either way. It’s all there to see. “But that doesn’t mean that we can’t be competitive and it doesn’t mean that I just get a free ride and say, ‘not my fault’.
“I’ll give absolutely everything to help the team and to help the club and then when someone says to me, ‘you know what, we don’t think it’s good enough, you’re going to move on’, then I can say, ‘no problem, I’ve given you absolutely everything, I hope you do well’. “But that’s not how it’s going to end here. We’re going to turn this around.
“The players are going to give absolutely everything and we’re going to show everybody what a good team we are and that this start to the season has just been a slight shortfall against really good sides.”.
