Fulham promised a footballing lesson
Friday 22nd April 2011, 12:30PM BST.
Wolves today vowed to give Fulham a footballing lesson and hand themselves a survival shot in the arm tomorrow.
Mark Hughes’ side visit Molineux for the first time since Wolves had seven players booked and Christophe Berra sent off in the 2-1 defeat at Craven Cottage in September.
Bobby Zamora also broke his leg in a challenge with Karl Henry, while Fulham midfielder Steve Sidwell faces the side he rejected in January for the first time since breaking Adlene Guedioura’s leg playing for Villa.
Those incidents prompted Fulham midfielder Danny Murphy to declare Wolves as one of three teams ‘too pumped up’ with Stoke and Blackburn.
But with no-one in the top 20 of most-booked players, Mick McCarthy’s side have long since silenced the critics.
“We were being branded a dirty team, but if you look at the disciplinary tables, we’re nowhere being that,” said defender Richard Stearman.
“Now it’s calmed down, people can see we’re much more than a physical, dirty team and hopefully Fulham will see that.
“Hopefully we’ll put on a right show for them and they’ll see we’re a footballing team. We’re not there to be a dirty team — that was just blown out of all proportion.
“It was just a couple of games and we got so much media attention from it.”
Stearman added: “It’s horrible for anyone to have any injury, but especially a broken leg. Having seen the replays at the time though, it was a fair tackle. It’s great to see Bobby Zamora back playing and scoring goals.”
And Stearman is confident there won’t be any fall-out tomorrow. “We’re just going to play the game,” he said.
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