One drama’s enough for Karl Henry
Tuesday 24th May 2011, 2:30PM BST.
It was Wolves’ most glorious defeat and the most dramatic day in Premier League history.
But captain Karl Henry admits he doesn’t want to experience another Survival Sunday after Wolves stayed up despite losing 3-2 to Blackburn.
Sky Sports lapped it up – it was the perfect edge-of-your-seat drama – but with the bottom three changing 14 times during those 90-odd, tension-packed minutes, Henry isn’t keen on going through such an emotional afternoon again.
The 28-year-old skipper said: “I certainly wouldn’t want to be involved in one of those Survival Sundays as long as I carry on my playing career.
“It’s been an emotional rollercoaster, not just the last few weeks but the whole season, and Sunday was just unbelievable.
“We always seem to do it the hard way and I’m sure at half-time everyone was fearing the worst.
“We fought back in the second-half though and managed to get a couple of goals back.
“We knew we needed to take care of our own result and a two-goal deficit or worse would put us in trouble.
“We wanted to keep the back door shut and attack with caution and yet we ended up coming in at half-time 3-0 down.”
Henry admitted Wolves’ world was caving in at half-time as they trailed 3-0.
He said: “Blackburn did play well but we were shell-shocked and our world was falling apart by that stage. The last 20 minutes was so tense.
“We could hear the crowd cheering and then not cheering and we knew we needed a goal or then we needed to hold what we had.”
Like the fans who have willed Wolves on at every turn in this dramatic campaign, Henry also admitted he couldn’t bear a return to the Championship.
He said: “No disrespect to the Championship – it’s a tough league with some good teams – but this is where we wanted to stay.
“There’s never a guarantee if you go down, you come straight back up and we’ve seen so many good teams go down and it’s not happened for them.”
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