The Premier League fined relegation threatened Wolverhampton Wanderers for being totally crap when they lost 3-0 to Manchester United last December.
Manager Mick McCarthy defended his team selection by saying that he picked a team that was in the best position to get a result but accepted that at the end of the day, the team he managed were crap no matter which eleven players he chose to start the game with.
Believing he had no chance of beating Manchester Utd, because his team were crap, he chose to rest some of his crap first team players and replace them with even crappier reserve and youth team players instead.
His decision paid off the following week when his crap side defeated Burnley, another crap side, because his crap players were fresher than the crap eleven that the Burnley manager, Owen Coyle chose to field.
The Premier League is a crap league, made up of teams who like to think they aren't crap, but are crap, teams who know they are crap and teams who aspire just to be crap. The objective is to be less crap than all the other crap sides or pay the ultimate penalty of being relegated to the Championship, a whole new level of crap.
In taking the step to fine one of its member teams for being crap, the Premier League hopes that its competition will be less crap in the future.
A Wolves fan told us, 'Yeah we're crap, we have been for years. We don't expect to beat teams like Manchester Utd or Chelsea but we can always live in hope. We spend years trying to beat teams like Scunthorpe and Peterboro in the hope that one day we will play the best teams in England. Then when we do play them the manager lets all the supporters down by fielding the crappiest team possible, just so we might have a chance of beating another crap team the following week who we'll probably end up playing in the Championship again next season anyway. What kind of a crap competition is that?'
