We have to stick together, back the team and cheer them on,” he said.Hoddle, given a rolling one-year contract last summer after taking the reins the previous December, has come under fire from supporters. During the recent defeat at Leicester City, they chanted: “Hoddle for England” and “Hoddle for Leicester”.* Stockport scrapped plans to allow women free admission to last night’s League Two match against Rochdale after fears they could be breaching the Sex Discrimination Act. Club director Dan Levy felt he had no option but to withdraw the Valentine’s Day offer following complaints.”We had one or two comments,” he said “The law is the law and we have to keep it. Those results have seen the club drift to the very fringes of the play-off race, with relations between Hoddle, the former Chelsea, Southampton and Tottenham coach, and the board said to have cooled significantly.
And, amid shades of Molineux boardroom missives of the past, Sir Jack Hayward’s youngest son said: “I don’t like to criticise the players or the manager but we are frustrated and disappointed with how we are doing The fans are annoyed and perhaps quite rightly On paper, we have a great squad. Before last night’s game at Burnley, Wolves had totalled just two points and one goal from three successive Championship games against teams in the bottom three. The Wolverhampton Wanderers chairman, Rick Hayward, has warned his manager Glenn Hoddle that he is “frustrated and disappointed” by the team’s slide over recent weeks.

Blake levelled from a penalty conceded at a cost by the on-loan Manchester United keeper and confirmed the end of Watford’s six-match winning Championship run by crashing home Richard Cresswell’s centre nine minutes from time. Even then, the nine men threatened an equaliser and left their Leeds-groomed manager, Adrian Boothroyd, saying: “I have some big-hearted men and this is a minor setback.. Trailing to Ashley Young’s wonderful free-kick just before half-time, Leeds won a riveting contest through Robbie Blake’s double as the visitors lost Ben Foster and Darius Henderson. Two Watford sendings-off in four minutes around the hour helped Leeds United to dramatically leapfrog them into third place.

For their part, the visitors, with Gary Waddock in his second game as caretaker manager, suffered his first defeat.. That fine form has helped the south Londoners not only to push into the play-off places but emerge with a healthy points margin between themselves and Cardiff, who lie just outside the top six. On Valentine’s night, this win for Crystal Palace ended with more of a whimper than a bang, although given the extent to which the Eagles’ playing resources are stretched, Iain Dowie was not about to complain about extending his side’s run to just one defeat in their past 11 games. Two goals ahead and apparently cruising towards victory after 25 minutes, Luton were left clinging on for a desperate point after Dave Jones’s Cardiff City roared back to life in the second half.. The award of the kick by the referee, Mark Halsey, sparked mayhem on the home bench, where the Sheffield United manager, Neil Warnock, feared that circumstances were conspiring against him in Reading’s favour for a second time this season.. Mike Newell’s hopes of guiding his entertaining, but infuriatingly inconsistent team into the play-offs suffered another setback in a vivid but ultimately ugly goal feast at Kenilworth Road last night.

Second versus first fell short of producing a classic Championship encounter at Bramall Lane last night but generated no shortage of high-octane tension as the leaders passed up the opportunity to extend their lead when Dave Kitson failed to convert a last-minute penalty. Allardyce said: “They filled him with painkillers and we might have to pay the price.”Jay-Jay Okocha is set to return with Hidetoshi Nakata suspended.. Diouf suffered the injury while on African Nations’ Cup duty with Senegal and Jared Borgetti is standing by. We have shown we can maintain good results with a small squad.”The striker El-Hadji Diouf looks set to sit out the game and could be facing a hernia operation. But we are undefeated in that time and playing at the Reebok That should really encourage us The team has been galvanised by the criticism we have taken.

A Champions’ League spot is still a possibility and there is an FA Cup fifth-round tie against West Ham United to look forward to on Saturday.Allardyce said: “The lads have been magnificent over the last six weeks Unfortunately they haven’t got the results they deserved. They are unbeaten since the turn of the year and almost invincible at home, suffering just one League defeat against Everton in August.They have continued to prove difficult to beat despite losing players to the African Nations’ Cup and injuries to a number of key men like Gary Speed and Ivan Campo. He added: “I know it is difficult financially but we could make history this season You can’t get a ticket for the game in Marseilles. What is the point, though, of going there if we have lost 3-0 We might not lose like that if the fans turn up in numbers.