What people seem to forget is that the United reserve xi or strictly the pool of 25 players could proberbly beat the lower half teams of the premier league quite easily
Thats true, I would back Utd reserves to beat Blackpool.
But my post is about double standards. They’re obliged to play something close to their best team by the Prem League rules. Wolves and Blackpool have been done on these rules. Its not good enough to say your reserves are a better team than most because you’ve got lots of cash. As I said originally, there’d have been uproar from Chelsea if Bruce had played our reserves against Utd on the last day a couple of years ago. Bruce would have been locked up by the Premier League cos we’re only little Wigan. Only the big clubs are allowed to take the p*ss out of the other teams and the league.