Soccer: Hiding from Wolves and mixing with minnows

I OWE you an apology for lying on Christmas Eve. When I said that not even the current Liverpool could be scared of Wolves, I was being slightly premature.

Soccer: Hiding from Wolves and mixing with minnows
Wed, 07 Jan, 2004 - 00:00
Steven Kelly

No less a person than Ian Rush wrote, in his Liverpool Echo column, that the postponement was "a blessing for us."

It seems shameful to me that one of the world's biggest clubs can have anxiety attacks about playing anybody, but Wolves?!?

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