Muscat: We must stop Wolves
By Stephen 18
January 20 2005
Millwall skipper Kevin Muscat is looking forward to playing his former club Wolves on Saturday. By failing to defeat Wolves in the FA Cup, the Lions missed out on a lucrative trip to Highbury to face Arsenal. Now it's payback time!
By Stephen 18
January 20 2005
Millwall skipper Kevin Muscat is looking forward to playing his former club Wolves on Saturday. By failing to defeat Wolves in the FA Cup, the Lions missed out on a lucrative trip to Highbury to face Arsenal. Now it's payback time!
Kevin Muscat has warned Millwall that he will accept no excuses if the club fails to make it into the play offs this season.
The Lions skipper laid down the law to his teammates after the combination of the cup run, injuries and suspensions put paid to last term's promotion hopes.
But the right back believes this was not a valid reason for last season's late collapse, and insists that there will be even less excuse at being ousted from the top six this time around.
Muscat said: "There's nothing about the place that you can use as an excuse because that's all you do. If you have a cup run you can use it as an excuse.
"I don't think we did last year but the amount of games and the amount of injuries we had cost us, but this was not an excuse for our league form. It was just not good enough.
"This time we have got ourselves in a decent position. We have got there a couple of times and not pushed on, but now we have to push on and put ourselves in a good position."
Muscat, who missed the end of last season with a knee injury he picked up in the FA Cup semi final, comes up against his former club Wolves this Saturday, for the first time since leaving Molineux in August 2003.
He added: "When we were struggling a couple of weeks ago with a couple of players injured, Peter Sweeney had an opportunity and did really well, and unfortunately he is now injured.
"But it's about taking opportunities when you get one. This week's game is a massive one for us.
"I was very disappointed to miss both the games [through injury]. It would've been the first time I'd have been back there, but it wasn't to be.
"Wolves are trying to put a little bit of a run together because they have an outside chance of the play offs. We want to stop them in their tracks and push on ourselves."
The Lions skipper laid down the law to his teammates after the combination of the cup run, injuries and suspensions put paid to last term's promotion hopes.
But the right back believes this was not a valid reason for last season's late collapse, and insists that there will be even less excuse at being ousted from the top six this time around.
Muscat said: "There's nothing about the place that you can use as an excuse because that's all you do. If you have a cup run you can use it as an excuse.
"I don't think we did last year but the amount of games and the amount of injuries we had cost us, but this was not an excuse for our league form. It was just not good enough.
"This time we have got ourselves in a decent position. We have got there a couple of times and not pushed on, but now we have to push on and put ourselves in a good position."
Muscat, who missed the end of last season with a knee injury he picked up in the FA Cup semi final, comes up against his former club Wolves this Saturday, for the first time since leaving Molineux in August 2003.
He added: "When we were struggling a couple of weeks ago with a couple of players injured, Peter Sweeney had an opportunity and did really well, and unfortunately he is now injured.
"But it's about taking opportunities when you get one. This week's game is a massive one for us.
"I was very disappointed to miss both the games [through injury]. It would've been the first time I'd have been back there, but it wasn't to be.
"Wolves are trying to put a little bit of a run together because they have an outside chance of the play offs. We want to stop them in their tracks and push on ourselves."
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