Source: PA
McCarthy rues late lapses
Wolves boss Mick McCarthy was angry both with his players for throwing away their lead and with referee Mike Jones for failing to award the visitors a first-half penalty in the 3-1 defeat at Tottenham.
Steven Fletcher put Wolves in front and they looked set to hold on for a fine away win until late goals from Rafael van der Vaart, Roman Pavlyuchenko and Alan Hutton consigned them to defeat.
"We've contrived to give that away, I think, to be honest with you," McCarthy said. "We were certainly the architects of our own downfall by allowing them to open us up and then get the penalty."
McCarthy refused to expand on the mistakes that let Tottenham back into the game.
"I know exactly what they are but I'm not going to air them here, because I'll protect my own players," he said. "It'll be said in house - it's already been said. But I'm not going to have a go at my own players, that's for sure. They were fabulous for most of the game. But it's the fine detail."
On the incident that saw Matt Jarvis go down in the box under a challenge from William Gallas, McCarthy added: "I thought it was a stonewall penalty. Theirs was a stonewall. I doubt very much he (Jones) wasn't going to give that one."
