Sheffield Wednesday (H) 2000/01

Sunday 13 August at Molineux (Att 19,086)

Wolves (1) 1 (Ketsbaia 18): Oakes, Muscat, Naylor, Pollet, Lescott, Bazeley, Emblen, Osborn, Sinton, Ketsbaia, Branch; Subs Murray, Robinson, Sedgley, S Taylor, Camara.
Sheffield Wednesday (0) 1 (Booth 79): Pressman, Haslam, Hinchcliffe (Sibon 65), Jonk, Grayson, Walker, Quinn, Booth, de Bilde (di Piedi 60), Cresswell (Stringer 1), Westwood; Subs Hamshaw, Humphreys.

Referee: Mr M Halsey (Welwyn Garden City).
Sent-off: Pressman 13 secs (deliberate handball).
Booked: Booth 27, de Bilde 33, Quinn 36, Grayson 41, Jonk 81, Sinton 85.
Record: Kevin Pressman’s sending-off is the quickest in English football history.
Landmark: Neil Emblen makes his 200th League appearance. Joleon Lescott makes his League bow and Temuri Ketsbaia makes his Wolves debut following his transfer from Newcastle United. Simon Grayson on loan from Blackburn and Ashley Westwood on loan from Bradford make their Wednesday’s debuts. 17 year old goalkeeper Chris Stringer also made his League debut in replacing Kevin Pressman.
Substitute: Colin Lee was going to name Frank Talia as Wolves goal keeping sub until a member of the Sky Sports research team informed Wolves that the Australian was carry a one match suspension from his Swindon Town days.
Royalty: Amongst the crowd was Saudi Arabia’s Prince Khaled who was overseeing the transfer of Sami Al-Jabar.
Position: 9th.