The general lowering of expectations and the devaluing of the cups while in no ways welcome, could be a help to the kids too. They can go into these away games in particular without having the added pressure of people expecting wins regardless of the opposition. If things had gone badly wrong last night nobody would have moaned too much about it. The way Shelvey took his two goals seemed very relaxed. He might not have even gambled to get in the box for the first if the pressure was on to just get a result. Even aside from his goal, I thought Wisdom was quite impressive.
