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Henry defends all-action Wolves style

Wolves captain Karl Henry has defended his team's all-action style.

The 27-year-old came under intense scrutiny earlier this season when his tackle broke the leg of Fulham and England striker Bobby Zamora.

Henry was only booked for the challenge and plenty of judges felt it was a case of bad timing rather than malice.

But it is that, along with a full-blooded encounter with Newcastle and a challenge on Wigan's Jordi Gomez that drew a straight red card, which led to much criticism of both Henry and Wolves - something which the former Stoke player took to heart.

He told BBC Radio 5 Live: "I've doubted myself. I put on a game from about seven years ago. We played Nottingham Forest at Stoke and I put in plenty of tackles that day.

"I just wanted to check that my game has not altered. And my game hasn't altered at all - I've always put in lots of tackles, it's the way I've played and nothing's changed.

"In the Championship you see tackle after tackle and there's no problem with it.

"At this level there seems to be a problem with slightly mistimed tackles.

"The pace of the game is something that's a massive point. Players are so fast and so strong.

"People are so big, powerful and strong. Something that's slightly mistimed ends up with someone doing a flip and it looks so bad.

"It almost looks malicious and that's not the case a lot of the time.

"People have got to look past someone being flipped in the air or someone not winning the ball and see was it deliberate? Was it malicious? And a lot of the time it isn't."

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