Blackpool manager Ian Holloway believes he was right to tender his resignation, with a Premier League fine still rankling.
The Seasiders boss offered to quit his post on Friday after being informed that the club had been punished for fielding an under-strength side.
The authorities felt Holloway's decision to make sweeping changes to his starting XI for a fixture away at Aston Villa in November was in breach of top flight rules.
As a result they fined Blackpool £25,000, echoing the punishment handed out to Wolves last season after they altered their side for a trip to Manchester United.
Holloway claimed at the time that if his decision was questioned he was prepared to walk away from Bloomfield Road.
He has followed up on that threat, but Blackpool have no intention of allowing the man who guided them to the Premier League to head for the exits.
Holloway is prepared to accept that decision and remains in his post, but admits he is still at a loss to explain why he has been put in this position.
"I said I would resign if I got fined and that is what I did on Friday," he wrote in his Independent on Sunday column.
"I offered my resignation to my chairman Karl Oyston because that is how strongly I feel. He says he won't accept it and that's up to him.
"But what is going on? I don't know who I am working for - the Premier League or my club.
"Everyone keeps talking about how Wolves were fined last season for doing the same thing, but that is not the same scenario. We weren't playing Manchester United away. We were playing Aston Villa on a Wednesday, when we had already had three or four games in a short space of time before it.
"When Wolves made their changes, there was no 25-man rule. You did not have to put 25 players specifically over the age of 22 in your squad.
"So surely that throws up a problem because if they fine you for picking a certain team, they are saying a bloke they have allowed you to put in your squad, as the rules say, isn't good enough. And if that's the case, 10 of my 25 wouldn't have been good enough. In whose judgement?
"I'd like to know who is actually telling me we are fined. Who is it? Is there a committee of them? And if so, why didn't they sit me down in front of them and I'd have explained it all. What is wrong with them? Who are they at to tell me what my team is? I am absolutely fuming."
