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Stoke City manager Mark Hughes talks about the referee's decision to send off Ryan Shawcross in his side's 1-0 defeat to Tottenham Hotspur.

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SOUNDBITE (English) Mark Hughes, Stoke City coach:
(on the sending off of his captain, Ryan Shawcross, in the second half)

"He's got the flight of the balll, he's trying to get there, obviously (Danny) Rose is a quick player, has got in front of him, toed it away...it's a foul. Clearly a foul, but that's all there is. The referee (Andre Marriner) played on, initially, five, ten seconds, then brought it back and deemed it worth of a yellow card. So whether or not he felt - or had forgotten - that he'd already booked him, which for a senior referee is a little boit poor... yeah. So he should have had time to realise that it was a second yellow and to have a second yellow for that and a sending off, I think is rather harsh on Ryan and ourselves to be perfectly honest."