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Hughes backs Moses over dive controversy

Monday, October 20 2014 by SNTV
  • Intro:

    Stoke City manager Mark Hughes doesn't believe Victor Moses dived during his side's 2-1 victory over Swansea City.

    Script:

    SOUNDBITE: Mark Hughes, Stoke City manager:

    "He's (Garry Monk) disappointed, obviously, but the longer you're in this game the more experience you get and sometimes you have to curb what you really feel and maybe this is an occasion that he needs to learn from."

    SOUNDBITE: Mark Hughes, Stoke City manager:

    "No, I don't think he (Victor Moses) dived, I think he felt contact, I think he was running at pace in between two defenders and I think the onus is on the defender not to go anywhere near him, because if you put an arm across a player running at pace then the likelihood is that he'll be knocked out of his stride and he'll go down. And I think, if you look at the angle I've seen, and I think it's the angle that the referee saw, there's a definite movement from (Angel) Rangel, with his arm to go across Victor, to knock him off his stride. So in my view that's trying to impede him and if you do that in the box when somebody's running at pace you're at danger of conceding penalties and that's what happened."

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