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FA 'difficult to understand' - Hughes

Saturday, November 22 2014 by SNTV
  • Intro:

    Stoke manager Mark Hughes reacts to the Football Association's charge against Stoke chairman Peter Coates for using the term "bias". Hughes was speaking ahead of his side's Premier League match against Burnley.

    Script:

    SOUNDBITE: (English) Mark Hughes, Stoke City Manager:

    (on Football Association charging Stoke chairman Peter Coates over his use of the term "bias")

    "Well there seems to be more sensitivity to some words, words like 'biased' or whatever rather than 'cheat' as you mentioned. So, it is what the F.A deems to be acceptable or not. So it is a little bit difficult to understand where they are coming from sometimes. I suppose they are trying to be consistent at all levels and if a certain word has been used then maybe they feel that they have to do something about it but my interpretation of it of what the Chairman said wasn't in any way questioning the integrity of referees and that wasn't the intention but maybe that is what needs to be clarified.

    "We are not in a bad place so we are really looking forward to the fixture. We have let ourselves down somewhat in previous games where we have had good performances, good results - Man City away springs to mind. We had a great performance and a great result and the very next game we get beat at home. So we have had the scar of that before so we don't want that to happen again. So we have got another opportunity. The first opportunity to really put to be back-to-back wins. We have had opportunities before and haven't taken them so obviously on this occasion we need to take them."

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