Not that Mark Hughes can ever be accused of being a sore loser or anything but after his moan at our soft penalty that saw QPR safely out of the FA Cup yesterday, he thought he’d have his say on the JT thing for good measure.
Having watched the Chelsea captain stroll through the game completely untroubled by his players, on the non-handshake debate, Hughes made it known there could have been a bit of ganging-up going ‘Team Tevez’ style. The QPR boss says “There could well have been an issue but players make their own decisions. I said Anton was the guy who had to make his own decisions for himself about whether or not he shook John Terry’s hand. With the group I have got I know they wanted to support their team-mate and the situation in the end was to take it out of the equation and not to have the issue. There were discussions this morning as well and Chelsea had their views and basically we all came to the same decision.”
Mind you, to be fair to him, Hughes at least acknowledged JT didn’t look like he could give a toss what anyone in the ground thought, saying “John is a big figure in the game and I am sure he gets booed at every away game. I think he plays the same way and rarely have I seen anything created by headlines effect John Terry, which was the same today. For him to come through that, I think shows great credit. He was of the mind he was going to play today and he put in a great performance.”
Not that there was much for him to do eh?
Blue is the colour
