Mark Hughes

[barrie_burn]

Not sure of the financial position at Stoke.The Chairman's daughter is the founder of Bet 365 but I don't know how much involvement she has with the Club.

Can't see Shaqiri and Joe Allen wanting to hang around if they get relegated.

[Altobelli]

Stoke apparently sticking with him for the time being, which is good as I like his lame excuses

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/...ob-fa-cup-tie/

[The Bedlington Terrier]

Dyche already installed as favourite to replace Hughes.

Pretty disrespectful to the Clarets I think.

Did you get back safely to Swansea my mate?

[barrie_burn]

I got back to Cardiff ok but that M6 just gets worse.

Very enjoyable yesterday and I'll get over the result.I was really looking forward to seeing Tarkowski yesterday and I thought he was really impressive.If,as you say,he is reluctant to extend his contract then we'll get a lot of money if we decide to sell.The worry is finding someone to replace him.

[oldcolner]

Stoke now in bottom three will increase pressure on Hughes and whoever replaces him

[Turfmoorspirit]

Hope he gets the axe ,so i dont have see and hear his boring mono tone interviews again.

[In Dyche We Trust]

he will get another job before long dont worry

[The Bedlington Terrier]

I got back to Cardiff ok but that M6 just gets worse.

Very enjoyable yesterday and I'll get over the result.I was really looking forward to seeing Tarkowski yesterday and I thought he was really impressive.If,as you say,he is reluctant to extend his contract then we'll get a lot of money if we decide to sell.The worry is finding someone to replace him.

Apologies Barrie! I can never tell Cardiff and Swansea apart. They are both jam packed with mad Welshmen!

[barrie_burn]

Correct.That's why we have a lot of sheep

[sinkov]

I'm just reading Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia), they're on a hill overlooking a Turkish garrison and a shepherd boy is approaching with his flock. Worried that he might give their position away they capture him. Lawrence then tells how the shepherds in Arabia are a class apart, out in the hills with their flocks from a very young age and totally uneducated. He says,

"With manhood they become sullen, while a few turned dangerously savage, more animal than man, haunting the flocks, and finding the satisfaction of their adult appetites in them, to the exclusion of more licit affections."

And there was me thinking it was just the Welsh.