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Are all Stoke just liars
Hughes suggested westbrom leaked the ban,not directly but you will get the drift when you read the link
Then goes on to say he didn't know about it
Yet yesterday in his pre  match interview and if you go back a day on newsnow it's clearly there
He says
Yes we were fully aware of the eight week ban or whatever it was before he signed
How can you say things one day and completely denie them later
I think they have there knickers in a twist  

http://c.newsnow.co.uk/A/870572515?-11200:789:0

Hughes is asking a fair question. He is saying that he and Stoke City knew of the 8 week FA ban, because Albion were upfront about it, but he's asking how it got out into the public domain via the Press. The wording of his interview yesterday appears to exonerate Albion, and at the same time lay the blame at Albion's door, but what he fails to acknowledge is that the leak could have come from someone at Stoke City.

The fact that Albion managed to keep the ban hush-hush for weeks and months, but suddenly it all comes out in the papers after the transfer goes through, leads me to question Stoke City, and I would suggest Mark Hughes focuses his enquiries there.

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Great match, great result.

For all that we've lamented our striker troubles in recent years, today illustrated something even more vital: that we're building a proper Premier League quality midfield again who can counter-attack and create chances from open play.  This was the real missing link in the days of Pepe Mel and Alan Irvine, and it's fantastic to see the problem finally being fixed.

Goals from midfield were a feature of our Championship-winning team of 2007-08. Kevin Phillips scored 22 league goals (Miller 9, Bednar 13, Beattie 3) but Morrison, Gera, Brunt and Texeira, Robert Koren and Jonno ("the best midfield in the world", lol) chipped in with 32 goals (with one by Do Heon). The defenders got 7 and OG 2, total 88. So - attack scored 47 goals, MF 32, a ratio of 3:2. If we can replicate that sort of ratio in the PL, I'll be happy. I don't have the current numbers to hand, sorry. And we won't score 88 goals in the PL.