City boss rages as ace Shaun faces ban.MARK HUGHES This article is about the Welsh footballer. For other people with the same name, see Mark Hughes (disambiguation). Leslie Mark Hughes OBE (born November 1, 1963 in Ruabon, Wrexham, Wales), nicknamed Sparky has attacked the disciplinary system that is likely to see Shaun Wright-Phillips Shaun Cameron Wright-Phillips (born 25 October 1981 in Greenwich, London) is an English football player of Jamaican and Grenadian descent. He is the adopted son of the famous player Ian Wright, the half-brother of fellow player Bradley Wright-Phillips and brother to the upcoming suffer the same three-game ban as his assailant, Rory Delap, picked up at Stoke. Delap was sent off at the Britannia Stadium for twice kicking Wright-Phillips from behind. But the City player's reaction, a petulant pet·u·lant adj. 1. Unreasonably irritable or ill-tempered; peevish. 2. Contemptuous in speech or behavior. [Latin petul swing of the boot, was missed by referee Martin Atkinson. The Leeds official has since told the FA that he would also have dismissed Wright-Phillips had he spotted the reaction, so City are unlikely to win their case even if they do decide to appeal against a violent conduct charge. Although Wright-Phillips will now be free to face Middlesbrough tomorrow after successfully arguing to be given more time to put a defence together, it seems highly likely he will be forced to sit out three games, starting with next Saturday's trip to Portsmouth. Delap will be out for a similar period. "Yes, what Shaun did was retaliation. But was it violent?" questioned Hughes. "It was a human reaction to a situation that was not of his making. "Shaun was hacked down from behind and the guy followed through on him. In my mind that is violent conduct. "To have the same three-game ban as Rory Delap is incorrect but that is what we are faced with at the moment." |
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