Extract from The Telegraph... Former Fulham manager Mark Hughes accepts he probably made a mistake leaving the club. Hughes, who is now in charge at Stoke, resigned as Cottagers boss in the summer of 2011 saying he wanted to "further my experiences". At the time he had been heavily linked with a vacancy at Aston Villa but it was QPR where he was to work next, in what proved a dire spell. The Welshman spent just 10 months at Loftus Road, narrowly avoiding relegation in 2012 and, despite heavy investment, being sacked just 12 games into the next Premier League campaign. Hughes, who is preparing to return to Craven Cottage with Stoke this weekend, said: "I left under something of a cloud. "At the time I made the decision to leave because, given what I knew and what I thought was going to happen in the future, I couldn't commit to a new contract. "I made the decision to leave but, with hindsight, it was probably the wrong decision. "When I was there I had a few doubts over what kind of investment would be made available to strengthen the team. I interpreted that as maybe the club didn't want to keep on progressing. "Obviously, almost immediately after I left they started investing in good players and spending some money, so I probably got that wrong." It won't stop him being one of only two FFC managers in 20 years thoroughly deserving the negative reception at The Cottage on Saturday. C O Y W
Although no fan of sparky,he did get us Dembele,who we made a 10m profit on. Will we get that much when the stampede starts for Ruiz.
I have no doubts about the crowd booing him; the volume of the chanting was great. Irrespective of how we got the 3 points, I want the Boo-Boys to back-off MJ for a while.
And poor Sparky got wound up by everyone. A man who was sorry to have left FFC. I look forward to his return next time, whoever will match his ambitions of course.
