Hughes leaps to Murphy's defence Mark Hughes has dedicated Danny Murphy in acknowledgment to the furore over the Fulham captain's comments that some managers accelerate their players out too pumped up. Stoke, Wolves and Blackburn were called by Murphy, who branded some tackles "ridiculous" and "brainless" and insisted managers should booty responsibility. Rovers bang-up Sam Allardyce led the backfire on Thursday by ambitious an apology, but Hughes banned to adjudge his player. "In his appearance in assertive amateur adjoin assertive opposition, opponents accept over-stepped the mark. "There's a lot been said about Danny actuality aweless to the manager, but accepting had conversations with him he has huge account for the managers of the teams he mentioned. Damien Duff and Dickson Etuhu will absence the affray with Tottenham. Mousa Dembele is accessible afterwards convalescent from his abate abrasion but Andy Johnson (knee) is still one anniversary abroad from an aboriginal aggregation return. Meanwhile, Harry Redknapp believes Premier Alliance football one day will be played all about the world. The Tottenham administrator says it is the assured aftereffect from the arrival of adopted owners in the English league. In an anniversary in which Liverpool's approaching has been fought out in courts on both abandon of the Atlantic, Redknapp describes the alteration face of English football traditions as "sad". "When we started arena football Bob Lord, the administrator at Burnley, was the bounded butcher. At West Ham, the buyer had a copse backyard up in Wanstead flats, it was their club and they lived for it. It's nice to see clubs endemic by bodies with animosity for the club, English owners, like at West Ham. Tottenham are the same, we accept English owners. "Sheffield Wednesday are actuality bought by addition in the Far East - we'll all end up arena our amateur in the Far East. Redknapp is added anxious with demography three credibility than annoying about comatose players for the Champions Alliance appointment adjoin Inter Milan on Wednesday. With abiding abrasion victim Michael Dawson still missing and William Gallas and Younes Kaboul aback in training but not yet ready, Redknapp's big accommodation is whether to comedy axial apostle Ledley King at the weekend or on Wednesday. His abiding knee injuries anticipate him arena alert in abutting succession. But Redknapp insists the alliance charcoal Tottenham's priority. "It is adamantine acclimation the Champions Alliance with the Premier League," accepted Redknapp. "If we appetite to comedy Champions Alliance football like Manchester United, Chelsea and Arsenal consistently do every year we accept to accomplishment in the top four again."
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