After elbow during Scunthorpe United game, Notts County striker Lee Hughes charged with violent conduct
Notts County's Lee Hughes has been hit by a three-match ban for elbowing Iron defender Tom Newey during last weekend's 2-2 draw at Glanford Park.
The incident went unpunished by match referee Eddie Ilderton, but after viewing the video the Football Association have deemed it serious enough to hit the veteran striker with a retrospective charge of violent conduct.
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Lee Hughes scores Notts County's equaliser at Glanford Park on Saturday - but he shouldn't have been on the pitch after elbowing the Iron's Tom Newey. Picture: David Haber.
Newey needed several minutes of treatment after the whack and Hughes went on to compound the Iron's misery by netting his side a late equaliser - his second goal of the game.
At the time of the incident, Scunthorpe were down to 10 men after Paul Reid had been sent off for using an elbow in an aerial challenge with visiting substitute Yoann Arquin.
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Manager Brian Laws was fuming that he had lost his club captain, but Hughes had escaped a similar fate. He said the Notts County striker had 'got away with murder'.
United appealed Reid's red card, but a disciplinary panel ruled on Tuesday that it should stand.
The Magpies will not contest Hughes' ban.
Comments
by delboyseven
Friday, November 23 2012, 4:36PM
“an ex con with a disciplinary record to match,what do you expect.”
by DFlated
Friday, November 23 2012, 11:34AM
“Lol Lol Lol Lol - smiley smiley smiley - ho ho ho.”
by ironite
Friday, November 23 2012, 10:26AM
“Big shock. Not so much a "bull in a China Shop" as a "Thug in a Pottery"”
by Oldironfan
Friday, November 23 2012, 8:36AM
“The thug has left County and gone to Port Vale”
by ironite
Friday, November 23 2012, 8:19AM
“Who?”
by DFlated
Friday, November 23 2012, 7:48AM
“Someone is trying too hard to be funny and as such it has the opposite effect.”
by ironite
Thursday, November 22 2012, 10:59PM
“I'll admit there's a hedonistic agenda to my 'boot on town steps' plan. I recently acquired a minority stake in a business the dyes leather in a never ending supply of technicoloured possibilities for no discernibly obvious reason. I also heard that the Serengeti terrain was becoming harsher due to even than lower than average annual rainfall, so invested in a 'Protective Footwear for Elephants" factory.
Suffice to say, business has been slow.”
by localad
Thursday, November 22 2012, 10:44PM
“Hughes should not even be playing football after his horrendous drink driving and leaving the scene of causing a death incident. Utter scum bag.”
by Deereyme
Thursday, November 22 2012, 10:35PM
“I prefer it when you write this sort of stuff ironite except perhaps kick him in the town halls not bend over the civic steps. And maybe a damn good kick a not a 'darn' good one. Sounds a bit 'Five Go Mad on Ashby Road'. Peace and 'Up the Iron'.”
by ironite
Thursday, November 22 2012, 10:22PM
“Here's a solution....Hughes gets the 3 match ban for his crimes but one of them has to be served against us in the return game. If the incident occured during the final meeting between the two sides that season, he should be made to bend over on the steps of the offended clubs' Town Hall while the Lord Mayor gives him to darn good kicking using a novelty oversized boot clad in the colours of the team?”