{"id":76952,"date":"2018-01-06T21:36:16","date_gmt":"2018-01-06T20:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newmail-ng.com\/?p=76952"},"modified":"2018-01-06T21:36:16","modified_gmt":"2018-01-06T20:36:16","slug":"stoke-sack-mark-hughes-poor-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newmail-ng.com\/stoke-sack-mark-hughes-poor-run\/","title":{"rendered":"Stoke sack Mark Hughes after poor run"},"content":{"rendered":"
Mark Hughes has been sacked as manager of Stoke City, just hours after the club’s FA Cup third-round exit at the hands of League Two side Coventry City.<\/p>\n
A run of five defeats in seven Premier League games also contributed to Hughes’ departure and he leaves with the club in the relegation zone.<\/p>\n
Hughes, 54, had been in charge of the Potters for four and a half years.<\/p>\n
Stoke, who play Manchester United on 15 January, say they will “look to appoint a new manager as soon as possible”.<\/p>\n
A section of Stoke fans called for him to leave and held up banners throughout the 2-1 defeat at the Ricoh Arena.<\/p>\n
Hughes, a former Manchester City, Blackburn Rovers, Fulham and QPR boss, succeeded Tony Pulis at Stoke in May 2013.<\/p>\n
He guided the club to three straight ninth-placed finishes, dropping to 13th last season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Mark Hughes has been sacked as manager of Stoke City, just hours after the club’s FA Cup third-round exit at the hands of League Two side Coventry City. A run of five defeats in seven Premier League games also contributed to Hughes’ departure and he leaves with the club in the relegation zone. Hughes, 54, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":76953,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[41573,27251,67,3850],"yoast_head":"\n