Hughes has fingers crossed for Todd
Blackburn boss Mark Hughes is hoping the Football Association will today see sense and not hit skipper Andy Todd with a three-match ban.
Todd has pleaded not guilty to a charge of violent conduct, claiming his elbow in the face of Arsenal striker Robin van Persie at the end of Saturday’s FA Cup semi-final defeat at Cardiff’s Millennium Stadium was “purely accidental”.
Under the FA’s fast-track system, a disciplinary commission panel will sit in judgment on Todd, remarkably without hearing from the player or from anybody connected with Rovers in person.
That has angered and astounded Hughes who said: “We are desperately disappointed he is going to have to go through this FA hearing which we feel is very unfair.
“It makes it very difficult when you are not given the opportunity to have a personal hearing, which I find crazy.
“We are not allowed to have anybody there because of this fast-track system, whatever that means, so we have got to keep our fingers crossed.”
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