Derby midfielder Robbie Savage is disappointed that the two dressing room fracas involving both Stoke City and QPR reached the public domain.
Jim Magilton has been suspended while the club undergo an internal investigation over an alleged incident involving the Rangers’ boss and midfielder Akos Buzsaky, whilst Stoke manager Tony Pulis says the confrontation between himself and striker James Beattie is ‘done and dusted’.
Savage said: “I’ve seen some dressing room dust-ups in my time. Teammates swapping punches, managers grabbing players by the scruff of the neck, tea cups hitting the wall.
“But unlike this week’s spats involving Stoke and QPR, none of them ever made the papers and that’s what I find disappointing about the way it seems to be going in the age of Twitter, Facebook and wall-to-wall 24-hour news.
“I was brought up to believe what happens in the dressing room stays in the dressing room.
“I don’t know what happened between Tony Pulis and James Beattie, or Jim Magilton and Akos Buzsaky. But I do know that emotions run high in any dressing room after a defeat and the unwritten code used to be that you would simply take it and get on with it.”
