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• Nickname:Potters
• Founded:1863
• Manager:Tony Pulis

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• Capacity:28,218

Pulis: Potters pair made up

02 Jan 2009 - 07:10:27

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Stoke City manager Tony Pulis has drawn a line under the recent spat between skipper Andy Griffin and Ricardo Fuller during the 2-1 defeat to West Ham.

Fuller was sent off and handed a three-match ban for slapping Griffin in the face during the Upton Park clash, but Pulis says that morale in the Potters camp has not been affected by the incident.

He said: "Ric and Griff have apologised to one another and to the group as a whole. They have also been punished in-house and it's over and done with.

"We had a really good meeting with everyone having their say and, as I've said many times before, we've got a smashing group of lads here. There isn't one bad egg among them.

"The incident was disappointing in lots of respects and we can't deny that. But everyone makes mistakes and you have to learn from them and get on with life.

"They are both committed players with passion, but on this occasion the passion flowed over.

"Unfortunately, we also went on to lose a game we would probably have got at least a point from if we had kept 11 men on the field.

"To add to that, we will have to do without Ric who has been suspended for the next three games.

"People can construe what they want, but Ric and Griff had an argument and it has now been sorted. They have kissed and made up.

"Ric has two-and-a-half years left on his contract and he's going nowhere. All the talk about sacking him or selling him, or this and that, is a load of rubbish."