Hughes and Mancini at war over handshake

IT really does come to something when the most exciting moment of a Premier League encounter occurs when two silver-haired 40-somethings have a little tantrum with each other at the final whistle.

Mark Hughes, who is rapidly becoming renowned as the scourge of the post-match handshake, felt Roberto Mancini’s behaviour was arrogant and flippant as the Italian did not look in Hughes’s direction when proffering the traditional gesture.

Hughes went into the full-blown glare mode that so terrorised and terrified defenders in the 1980s and 90s as he brushed Mancini aside and stormed down the tunnel.