Managers and players are not always the best of friends and that was certainly the case between Joey Barton and Mark Hughes.
The pair will cross paths on Saturday when Barton's Bristol Rovers take on Bradford City, managed by Hughes, at the Mem. Barton captained Queens Park Rangers in the Premier League under Hughes in 2012, but they did not see eye to eye and the now Gas boss left on loan for Marseille that summer, a few months before the ex-Wales manager was sacked.
In promoting the release of his autobiography No Nonsense in 2016, Barton said Hughes – then in charge of Stoke City – was a "terrible manager" with "really poor people skills". In said book, Barton discussed their fractious relationship and he has later said they "hated" each other during their time at QPR.
