West Brom boss Tony Pulis called Stoke captain Ryan Shawcross a "loser'' in a voicemail message following last weekend's Premier League clash between the clubs, Potters manager Mark Hughes has claimed.
Hughes says the defender, who was skipper under Pulis at Stoke for several years, received the message from his former boss on Monday.
That was two days on from Stoke's 1-0 defeat at The Hawthorns, and the day after Shawcross was quoted as saying "someone from West Brom's side must have been speaking to the papers'' regarding the way news emerged of Saido Berahino's ban from earlier in the season.