BLACKBURN Rovers boss Sam Allardyce believes there is nothing wrong with a “dressing room scuffle”.

Manager conduct has come under the spotlight this week after allegations that both Stoke boss Tony Pulis and his QPR counterpart Jim Magilton were involved in physical confrontations with players.

Magilton, who denies any wrongdoing, has been suspended by QPR while Pulis insists Stoke have moved on after his reported bust-up with James Beattie, but Allardyce feels confrontation is inevitable in the emotional cauldron of a dressing room.

”What’s wrong with a scuffle in the dressing room? I don’t know what’s wrong with it,” Allardyce said.

”We have this politically correct world that we live in today which means that if we do the wrong things in the wrong areas, we are supposed to be lambasted for it, or banned for life or something.

”It’s an emotional game - if you have a scuffle, you have a scuffle and you deal with it and you get on with it.

”But obviously as managers nowadays we can’t be seen to be doing those things because we’ll get heavily criticised for it.

”Sometimes it is a bit difficult to keep your cool when things have not gone quite right, or perhaps you think a player has let you down, or he says something at the wrong time in the wrong area when emotions are high.

”It happens to us all in football because it is a highly emotional game.

"If we take the emotion out of it, we’ve got no game.”

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