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Tony Pulis explains fallout from naked James Beattie shower fight

Tony Pulis joined Off The Ball to look back on his life in football via one of the more bizarre f...



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Tony Pulis explains fallout from naked James Beattie shower fight

Tony Pulis joined Off The Ball to look back on his life in football via one of the more bizarre football stories - a naked shower fight with James Beattie.

Beattie was at Stoke as a striker in 2009 when there was an altercation between the two, and Pulis is keen to keep exactly what happens under wraps, but spoke of the fallout.

"I think what happens in the dressing room stays in the dressing room," Pulis said, laughing.

"As I've said before, I think James scored 12 goals for us from Christmas on - him and Matty Etherington in that second year, they kept us up without a question of a doubt.

"Every time we got a cross into the box that season, Beattie would seem to score."

Tony Pulis v Beattie

Pulis said that the incident, which has effectively gone down in Premier League folklore, was a lesson in how to deal with dressing room discipline.

"I think there are different instances or happenings that you respond differently with. There are some things that you can wash away, other things that you feel like it might come back and bite you, the club or the players.

"If anything that I thought that it would affect the dressing room, in that they are the most important people, then I would deal with it. If I felt that it was something that we could get over and move on, then there was no problem with me.

"I've always put the club first, I have to put the players and the club first. I'm the type of person that, if I don't think things are being done properly, whether it's a chairman or a player... I won't have it. It's just not part of me."

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