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Mark Hughes: "We will respect the handshake"

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Queens Park Rangers boss Mark Hughes says that the public must "wait and see" if Anton Ferdinand refuses to shake the hand of John Terry and Ashley Cole before tomorrow's Premier League fixture.

Queens Park Rangers manager Mark Hughes has said that his players will go ahead with the pre-match handshake if the Premier League tells them to do so.

The issue has been raised once again head of Chelsea's visit to Loftus Road tomorrow.

It follows the fallout from John Terry's court case, which was brought by Anton Ferdinand on the grounds that he believed the Chelsea had racially abused him during the corresponding fixture in October of last year.

The pre-match handshake was scrapped on the two subsequent occasions that the sides met last season, and Ferdinand is reportedly ready to snub the handshake once again.

"There's a lot of debate every time we have a game against Chelsea," said Hughes.

"I've got my own views on the handshake and I've raised them at Premier League level before the season started, but we'll be guided by the Premier League and we'll respect the handshake if that's what we're told needs to happen.

"We're governed by the Premier League and if we're told to go along with the pre-match procedure, ritual - call it what you want - then we will do that."

When asked if Ferdinand would refrain from the handshake, Hughes replied: "We will have to wait and see."

Luis Suarez famously refused to shake Patrice Evra's hand before a match at Old Trafford.

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