Stoke City manager Mark Hughes has admitted that he made a mistake when he resigned as Fulham boss in 2011.
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The 49-year-old Welshman decided to leave Craven Cottage after being heavily linked with the vacant job at Aston Villa but his next managerial position was an unsuccessful 10-month spell at Queen's Park Rangers
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"I left (Fulham) under something of a cloud," Hughes told a news conference on Thursday ahead of Stoke's Premier League game at Fulham on Saturday.
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"At the time I made the decision to leave because, given what I knew and what I thought was going to happen in the future, I couldn't commit to a new contract.