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"Swansea fans will probably be delighted to see me tip their team to lose after I got their fortunes so badly wrong last season......... But the bad news for Swans supporters is that I don't think there is any way they are in danger of being relegated in reality this season. They are probably all panicking now I have said that!"
Stoke City midfielder Charlie Adam fails in an appeal against a Football Association charge of violent conduct and will serve a three-match suspension with immediate effect. The 28-year-old Scotland international was charged after appearing to stamp on Arsenal's Olivier Giroud last Saturday.
Stoke chief executive Tony Scholes tells the club's website: "I am extremely disappointed for the effect that this is going to have on Charlie and on the football club."