Saturday 10 September 2016 19:04, UK
Mark Hughes admits the officials were right to send him off for leaving his technical area as his Stoke team lost 4-0 to Tottenham.
The Stoke manager was dismissed for verbally abusing the fourth official and the linesman on 35 minutes just before Son Heung-Min grabbed the first of his two goals.
Dele Alli and Harry Kane added further gloss to the scoreline as Stoke remain bottom after taking just one point from their first four games - their worst start to a season for 30 years.
Sparks stared to fly on the touchline when Marko Arnautovic was booked for simulation.
"It was my fault - I came out of my area," Hughes said.
"I wasn't happy as I thought they missed two decisions. Jon Walters in my view got fouled and the linesman didn't raise his flag before Marko had to take evasive action and he gets booked for it. I was disappointed with that but I was also disappointed with my reaction.
"It's not been a great day for us, but we can pick ourselves up."
The balance of the game could have changed if referee Anthony Taylor had deemed Victor Wanyama's challenge on Giannelli Imbula worthy of a second yellow card with the game at 1-0.
Wanyama was substituted just minutes later and it was a decision that Hughes felt the referee got wrong.
He said: "He'd already been booked and he clearly deliberately blocked off our player - it's a second yellow and he should've gone.
"It's interesting that his manager took him off about 10-15 minutes later, so I think he understood he was in danger of getting sent off. He got away with one."
