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London, Jan 10(ANI): Queens Park Rangers striker Jamie Mackie has branded El-Hadji Diouf as “an absolute disgrace” after claiming that the Blackburn Rovers striker had abused him while he lay on the pitch with a broken leg.

Mackie sustained a double fracture in a clash with Blackburn Rovers defender Gael Givet during a third-round match of the FA Cup at Ewood Park on Saturday.

Both players were carried off the pitch on stretchers.

“I’m lying on the floor with a bad injury and even his team-mates were embarrassed by what Diouf was saying. It’s hard for me to even repeat what he said. He called me a disgrace, but that wasn’t the worst of it. He said: ‘F*** you and f*** your leg’,” the Sun quoted Mackie, as saying.

“Look at the tackle, there’s nothing disgraceful about it. It’s just an honest attempt at winning the ball. There are some great lads in football and there are some who aren’t - and he’s in the ones who aren’t.”

“Most of us would never wish bad things on people. But he’s different. There’s no room for that in the game - and in my opinion he’s an absolute disgrace. There’s no place in football for the likes of Diouf. There’s a line and he crossed it,” he added.

Mackie’s season has come to a premature conclusion because of a broken tibia and fibula. (ANI)