Stoke boss Tony Pulis has called on the Professional Footballers' Association to demand higher standards of behaviour from its members after accusing an unnamed Newcastle player of feigning injury during his side's 2-1 Barclays Premier League victory at St James' Park. Pulis refused to identify the player in question, but said: "With the bad publicity we have had this week with the challenge from Andy Wilkinson, I was really disappointed when one of the Newcastle players went down and I think simulated an injury from a challenge.
"Three passes later, he jumped up and was running around as if nothing had happened.
"The PFA have a responsibility as an organisation to make sure their players don't do things like that because you put other players under enormous pressure, but also you but referees and officials under enormous pressure.
"We have been highlighted with one or two other clubs for supposedly being over-physical, and there are other aspects to our game that need to be addressed, and that is certainly, for me, one of them."
Asked to name the player, Pulis replied: "I don't know, you will have to look at the tape yourself."
However, Newcastle counterpart Chris Hughton refuted the claim.
He said: "I would be very, very surprised. We were up against a hard-running, very physical side in Stoke who certainly put themselves about.
"But I certainly didn't see any play-acting from any of our players. "I would be very, very surprised at that, very surprised."
