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BOLTON fans last night branded Easter Road boss Alan Stubbs a HYPOCRITE over his handling of the Scott Allan transfer saga.

The Hibs gaffer has rejected two bids from Rangers for his star player – despite the fact Allan has submitted a written transfer request.

Hibs have thrown out offers of £175,000 and £225,000 for the midfielder who still has a year left on his contract.

Last week Stubbs and Hibs chief executive Leeann Dempster refused to deny a verbal agreement was reached with the player when he signed that would allow him to go if a bigger club came calling.

The Hibees gaffer was in a similar predicament to Allan in 1995 while at Bolton with clubs such as Arsenal and Celtic interested in signing him.

Like Allan – who netted in yesterday’s 3-0 win over Montrose – Stubbs handed in a transfer request and eventually got a £4m move to Parkhead.

Stubbs last week denied he was being hypocritical over Allan and that his player’s situation is totally different to the one he faced at Bolton but Trotters fans beg to differ.

The Bolton Wanderers Supporters Association insist Stubbs engineered his own exit when he was at their club and shouldn’t be surprised to see Allan do the same at Hibs.

Christopher Jones, the BWSA vice-chairman, told MailSport: “The way Stubbs is handling this is very hypocritical.

“When he wanted out of Bolton he became quite belligerent around the club. He kept himself to himself in the dressing room.

“Big clubs like Arsenal were interested at the time and I remember how he behaved.

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“Stubbs essentially handed in his notice through the media. And that wasn’t the way it should have been handled.

“The Bolton fans began to give him cat calls and boos. Everything was turned around on him due to how he acted with the transfer request.

“If I was Alan Stubbs now I’d be initially disappointed that a player like Scott Allan wanted to leave. But I’d then think back to the position I was in 20 years ago. He wanted to make himself better at a different team.

“He should be thinking about that with Allan now."

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