PRESTON duo Eoin Doyle and Jermaine Beckford will miss the Blackburn Rovers game next Saturday, with their manager branding them an “embarrassment” after an on-field scuffle at Sheffield Wednesday yesterday.

Both Doyle and Beckford were sent off, and could be set for three match bans, following their actions late in the game as Preston slipped to a 2-1 defeat at Hillsborough.

In remarkable scenes, the two strikers, who had been sent on as second-half substitutes, came together in the closing minutes, pushing each other in the chest before being pulled apart by the team-mates.

The altercation seemed to come about as goalscorer Doyle failed to pass to Beckford as Preston went in search of an equaliser.

Reacting to both of his players being sent off, Simon Grayson branded their antics as an “embarrassment” as they will now miss the derby with Rovers next Saturday.

"In 30 years a player and manager I have never seen an incident like that between two team-mates,” Grayson told the Lancashire Evening Post.

“I thought I had seen everything at the game I went to on Friday night, Nottingham Forest and Newcastle, where there were two missed penalties and two sendings-off.

“But it was an embarrassment, those two players were embarrassing.

“It came from an incident when we broke and there was a disagreement between the two of them about whether it was the right pass to play Marnick Vermijl in.

“Then it was absolutely childish behaviour from the pair of them and that has cost us potentially a point from the game, even three points.

“At 2-1, 11 v 10 it looked like we were going to get something out of the game.

“Those two should be embarrassed, they have let down their team-mates and the fans.

“Our supporters have paid £33 to watch this game which is probably a little bit embarrassing too with it being so expensive.

“They have let a lot of people down.

“We will look at the referee's report and see what he says.

“Whatever it says, those two players will be reprimanded by us regardless.

“They now face three-match bans.”