Mark Hughes, the Stoke manager, admitted his players found it "very difficult to cope" with Spurs and suggested that Pochettino's team could yet overhaul Leicester.
Making his closing speech, Anthony Berry QC, for Fulton, said the pair had shown "fortitude and sang-froid", adding: "Lesser men may have been overwhelmed and have found it very difficult to cope".
But in an interview broadcast by the BBC on Friday, O'Brien said he believed Catholic priests ought to be able to marry and have children, claiming many priests found it "very difficult to cope" with celibacy.
"Many priests have found it very difficult to cope with celibacy as they lived out their priesthood and felt the need of a companion," said Cardinal O'Brien, 74, the head of the Roman Catholic Church in Scotland.
"And I realise that many priests have found it very difficult to cope with celibacy as they lived out their priesthood and felt the need of a companion, of a woman, to whom they could get married and raise a family of their own".
Last month, Cardinal Keith O'Brien, the head of the Roman Catholic Church in Scotland, made headlines when he said that "many priests have found it very difficult to cope with celibacy as they lived out their priesthood and felt the need of a companion".
