Source: Daily_Mail
HATCHET MAN: If Hughes doesn't know what he's doing, blundering City captain must be Dunne for
Mark Hughes, according to Manchester City fans, doesn't know what he is doing, but why does Richard Dunne escape their wrath?
The manager just left Robinho, the uninterested, out of form, big-time Charlie, out of his team for the depressing defeat by Fulham on Sunday.
Yet it was the accident-prone defender who did the damage.
Hughes may have his faults and standing by Dunne is surely one of them, but even the Irishman's most loyal backers must have cringed at the Sunday League performance he produced at Eastlands.
He just makes too many mistakes to lead a club aiming for the stars.
Dunne's capacity to lose his head with a rush into no-man's land, leave his striker in space, get caught for pace and try to be too clever near his own penalty area, make him a liability.
Great when it is his day, Dunne is a disaster when it is not and he ought to start thinking about where he would like to play next.
Fortunately, the player who was set to leave last summer before agreeing a new deal, seems to at least have an inkling his time may be up.
Before Sunday's game, he said: 'People have tried to put Mark Hughes under pressure but it's the players who should be worrying about their futures.
'We have owners who seem prepared to spend a lot to get a winning side on the pitch.
'If there isn't evidence that we're on the right track then players will be moved out and new ones brought in.'
The evidence is, at best, circumstantial and by his own reckoning Dunne should be feeling vulnerable.
