Source: Daily_Mail
HATCHET MAN: City reject Mills, happy to talk a good game instead of playing it, washed-up at just 3
A news agency ran a story on Tuesday night with Danny Mills backinghis manager Mark Hughes to achieve success at Manchester City.Yes, that is correct, HIS manager. You may have heard Mills a fairbit on the radio and thought he had quit the game to become a pundit.You could also be forgiven for thinking he might have dropped downthe leagues to finish his career after falling well out of favour atEastlands. Letting his mouth do the talking: Manchester City non-player Danny MillsBut no. Mills is still at City, a club he last played for three years ago, and is likely to be there until his lucrative contract runs out in the summer. For more than half the length of the deal he signed when he joined them, he has not had a look in and the Press Association story said he has long since given up playing for them.This is a former England international who is 31 years old, by no means a pensioner by the game's standards, and yet he has allowed a large chunk of his career go to waste. More from Hatchet Man. HATCHET MAN: Palace look set for mid-table mediocrity so Warnock blames West Ham, Scudamore and refs18/03/09 HATCHET MAN: Emirates spat proves Wenger and Brown are a disgrace to their profession18/03/09 HATCHET MAN: Don't you ever learn Ledley? Spurs won't make lapdogs of the Big Four by winning two games in a row18/03/09 HATCHET MAN: Just like the way he went down, Pedersen's excuse is thoroughly unconvincing17/03/09 HATCHET MAN: O'Neill for England? There's only one deal on the Villa manager's mind here17/03/09 HATCHET MAN: Clumsy and aggressive: Olsson won't save West Brom with his new tactics17/03/09 HATCHET MAN: Don't blame Benfica for wanting nothing to do with Middlesborough flop Alves17/03/09 HATCHET MAN: Jagielka heads the race for easy money in the aftermath of the Carlos Tevez affair17/03/09 VIEW FULL ARCHIVE Mills was due to be commenting on City's UEFA Cup game against Aalborg on Thursday night, reduced to a completely peripheral spectator and apparently comfortable with it.But it is only supposed to be foreign mercenaries who adopt this kind of attitude, according to one of the common misconceptions out there.Outspoken and sometimes overly aggressive, Mills may not be many people's favourite player yet he could still do a good job for someone. If he put playing the game ahead of talking about it, that is.