Dunne And Dumber
Richard Dunne grabbing a goal is nothing new, but doing at the right end was a welcome departure from the norm. His goal in the 1-1 draw, could have inspired a 90 yard and slide in front of his former fans, but it says a lot about what Man City have let go that his celebrations were considerably more muted.

The Dunne case is an example of what will undermine the revolution at Man City. For the last few years he was the best player at the club and even though expectations may have risen, he was still worthy of his place in the team. Signing Lescott – who’s goals hide the fact he’s often a liability in defence – and Toure was very much trading sideways and letting Dunne go was a mistake. Just because you’re spending money, doesn’t mean you’re guaranteed to end up with a better player than you started out with.

Good central defenders are like an anorexic slumber party – thin on the ground. Dunne’s knack of sticking the ball in the wrong net may have hurt his image, but all top class central defenders have had moments they’d rather forget. For all the praise the ‘unsung hero’ gets, Nemanja Vidic has racked up a reasonable collection of howlers during his time covering up Rio Ferdinand’s inadequacies. Throughout European football, there are very few central defenders you’d have a huge amount of faith in. Dunne might not have been the very best, but he wasn’t as far off as Mark Hughes might have thought. Great bit of business by Martin O’Neill.

In Football News, Rather Than Football Rants:
- Don’t blame George Gillet for Liverpool’s stuttering start to the season. Blame it on sub-prime mortgages and Wall Street. And Rafa Benitez. Yeah actually, blame it all on Rafa Benitez, that won’t cause any problems.
 
- I wasn’t aware that a move to a club where you’re not going to win the Champions League was illegal. It’s stupid, but not illegal.
 
- It’s clearly a slow news day so here’s a headed goal from just outside the centre circle.
 
- Cheer up Ben Foster. You could be this bad. Same mistake – two minutes apart. Pt 1. Pt 2.
 

A Freaky Story And Other Stuff
- Ted Williams is a baseball legend and a decorated war hero. He also believed that one day science would advance to a point where he and the deceased members of his family could be reanimated from a frozen state and reunited. Not so impressed now, are ya?
When Williams died in 2002, his body was frozen. What followed was several years of legal wrangling over the ‘agreement’ – which was written on a napkin and alleged to have been filled in after Williams had signed the then blank napkin as a practice autograph. Now a judge in New York has decided there’s nothing wrong with the publishing of a book alleging that Williams’ decapitated head was used as a baseball by a technician swinging a monkey wrench. That was a long story, but one that I think was worth telling.
 
- Buoyed by his remarkable victory in the US Open, Juan Martin Del Potro is on top of the world and unbeatable. Em … no, not quite.
 
- No Grand Slam titles + not playing well = you shouldn’t be world number 1. That seems fair enough and Dinara Safina is on the verge of finding out it makes sense after an early exit in China.

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