Preferably three or four like him, to judge from the half-speed, half-hearted efforts of some wearing the white shirt. The ineptitude has not escaped the Cottage supporters either. Individual errors were booed and the team were jeered off, both at half-time and the finish.The jeers were deserved, in Coleman's opinion. In a coruscating appraisal, the Premiership's youngest manager said: "My team didn't look as if they were interested, to be honest. The first 45 minutes were definitely the worst I can remember in my time in charge."Claiming he would have liked to change everybody at the interval if he had been able, Coleman said: "Their body language was atrocious So-called ball players didn't want the ball. If they aren't prepared to roll their sleeves up, there is no room for them in my team I was looking to bring in one or two [players] in January.

It will be three or four now."The uncertain Fulham defence was ripped apart before 10 minutes had gone. They certainly slid deeper into relegation trouble with this, their third straight defeat. Fulham were as appalling in virtually every department as Blackburn were enterprising and upbeat in registering only their second win of the season, and their first away, although as the manager, Mark Hughes, pointed out: "We haven't been beaten in five games now. That's not the form of a team struggling." The Fulham manager Chris Coleman had labelled this "a six-pointer" If so, Fulham duly dropped six points.

Fulham are celebrating their 125th year and their efforts frequently looked equally ancient. Only Steed Malbranque and the lone striker and captain, Andy Cole, could be excepted from blame, though what on earth Fulham were doing parading a single striker against the bottom club defies conjecture.Whatever happened to the Fulham of the John Collins era, the team that passed their way so brilliantly into the Premiership? Hit and hope will get them nowhere, as they showed. They flew at Fulham from the start, disrupted what little cohesion the London side were trying to assemble and were well worth the victory. That's not the form of a team struggling." As a lunchtime match which had finished before anyone else kicked off, Blackburn were also given the enormous, if temporary, boost of a five-place rise from the bottom of the Premiership.Not that Hughes's side appeared short of confidence.

That was Macken's first Premiership goal since March, but more will surely follow with that shooting instinct at his disposal.Villa, looking to win a fourth consecutive Premiership match for the first time in four years, had the will but not the ability to get back into the game before Shaun Wright-Phillips doubled City's lead eight minutes before half-time. The Fulham manager Chris Coleman had labelled this "a six-pointer" If so, Fulham duly dropped six points. Angel's miss from the rebound and Lee Hendrie's last-minute sending-off for pretending to head-butt Mills summed up Villa's miserable night.. The ball fell to him fortuitously just inside the Villa penalty area after good work from Mills and Robbie Fowler, and he showed great strength and poise to hold off Mark Delaney and score with a low right-foot shot on the turn. A player of Anelka's class would surely have done better than Jon Macken, though, when a Danny Mills free-kick presented him with a straightforward header from about eight yards out, in the 12th minute.But we will never know if Anelka could have done as well as Macken when he shot City into a deserved lead in the 29th minute. Looked to be trying a little too hard against Everton but is still highly regarded..