Tevez tears Fulham to shreds

THIS was supposed to be the day when Mark Hughes gleefully hammered home the final nail in Roberto Mancini’s coffin and ended his successor’s career at Manchester City.

Instead, the visitors shrugged off all talk of a crisis to produce the kind of performance that you would expect from an investment of over €350m by their Abu Dhabi owners.

It was the perfect end to a difficult day for Mancini, which began with Kolo Toure hitting out at his own team-mates in a newspaper interview, claiming they should be deducted pay for their performances to date.