Bowen pleads for patience from fans

FULHAM ASSISTANT boss Mark Bowen insisted Fulham supporters had been too quick to hurl abuse at manager Mark Hughes during their side’s damaging Barclays Premier League defeat against West Ham on Sunday.

Hughes was subjected to chants of ‘you don’t know what you’re doing’ and ‘Hughes out’ after the Cottagers threw away the lead in Sunday’s 3-1 home defeat to the Hammers’.

The result sucked Fulham into the drop zone, level on points with their previously rock-bottom opponents, and piled the pressure on the manager less than six months into his reign.