Managers are not in the habit of saying it was my fault.though are they? Probably rightly, they figure that publicly admitting culpability for a defeat only gives owners an excuse to sack them - especially when the owner concerned is so trigger happy and, in recent years has been in the habit of sacking managers in September/October. The only City manager I can remember occasionally saying that was my fault is Neil Warnock who, for most of his time at City was a strong enough character to take Tan, Dalman and Choo along with him - he was virtually dictating club policy - even then though, Warnock’s admissions of guilt were often followed by, say, a rant against the officials!

That said, throwing his team under a bus and singling out a young player (who most think was playing pretty well) for criticism is not a good look. Even if the players, as they need to in this case, have to share some of the blame for what happened, these things should be done behind closed doors.

Also, there are ways and means of making it clear that it wasn’t entirely down to them. By speaking in the way he did, Bulut isn’t doing that and, like Dave Jones did once at Ipswich with Adam Matthews, he’s even gone as far as criticising a young player in public - as mentioned above, Bulut’s comments have a Morisonesque feel to them and we don’t want to be going there again.