SO, David Dunn is giving manager Graeme Souness the silent treatment.

Neither of them will probably thank me for raising a sensitive issue that has already attracted a lot of media attention. But I'm trying to look on the positive side of what some supporters may see as a damaging situation.

With a dressing room full of different types of players and different nationalities, all who have reasons for why they should be a first team regular, how hard must it be to run a football club in absolute harmony?

On top of that, those players have different characters and personalities. Some will clash with each other, most will probably clash with their manager at some point or other.

The key is to not let those disagreements get personal or have an adverse affect on the team as a whole.

Dunn and Souness are at loggerheads at the moment after the Rovers boss blamed the midfielder's habit of picking up injuries on not giving 100 per cent in training. He later revealed that Dunn wasn't speaking to him, which could be seen as a damaging move.

But, if you ask me, it's just a case of good man management because, from what I can see, although it's a dispute that has been made very public, it's something they will thrash out between themselves and not let affect anyone else.

When Souness said he would relucantly listen to offers for Dunn, there was much debate over whether he meant it or whether he was firing a warning shot.

Out injured, there was little Dunn could do to show Rovers fans that he meant business for Blackburn - until Saturday. And his performance at Stamford Bridge was just what his manager wanted.

I don't think there was any question that Dunn would be ostracized him from the side and made to sit on the bench. A good David Dunn picks himself in the starting line-up.

And that's how it should be, dispute or not dispute.

Another Premiership duo not seeing eye to eye right now are Sir Alex Ferguson and David Beckham, fuelled by THAT dressing room incident. He was later angered by the fact his star midfielder would not travel back from England's recent friendly against Australia at Upton Park after being substituted along with the rest of the starting line-up at half-time.

Close to being enemy number one, he deflected attention away from himself by revealing Sven Goran Eriksson was offered the United job six months before last summer's World Cup.

A clever move - as was keeping Beckham in his starting line-up after speculation that he would be sidelined and even on the verge of quitting United.

It's not unusual for players and managers to argue - just common sense not to let disagreements damage the job in hand.