Happy birthday Roberto Mancini

bluealf said:
Read a newspaper report yesterday that said Mankers had turned down the rags, I hope that is actually true and if not true I will just believe it was for the laugh lol

Legend.
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I would doubt that the rags would ever consider Bobby Manc as their Manager whilst Baconface is alive. They know that at the first bit of interference Bobby would tell him to fcuk off. Anyway, I would hope that Bobby would have enough principles and respect for us Blues to not be interested in the slightest. He's too good for that shit show of a club.
 
BlueInsomniac said:
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Pep has obviously won more and is a bigger legend here, but Bobby Manc will always be my favorite City manager. Being a kid in the 90s I never thought I see us win anything. I thought that 2002 season under Keegan was as good as it would ever get, until 2011. Winning that first FA cup trophy in my lifetime is still my greatest feeling in football. The season after I remember being at Blackburn early October-ish and we scored 3/4 that day and I remember thinking we'd win the league. He was let down badly in the cup final in 2013 by the players who he'd sadly lost at that point. Will be grateful for everything he ever did at the club, and making them rag cunts rip that banner down!
 
Blue tiger said:
Pep has obviously won more and is a bigger legend here, but Bobby Manc will always be my favorite City manager. Being a kid in the 90s I never thought I see us win anything. I thought that 2002 season under Keegan was as good as it would ever get, until 2011. Winning that first FA cup trophy in my lifetime is still my greatest feeling in football. The season after I remember being at Blackburn early October-ish and we scored 3/4 that day and I remember thinking we'd win the league. He was let down badly in the cup final in 2013 by the players who he'd sadly lost at that point. Will be grateful for everything he ever did at the club, and making them rag cunts rip that banner down!
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100% this.
 
youngbob said:
The right man at the right time.

Never enjoyed following City as much as I did during the 10/11 and 11/12 seasons.

My favourite City manager.
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Just read this and thought "Yeah, that sums up how I feel about Mancini". Turns out it's my own words, lmao.

I think with all the glory Pep has brought us, the job Mancini did at City has been forgotten a bit. Not by us, just by younger City fans and the media. I guess it was almost 15 years ago now and time marches on. But Pep, as much as he didn't come into a title-winning team, came into a club that had experienced some success and had been built with the expectation that he would one day be the man to make us globally popular and one of the biggest, most decorated clubs in the world. Pep has instilled an elite mentality. But I think the job he had, taking us from a team with some experience of silverware (on the edges of the elite) to the next level, was easier than the job Mancini had.

Mancini walked into a club that finally a had a bit money to play with but no real focus on how to turn cash into trophies. We were still a frightened club that had lived in United's shadow for 20-ish years. He got a big taste of that inferiority complex in his first few derbies - with those last-minute defeats and the Rooney overhead kick - and I think he took it upon himself to take the pessimism and weaknesses instilled by years of underachievement and relegation and crush it. That 35 years banner at Old Trafford gave Mancini and the players a target. Something to focus on and achieve, just win a trophy and get that banner down. By the time he left we were on a par with United and heading beyond them long-term.

Things ended badly. I did want him out after the Wigan FA Cup final - our style of play had become far too predictable and narrow and he was clashing with more players than we knew about at the time - but not in the way it went. He deserved that one last FA Cup final with the players fully committed to his plans, and he'd have been able to walk away with his head held high, knowing he'd achieved his mission and then some. As it was, it kind of ended like a toxic teenage first love, where Mancini and the City fans took years to get over each other after a fiery break-up. I think it took until the Centurions season or even the domestic treble season for us to move on.
 
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youngbob said:
Just read this and thought "Yeah, that sums up how I feel about Mancini". Turns out it's my own words, lmao.

I think with all the glory Pep has brought us, the job Mancini did at City has been forgotten a bit. Not by us, just by younger City fans and the media. I guess it was almost 15 years ago now and time marches on. But Pep, as much as he didn't come into a title-winning team, came into a club that had experienced some success and had been built with the expectation that he would one day be the man to make us globally popular and one of the biggest, most decorated clubs in the world. Pep has instilled an elite mentality. But I think the job he had, taking us from a team with some experience of silverware (on the edges of the elite) to the next level, was easier than the job Mancini had.

Mancini walked into a club that finally a had a bit money to play with but no real focus on how to turn cash into trophies. We were still a frightened club that had lived in United's shadow for 20-ish years. He got a big taste of that inferiority complex in his first few derbies - with those last-minute defeats and the Rooney overhead kick - and I think he took it upon himself to take the pessimism and weaknesses instilled by years of underachievement and relegation and crush it. That 35 years banner at Old Trafford gave Mancini and the players a target. Something to focus on and achieve, just win a trophy and get that banner down. By the time he left we were on a par with United and heading beyond them long-term.

Things ended badly. I did want him out after the Wigan FA Cup final - our style of play had become far too predictable and narrow and he was clashing with more players than we knew about at the time - but not in the way it went. He deserved that one last FA Cup final with the players fully committed to his plans, and he'd have been able to walk away with his head held high, knowing he'd achieved his mission and then some. As it was, it kind of ended like a toxic teenage first love, where Mancini and the City fans took years to get over each other after a fiery break-up. I think it took until the Centurions season or even the domestic treble season for us to move on.
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I agree with most of that but Garry Cook deserves a lot of credit for the transformation of the club's attitude and mentality too.

Another guy who doesn't get the credit he deserves from a lot of people and who was shoved out of the back door because his face didn't fit anymore.
 
Johnny Mars Bar said:
I agree with most of that but Garry Cook deserves a lot of credit for the transformation of the club's attitude and mentality too.

Another guy who doesn't get the credit he deserves from a lot of people and who was shoved out of the back door because his face didn't fit anymore.
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Well, that email didn't help him, unfortunately but he does deserve a lot more credit than he got.
 
Johnny Mars Bar said:
Convenient excuse to get rid of him so the new guard could take over.

That email was far less damaging than the Super League fiasco but that twat Sorriano was never in danger of losing his job.
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When he left Birmingham, my local club had been overtaken by Americans, I was kind of hoping they would go all out for him and he would help them the same as City and Birmingham, they didn't and kept the feckless twat the old regime had in place, lot's of expensive purchases on big money and two relegations later and Mark Hughes as manager and non league football, sigh lol

The opposite of Wrexham
 
The man who gave Ferguson nightmares. The semi final win in 2011 was an earthquake moment no one saw coming. The subsequent cup win made us all believe again and remind us we followed one of England's top clubs not perennial struggelers. The league win the following year and the manner of it's achievement was every City fans wet dream. Ferguson reduced to putting out aside to hang on for a draw in the Derby, which blew up in his face. Even Uniteds cup win that year was small consolation, a three goal lead almost blown against ten men after one of the most ridiculous sending offs I've ever seen. Even Uniteds final league title was diminished by a beating at OT by Mancinis City. I don't know what led to his dismissal but he was my favourite ever manager and I was watching us under Joe Mercer. So happy birthday Bobby and f**k you Fergie.
 
youngbob said:
The right man at the right time.

Never enjoyed following City as much as I did during the 10/11 and 11/12 seasons.

My favourite City manager.
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Absolutely. He put the pride back into the club and fought our corner. His toe to toe with Ferguson at our place was an iconic moment. He also said he would tear that hated banner down and he did. It's a shame it went pear shaped at the end but for a couple of years it was magical.
 
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