Fergies mind games

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Worked a treat on Sunday wtf, do you think they will have any effect on Bobby at all?
 
I think Roberto is big enough to be his own man and to just let it all just flow off a sick swans back!!!

But seriously, Roberto Mancini is not a Kevin Keegan or a Rafa Benitez, he knows he is good and he has the self confidence to ignore whatever SAF says about us.

My admiration for Roberto was boosted the night I was at the supporters meeting where he said he would drive the bus down the Mancunian Way to pull down that banner!
 
its in the press already(wrighty in the sun) that fergie will use his mind games to topple bobby. not a chance it will be the other way around.
 
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepag...erguson-will-make-Roberto-Mancini-suffer.html

Ian Wright (wtf did we do to him anyway - we always revered Shauny), thinks Fergie's mind games will get to Mancini

ROBERTO MANCINI is about to face his toughest ever test as a manager — dealing with Alex Ferguson's mind games.
Kevin Keegan cracked under the pressure when taking on Fergie while even Arsene Wenger has struggled at times over the years.

But after Sunday's unbelievable win at Old Trafford, Mancini will find himself in a position he has never experienced as the old master uses every tactic in the book.

On a weekly basis, Ferguson will now look to pile the pressure on City and increase the expectation of the club's supporters.

Mancini has managed Fiorentina, Lazio and Inter Milan — three big clubs. But in Serie A, he never had someone like Fergie chipping away at his pre-match Press conferences. (like he tried before the Derby stating they'd played all the big teams. Worked a treat that, didn't it Fergie?!!)

I'm a massive fan of the United manager and his team. They will definitely recover from this hammering.

You can be guaranteed that Fergie will keep stressing that the title is City's to lose. They are the favourites. That United have a long way to go to catch City.

City, and I don't like this term noisy neighbours by the way, are in a terrific place right now.

But they know that if they make any slips, then United will be right there breathing down their necks.

Mancini's men still have to go to Liverpool, Chelsea and Arsenal and win. (United also have to go to Arsenal, Chelsea, Tottenham & to us!)

And Mancini faces a battle to deal with the fact that many City fans now EXPECT to win the title even though there is a long way to go.

A bit like Jose Mourinho, I think Mancini has a lot of respect for Fergie so I'm not sure whether they'll have any verbal spats over the season.

But you can be sure, when the time is right, Fergie will lob the odd grenade towards City's training ground.

I didn't think United played to their normal levels. (Tw@t) but you cannot take anything away from City. They were absolutely brilliant

Jonny Evans' sending off was crucial with the score still 1-0 but we saw some awesome performances by James Milner, Yaya Toure, David Silva, Micah Richards and Mario Balotelli. I think City would still have won regardless of that decision.

City didn't fear United, which I loved, and this result will never, ever be forgotten by both sets of fans.

But Mancini's players now face this major test over whether they can maintain the consistency you need to win the title.

United's training ground will be an interesting place over these coming days, weeks and months.

They will put everything into getting things right and you can be sure they'll be prepared when they make the short trip to play the return at the Etihad Stadium on April 28. That will be a fantastic match.

If I am going to criticise United for one thing, it was for the way they attacked City despite playing with 10 men. Particularly when they were 3-0 down.

OK, they scored once but then let three more in, so the result had a massive impact on their goal difference.

You have to remember that when Arsenal pipped Liverpool to the title back in 1989 it was not just on goal difference, but on goals SCORED.

I still believe this year will be incredibly tight and the championship could go down to the final game.

So United could regret Sunday if the title is decided on goal difference.

I don't understand why they didn't put all their men behind the ball and keep the score down. It should have been a damage-limitation exercise.


So their tactics didn't make sense whatsoever and it was out of character for an Alex Ferguson team.

I'm sure there were a few interesting conversations in the workplace yesterday between rival supporters.

Yet as United fans will all have pointed out, they have not won 19 top-flight titles by falling to pieces after one bad result.

For City, the war has only just started. And for Mancini, the mind games are just around the corner.
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I don't thing Bob had much to do with it.
For example, when you look at the performance of Richards, he went out to destroy Wellbeck and Young and totally succeeded.
Even in the last minute he attempted to put Wellbeck into the stand.
 
Baconface's pathetic "we have played all the top sides now" qoute the week before the derby backfired didn't it? Tear it out of the paper and put it up on the dressing room wall and there's your team talk!!!
 
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