I love him. No city manager before or since has come close to meaning as much as he does to me.
The perfect manager at the time. He took on the bullying Scottish wanker and saw him off. He took on the malaise at city that had been there for decades that lived by the mantra "if we can fuck this situation up, we will".
Turned us into winners and won games by sheer force of personality.
But no songs tonight please. We have a manager and whatever frustrations he may have caused some of us - including myself - I don't agree with singing for another manager.
But whatever the next few years bring us be in no doubt that none of it would be happening if not for the foundations laid down by Mancini.
But he is the past. Pep is the future.
Fuerza Pep.