Mancini interviewed by Micah

Psychedelic Casual said:
Bobby turned us into what we’ve become today… winners!

To be fair to Hughes, he had us doing well at times. We started to take it to Arsenal under him, and stood toe-to-toe with United a number of times. He just couldn’t get us consistent enough. For every game we raised it and looked as good as the top sides, we also looked bloody awful against others especially those down the bottom.

What Bobby brought to us was a winning mentality. Games stopped being things we hoped to win, they became things we must win and we should win, and drawing and especially losing are not good enough for this football club. A mentality where you don’t just raise your game against the big sides, you have that raised level at all times, in training all week and no matter who we play. That’s the mentality of winners.

He took us back to being a big club for the first time in decades. It doesn’t bother me in the slightest that he fell out with people, or wasn’t very nice to them full stop, and left under a bit of a cloud… I think his attitude is what made us winners, and if he needed to upset a few people along the way to finally rid us of anything that was still lingering at this club from the Swales era, then so be it. You don’t wipe a losers mentality away without being a ruthless personality.

We wouldn’t be what we are today without Bobby. I still absolutely love the man!
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In his first successful stint Malcolm Allison was not exactly "Mr Nice Guy." He famously knocked Tony Coleman out when he caught him in a night club (was it Fagins?).
 
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