Prestwich_Blue said:
de niro said:
Both very good posts. We have moved on but don't anyone try and tell me pellers is an upgrade on bobby. It's pretty obvious he's not.
I shouldn't have to tell a fellow mod and Bluemoon's leading WUM that we don't want to get into a Mancini v Pellegrini debate again. In their different ways, they're both very good managers but neither are without their faults.
I don't agree with kazzydeyna that people who saw Mancini's faults are of the Colin Shindler tendency. No City fan should or will ever forget or be less than grateful for where he took us but neither should they underestimate the issues behind the scenes that were of his making. There was utter carnage behind the scenes and unfortunately something had to give. That's certainly high among the reasons why he would never be back while the current ownership is in place.
But when all that's said and done, January 2010 to May 2013 saw some of the most memorable moments of my not inconsiderable years as a City fan. Perhaps very few, if any, other managers could have done what he did for us at that time so he was probably the right man in the right place at the right time.
I didn't make it clear in my post, I certainly wasn't suggesting that all who were against Mancini were Colin schindlers, or even that the majority of them were.
But I do believe that a sizeable minority of them (they know who they are) ARE a little Schindler-esque, for the reasons I stated earlier.
You only have to wonder why some of the anti-Mancini crowd were so enamoured with Hughes. In my view it is because Hughes wasn't a threat to little City. If he'd stayed for much longer he would possibly have derailed the whole project. Certainly he would have further ingrained the image of our being "the club for cock ups" (all that money spent and still shit).
I always have a mental image of them, dressed like Paul Calf, deliberately exaggerating their manc accent, constantly calling people "our kid", a bit like Kevin and Perry when they went to Manchester that time.
They're hilarious.
