The glue that binds Manchester City together is Roberto Mancini's goal :: Mmegi Online

what were the odds, before Tuesday night, of seeing one of the most urbane and sophisticated coaches in world football, a man with a taste for Bentleys and hand-made shoes, reduced to impersonating the ashen-faced caricature of Private Eye's Ron Knee?

As he coped with the insubordination of his leading goalscorer, Roberto Mancini may have wished he were in charge of the deadbeats and has-beens of Neasden FC rather than some of the prima donnas currently wearing the shirts of the richest club in the world.

On the morning after the bust-up in Munich, Carlos Tevez issued a statement in which he said sorry to everyone except the man who really deserved an apology. Mancini's own words immediately after the match summed up the disgust of a manager who had seen his authority flouted in the most public fashion: "Do you think at Bayern Munich a player would ever behave like this? At Milan?

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The glue that binds Manchester City together is Roberto Mancini's goal

what were the odds, before Tuesday night, of seeing one of the most urbane and sophisticated coaches in world football, a man with a taste for Bentleys and hand-made shoes, reduced to impersonating the ashen-faced caricature of Private Eye's Ron Knee?

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