SAF vs Mancini

It is. BTW, have all previous United managers stayed in the job for over 25 years?

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Matt Busby did 25 in two spells of 24+1

19 managers in Uniteds history - I think MCFC are on manager number 45, or the 20th management change in 28 years...

Please feel free to question the last statement, I'm counting from John Benson.

It is. BTW, have all previous United managers stayed in the job for over 25 years?

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Matt Busby did 25 in two spells of 24+1

19 managers in Uniteds history - I think MCFC are on manager number 45, or the 20th management change in 28 years...

Please feel free to question the last statement, I'm counting from John Benson.

How the hell did get that there twice?

I heard you the first time.

i dont know about Mancini being better than Fergie [ or Busby] it's much too early to say...

but he definatly is a better manager than Wilf Mc [ hic]Guinness, Frank [ roll out red] O'Farrell and
Dave [ misery] Sexton

And he's a better manager than

Malcolm Allison
Johnny Hart
Tony Book
Ron Saunders
Tony Book again (league cup)
Malcolm Allison again
Tony Book yet again
John Bond
John Benson
Billy McNeill
Jimmy Frizzell
Mel Machin
Tony Book once more
Howard Kendall
Peter Reid
Tony Book is sick of this job
Brian Horton
Alan Ball
Asa Hartford
Steve Coppell
Phil Neal
Frank Clark
Joe Royle
Kevin Keegan
Stuart Pearce
Sven
Mark Hughes

i know those names............ they all look very familiar...but i dont need wikipedia to check the list of our old managers.

ps, Brian Horton was a good lad..he kept us smiling, that's proberly why Peter Swales got his henchman Maddocks to sack him.

Ripleys_Cat (U1352) : "Which would you say is more suited to describing 3rd place? At "the top of the table", or in the "lower parts of the league"?"

wll oc course it's not the top; the top is number one, only one team can be at the top, and that team is Manchester United. And 3rd is elf-evidently lower than 1st. The point is that it is not a simple progression, first place is at the apex of the entire football league structure, and each step further up is increasingly more competitive. Man City have never yet been serious candidates for the top position.

"The usual scenario (FA Cup Semi-Finals aside) being win at wembley and you win a trophy"

So what, when the FA Cup Final was held in Cardiff the teams never really won anything? If your point is that they City a trophy, say so - where it was is irrelevant... oh, but of course you already made that point... so in essence you are simply trying to count that twice!


Boris Inky Gibson (U5901) :
"it's a bit silly (and certainly premature) to start comparing Mancini to Ferguson"

I agree; it is totally unfair on Mancini to compare him to a man who has spent a lifetime in management and won just about everything there is to win.

"I could also have added that United relinquished their hold on the Carling Cup and said that was another indicator of Fergie losing his touch"


But I'm sure you wouldn't dream of exposing yourself to the inevitable ridicule that making such a criticism of a manager who in the same season regained his almost perennial grip on the Premiership title would elicit.

"wll oc course it's not the top"

And it's certainly not in the lower parts of the league. And the bottom line is we are not talking about a progression in the lower parts of the league when it comes to City and United last season are we?

"So what, when the FA Cup Final was held in Cardiff the teams never really won anything?"

Now you're just being stupid. What does "usual" mean? As in "the usual scenario"?

"but of course you already made that point... so in essence you are simply trying to count that twice"

I hadn't made that point. Boris stated it. And he went on to say that it was somewhat tongue-in-cheek.

"i know those names............ they all look very familiar...but i dont need wikipedia to check the list of our old managers."

That is merely the list of your mangers since Joe Mercer.