Balotelli exposes Mancini’s fatal flaw

Forget the midweek sideshows that only tease the blue half of Manchester with cruel hope; we now know that Roberto Mancini is doomed to failure at City.

The boy Aristotle — a better Greek reader of the game than Theo Zagorakis — tells us so.

You might recall, back in October, the moment we knew Mick McCarthy’s race was as good as run in Wolverhampton. It was, of course, the day Mick eyed the forgotten, regurgitated cake on the Wolves terraces and suggested a goodly proportion of those fans were ‘mindless idiots’.