Furious Pearce blasts his City slackers

Man City 0 Middlesbrough 1

An hour into a fourth Premiership reverse on the trot, Pearce opted to introduce Kiki Musampa for Stephen Ireland and found the move greeted with widespread booing.

The spontaneous outburst was more to do with Pearce’s failure to remove hapless Antoine Sibierski from the fray than any massive overview of the former England man’s managerial skills.