City and Mancini not for changing

THERE may be a growing sense at Eastlands that the end is nigh for manager Roberto Mancini – at least, it felt that way when the Italian was jeered by the majority of the stadium as he took off Carlos Tevez late in this latest drab stalemate – but all evidence points to the contrary.

Worse yet, for that growing army of City supporters who believe that the club has not and cannot progress with the cautious Mancini at the helm, there is no evidence that their leader will change his ways as he attempts to steer the club into the promised land of next season’s Champions League.

To hear Mancini claim, as he did after the Birmingham game, that the problem his club currently has is that, apart from Tevez, they have nobody capable of scoring a goal bordered on the surreal.