Mancini: If I was English they’d be praising me to the skies

Roberto Mancini is a man under pressure to win and win well against Wigan in Saturday’s FA Cup final.

Outpointed in the Premier League and knocked out in the first round in Europe, Manchester City are left with the FA Cup as a consolation, but Mancini insists the pressure is entirely down to the media.

“If I was English they’d be praising me to the skies,” he told the Gazzetta dello Sport, “but I’m Italian and so they’re hypercritical.