Fire the Loser!

Roberto Mancini is still the manager, at Man. City?

Even after that sorry display, this afternoon?

Wow!

For the life of me, I can't understand why...
(I can only speculate that they're trying to go for an Alex-ferguson kind of management deal. That's stupid! Look at Arsenal and Wenger. That kind of attempt only works for a specific kind of team. Keeping the same manager forever is dumb, unless that manager has many, many political kind of relations going on. And he can look down on referees and officials, and such. You know, like Ferguson. Mancini is nowhere near that kind of status.)

So, getting back to regular managers:
In my opinion, whenever a big team messes up a derby in such a pathetic way, at home, going down early, and suffering the entire match, and ending up losing almost right at the final whistle, the manager has got to go! (Right then and there. No more second chances!)
There's no two ways about it.

If I had that power, I wouldn't even think twice: I would show that coach the door and rip his contract right after the final whistle.
Because if you're not going to perform, against your biggest rival, at home, in one of the biggest match of the year, and maybe of your career, too, you're just not good enough.

Mancini proved good enough last year, but this year...

Very much like Roberto Di Matteo, Roberto Mancini forgot that his team needs reinforcements over the summer, before a new season. Proper reinforcements, not second-rate newcomers like Hazard/Zabaleta, Oscar/Maicon or Moses/Nastasic.
You can't just get some little-known players and expect the best results.
Hasn't the case of Arsenal's downfall already showed that if one is a cheap bastard one will not win anything anymore, in English football?

Also, just like Di Matteo's Chelsea, Mancini's Man. City lost its first match of the season against the team they needed to beat the most. Exactly like Chelsea, if they cannot rise to the challenge in the most important encounter of the battle for the league supremacy, then something is rotten to the core.
The one(s) who cannot fix that rot has(/have) got to go first, and then somebody who can fix it should step in.

Now, the title chase is probably over. It's United's to lose, really.

Stupid English title challengers, with their Christmas-losers mentality! They did it again.

And, thus, another league loses its appeal. No more EPL for a while. (The difference between first and second teams in the standings is bigger than 5 points.)

By the way, from a neutral standpoint, you, no matter who you are, gotta admit: Any league in which second and third in the standings lose to first in the standings, at home, messing up their unbeaten records in the process, too, is shit.
That season in that league has all the makings to turn out to be garbage. Thinking ahead, it's probable that Man. U. will win the home games, too. And nobody wants to see a season in which a team wins the title by more than 10 points, except for the fans of that team, right?

And, finally, to bash Man. City even more, which is what they deserve right now, it needs to be admitted:
Seeing Manchester City falling down 0-2, to a couple of the shittiest goals that Man. U. ever scored, and seeing how their supposed best just wasn't enough in the most important match they played this fall, I realized that it was no accident that City was eliminated from European competitions, altogether, already.
They have no good forward, and their defence is leaking terribly.
And just how the hell have they come to rely now on a no-name like Zabaleta?
Last season, they had that incredible run of fourteen games, and still they needed luck and goal difference to take the title!... This year, I'd be surprised if they come within ten points of it!