““Mancini really is magic,” proclaims The Sun newspaper, and others agree. Since Roberto Mancini replaced Mark Hughes as manager of Manchester City, the world’s richest football club, City have won four games straight. There are whispers that the flaxen-haired Italian might even win the Premier League. Stefan Szymanski and I argue in our book Soccernomics that few club managers have any effect on their teams’ performances.” (FI – Simon Kuper)