Mancini

So Mancini has been sacked. I was a Man City fan and growing up in the 1990s, Man City was not the easiest team to support. So if you told me one day we would have a manager who would, in three seasons, win the Premiership, FA Cup and Charity Shield, only to sack him, I would have been stunned. But that's what has happened. Including FA Cup Semi-finals, City have been to Wembley six times in three seasons. I remember scrambling for a ticket to the 1999 third flight play off final against Gillingham, because I thought that would be the only time I would see them there. How times change.

Pope Francis

In my last blog, I predicted that the next Pope would be from the global south. I also said the Italian cardinals would want an Italian to 'win back' the papacy that they dominated for 400 years but then lost twice in a row in 1978 and 2005. As it turns out, the new Pope pleased everyone - he is from the global south, and is an ethnic Italian. And they say you can't please everyone?