Roberto Mancini is the last unbeaten manager in the Premier League this season.
Manchester City is only two points behind leader Chelsea, yet rarely does a day pass without a new row, controversy, showdown talks or transfer speculation engulfing the Italian.
The beat reporters covering the English champion are never short of stories; indeed they could probably survive just on Mario Balotelli. Mancini, comforted by the cushion of a five-year contract, has the skin of an armadillo and does not give a hoot what is said or written about him.