LONDON (Reuters) – When it comes to shooting themselves in the foot, Manchester City have had few rivals over the last 40 years and the messy sacking of Roberto Mancini on Monday showed the club’s DNA still has a self-destructive strand.

Mancini was hired by the club’s mega-rich Abu Dhabi owners in 2009 to turn City into serious contenders for silverware on a regular basis and the suave Italian did just that.

LONDON, May 14 (Reuters) – When it comes to shooting themselves in the foot, Manchester City have had few rivals over the last 40 years and the messy sacking of Roberto Mancini on Monday showed the club’s DNA still has a self-destructive strand.

Mancini was hired by the club’s mega-rich Abu Dhabi owners in 2009 to turn City into serious contenders for silverware on a regular basis and the suave Italian did just that.

LONDON (Reuters) – Roberto Mancini was sacked by Manchester City on Monday, a year after leading the club out of the shadow of Manchester United and to their first English league title since 1968.

Following is a brief summary of the highs and lows of Mancini’s three and a half seasons in charge.

LONDON (Reuters) – Roberto Mancini was sacked by Manchester City on Monday, a year after leading the club out of the shadow of Manchester United and to their first English league title since 1968.

Following is a brief summary of the highs and lows of Mancini’s three and a half seasons in charge.

LONDON, May 14 (Reuters) – Roberto Mancini was sacked by Manchester City on Monday, a year after leading the club out of the shadow of Manchester United and to their first English league title since 1968.

Following is a brief summary of the highs and lows of Mancini’s three and a half seasons in charge.

LONDON (Reuters) – The America’s Cup will remain an irresistible lure for the world’s top Olympic sailors despite the tragic death of British gold medalist Andrew Simpson on Thursday.

Royal Yacht Association (RYA) Olympic manager Stephen Park expressed his devastation at the news that 36-year-old Simpson had died when the huge AC72 multi-hull craft in which he was crewing capsized during an America’s Cup trial in San Francisco.

LONDON (Reuters) – The British sailing community was mourning the death of Olympic champion Andrew Simpson after the 36-year-old drowned when his vessel capsized in San Francisco Bay during training for the America’s Cup on Thursday.

Simpson, who won gold at the Beijing Olympics in 2008, died when he became trapped as giant catamaran the Artemis, Sweden’s entry in the America’s Cup, overturned.

LONDON, May 10 (Reuters) – The British sailing community was mourning the death of Olympic champion Andrew Simpson after the 36-year-old drowned when his vessel capsized in San Francisco Bay during training for the America’s Cup on Thursday.

Simpson, who won gold at the Beijing Olympics in 2008, died when he became trapped as giant catamaran the Artemis, Sweden’s entry in the America’s Cup, overturned.

LONDON (Reuters) – David Moyes, who spent 11 years keeping a reliable old family saloon roadworthy with spare parts and loose change, is poised to get the keys to a huge red Rolls Royce loaded with cash.

The 50-year-old’s imminent appointment as Alex Ferguson’s successor as Manchester United manager represents a gargantuan step for the plain-talking Scot who failed to win any silverware for Everton in more than a decade of hard graft on Merseyside.

LONDON (Reuters) – David Moyes, who spent 11 years keeping a reliable old family saloon roadworthy with spare parts and loose change, is poised to get the keys to a huge red Rolls Royce loaded with cash.

The 50-year-old’s imminent appointment as Alex Ferguson’s successor as Manchester United manager represents a gargantuan step for the plain-talking Scot who failed to win any silverware for Everton in more than a decade of hard graft on Merseyside.