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Roberto Mancini's instructions when he joined Manchester City in December of 2009 may well have been simply "win something, anything at all, to start putting City back on the map." Within 14 months he had delivered, placing the FA Cup in the City trophy cabinet for the first time in 40 years. By the time he'd added the Premier League, City's first title triumph for 44 years, City's place in the new football firmament was well on its way to being secured.