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Roberto Mancini feels Joe Hart's cockiness helps the Manchester City goalkeeper

Image: Joe Hart: Cockiness is an asset, according to Manchester City boss Roberto Mancini

Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini believes that Joe Hart being "cocky" helps the goalkeeper perform at the top level.

He added: "Joe is strong enough for this. He knows he is one of the best but if you want to continue to be the best you should work very hard. "Everyone can make a mistake, it is impossible to be perfect. Only Mario is perfect every day!" Meanwhile, the Italian believes that there should be the provision to move non-televised Premier League games from Saturdays to Sundays if there are delays like those suffered by his England players during the week. "I think sometimes when this situation happens we can move our game from Saturday to Sunday. This is easy because we are not on TV and we play at three o'clock Saturday. "But I am not disappointed. I am worried because Joe, James, Joleon...today [Friday] is the first day training and we play tomorrow."

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